Mix-medium installation questioning the role of institutional power and its relationship with individuals. Exhibited in Abject Gallery, Breeze Creatives, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2015

The Reversible Future

Projection installations as a part of Northern Landscapes: Picture Poems, as a part of Newcastle Poetry Festival, 2015, Newcastle Upon Tyne upon Tyne.

Northern Landscapes: Picture Poems 

Immersive video installation exploring self-narratives on urban immigration, re-location and fragmented identities. Exhibited at Newcastle University 2017 
Photo: Collin Davis and Qi  Colbert

The Outsiders, 2017

Video projection installation exploring the place identity and dislocation. Exhibited at Newcastle University, 2015

By No Definition

Mix-medium collage drawing, 59.2 x 41.8 cm, 2020

Union and Re-union

Mix-medium collage drawing, 32 x 59.3 cm, 2020

The Magnificent Pillow Story  (a pair)

Observation

Drawing is a process of self-reflection, particularly on the moments and memories that leave a mark on my mind and that I have not had a chance to digest in daily life. Inspired by a childhood life event to rescue my flooded primary school decades ago, my drawing attempts to configure the dislocated fragments of memories into a ‘modified memory’, a re-creation of the drama. It celebrates the ambiguity of pictorial narrative by mingling what I saw and what I felt by accommodating surreal elements in the free-expanding compositions. 

The Summer End Shower, pen and ink on paper, 24.0 x 32.0 cm, 2011

The drawing is a stream of consciousness reflecting on fragmented memories of urbanisation and social dislocation. It attempts to pick up the lost fragments of memories of past lives and values, merging with the new, contemporary and rebellious emotions. Across a week, I used pencil line drawing to capture random shapes and forming unexpected structures. Together the shapes, lines and marks interweave into a net to filter and condense the forgotten and lost parts of our urban history. 

The Conflux, pencil on paper, 42.0 x 59.4cm, 2019


The Shoal, explores and tests the possibilities of expanded line drawing in expressing the neglected, marginalised and fragmented memories of a close-knit community affected by the ongoing rapid and dramatic social changes in metropolitans. Inspired by industrial and urban ruins, dislocations and re-settlement, the work collects, configures and gives meanings to the missing links between the old and the new. Drawn using a free-flowing stream of consciousness, a web of fragmented memories is formed and expanded; creating a discursive narrative that strives to make sense of a past cultural and social dislocation. 

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