Pamela Leung - Artist blog

Pamela Leung 15 – 24 June 2017 Thursday-Saturday, 2-6pm Opening - Thursday 15 June, 6-8pm Artist in Gallery - Sunday 18 June, 2-6pm Factory 49, 49 Shepherd Street, Marrickville. Knot - connected - joint - crowd - security - bond - weaving - tie. As a member of a diaspora, we can often feel a knot in the stomach, arising from a lack of bonding and connection with people and space in our everyday life. This is a creative language drawn from Pamela Leung's personal experience with different cultures. As many other transnational migrants, Pamela made her journey to Australia from Hong Kong in the 70s. Her artwork explores the experience of a member of the Chinese diaspora, many of whom have left their homeland to seek new lives, and opportunities in different parts of the world.

After being quite intense for the last 2 weeks to do all the preparation for the exhibition! I feel excited to start the installation tomorrow! The opening is on Wednesday, 8 February at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre. Hope the installation is going to be great!

Only three weeks to go for my second solo exhibition in Hong Kong! The exhibition is at VA! Hong Kong Visual Art Centre from 9-13th February 2017. Opening on Wednesday 8 February 6.30-8.30pm. At the moment is right into all the processing and problems solving, very intense but a lot of excitement! Please visit the new social media project, which is part of this exhibition, '此時此刻 Moment of Red' on Face Book -  https://www.facebook.com/%E6%9C%B1%E8%B5%A4%E7%B4%85-Shades-of-Red-1131678770262502/

Opening: Friday 9th December, 6-8pm Artists' Talk: Saturday 17th December 3-5pm Open Hours: Friday-Sunday 11-5pm, 10-24th December 2016 "it's knot just me, it's us" A performing, participatory installation. Robes and fabrics. Dimension variable. Knot - connection - joint - crowd - security - a bond - weaving - tie.  As a member of a diaspora, we can often feel a knot in the stomach, arising from a lack of bonding and connection with people and space in our everyday life. Please help me to knot, to connect, to join, to tie and to untie the knot....

'Please feel free to walk on the eggshells', I was really happy to see a lot of audiences participated during the exhibition. This is a long process work. Those thousands and thousands of eggshells were collected over two years from bakery, cafes and friends. The cleaning process of the eggshells is meditative but painful.  By the end of the exhibition, all the eggshells got trampling into pieces.

The end exhibition for my art studies at National Art School, what a journey! I'm going to miss the school a lot!  Please come and join us to celebrate, it's going to be a great show!

It is a great pleasure to be invited by KWASS (Korean Women's Art Society Sydney) to participate in their exhibition of 'Wonder + Woman' celebrating the 10 year 'birthday'. This exhibition is a good opportunity to share the art and life of migrant women to the wider Australian public. There are 36 member artists and 10 multicultural migrant artists exhibiting.          Invitation      'Diaspora 2016' cotton on rice paper, 100cm x 100cm.         'Diaspora 2016' closed up. All the artists.    

Installation and performance. Link to the documentary of the exhibition,  https://youtu.be/h2AaP51usI8

This is an article written by Out Of Stock, and published in Tao Magazine on 27th June 2016 Vol. 258.

A big thank you to the talented Hong Kong artist, Jovial Yeung, who has invited me to exhibit in what will be my first solo show in Hong Kong. I can't begin to say how excited I am to exhibit a new work, Two -Way Street II, in my home town. Two-Way Street ll is a new work extended from Two-Way Street (2015). Using every day found objects, from different parts of the world, I have created an installation that explores the complex nature of mutual communication within human relationships. The fine balance of give and take in a relationship is at the heart of this work.  The exhibition will be held at Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, from 2nd - 6th of July. The opening is on Saturday 2nd of July from 3-5pm, and will include a short performance at the start. Details are in the poster below.