193 高山流水 & 旅行記憶

麥雅端
高山流水 & 旅行記憶
水墨裐本
2024年
33 x 66 cm x 2

Artist Statement 

Born in Hong Kong, I graduated in Central St. Martins, U of Arts London in 2009 with a MA in full scholarship, and in 1999 with Degree of Fine Arts in U of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada whereby paintings follow western art world both in technique and in subject matter and materials.  My art incorporates elements of sewing, patchworks influenced from my childhood upbringing in Stanley village as a girl in different eras in the work. On the one hand, painting techniques from the modern period, from which I adopt the power of unconscious and childhood dreams. Growing up in the late 1980s with the Nipponese Neo-pop generation, I borrow contemporary popular elements of expression, such as Japanese “anime” (animation) and “manga” (comics) and American pop art. On the other hand, I m practicing contemporary ink art from Master Leung Kui Ting(梁巨廷), consistently challenge existing paradigms in classical Chinese and modern Western art to create new visual effects. I rework this diversity of influences into myriad artistic media and formats, art work ranging from paintings reminiscent of cartoons to figurine sculptures, giant inflatable installation.