Anna Chung 鍾倩薇

Chung Sin Mei Anna 鍾 倩 薇

As a modern Chinese woman living in Hong Kong, multiple roles and experience as a mother, daughter, and wife, make me reflect on my womanhood and inspire my artworks. My art practice is often intuitive, the outcomes often unpredictable. Every moment of conveying my thoughts is part of a open ended creative process. My artworks originate from the self and extend to the society. By exploring diferent materials and media (clay, ceramics, gold foil, lines, paints and various elements), I observed the women around me intently. I conducted in-depth interviews with them, engaging them in open, interactive art-making processes, thereby capturing the multi-faceted nature of women nurtured by the east-meet-west society of Hong Kong. Under the dual influences of traditional Chinese culture and Western independent spirit, Hong Kong Chinese women are a unique blend of apparent softness and inner strength. It is my intention, that the body of artworks developed, take into consideration and reflect; the individual and society, deconstruction to reconstruction, the self and the 'higher self'.

作為一位在香港生活的現代中國女性 工作 照顧家庭 身兼母親 女兒及妻子多職 女性 的身份認同及個人經歷引起我無窮反思 激發我的創作靈感 創作往往由個人直觀出發 結 果是不可預知的 我傳遞思想的每一刻都是沒有框架的創作一部分 我的創作源於自身 推 及社會 透過不同材料(粘土 陶瓷 金箔 線條 油漆和各種綜合元素) 多角度觀察及深 入採訪婦女 與其開放互動地協作藝術 捕捉香港這個中西薈萃的獨特環境所孕育的女性面 貌 香港的華人女性由於同時受中國傳統社會文化及西方獨立自主精神影響 普遍具有外柔 內剛 堅韌隱忍的特徵 我希望通過我的作品 將這趟從個人到社會 從解構到重建 從小 我到大我的藝術旅程展現出來

Hands of the Market Maker 1 (detail), 2015. Photographic print. 127mm × 178mm

The Market Maker 2 (with background), 2015. Photographic print. 127mm × 178mm

19 Bowls, I and young business women (Detail), 2016 Ceramic and glaze Dimensions variable 19 Bowls, Housewife (detail), 2016 Ceramic and glaze 80cm x 5.5cm x 8.5cm

Deconstructed Identity 1-3, 2016. IKEA Bowls, metal pins. Dimenison variable

Reconstructed Identity I, 2016 Ceramic, gold foil, wax 51cm x 58cm x 14cm