Au Hoi Lam

Au Hoi Lam (Chinese: 區凱琳; born 1978 in Hong Kong) is a Chinese painter. She has won several awards including the Nokia Arts Awards (2000) [1][2] and the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013 – Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts).[3]

Biography

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Au earned a Bachelor of Arts (2001) and a Master of Philosophy (2009) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[3] In 2004 she debuted her catalogue Au Hoi Lam Painting Journal,[4] as well as establishing her studio Tone Quarters in Fo Tan.[5] She established studio Qiáng also in Fo Tan in 2010, with artists Tsang Chui-mei, AMA, and Vivian Poon.[6] She is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.[3]

Art

Au's first solo exhibition was in November 1999 when she presented paintings at Shaw College. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in Hong Kong and at MoCA, Shanghai where she was selected to exhibit in Reversing Horizons,[7] where emerging contemporary artists reflected on the Hong Kong Handover for its 10th anniversary. She has also been part of group exhibitions in Hong Kong and South Korea. Au's works are documented in the Asia Art Archive. In 2006, Au showed works influenced by Guan Daosheng's poetry in the exhibition When Words are Sweet...Paintings by Au Hoi-lam at the Hong Kong Central Library.[8]

Au's painting style is delicate and her paintings typically take a long time to produce.[9] Her painting Handkerchief 86400 is typical of her meticulous approach to painting and featured 86,400 tiny squares, one coloured square for each second of a day.[10] Her figurative paintings look like children's drawings and often use faded, pale colors. Au also produces wall-hung mixed media art works that are autobiographical and address key family events. These include My Father is Over the Ocean, in which Au brought together paintings and installations made in response to her father's illness and death,[11][12] and Elsewhere (2011), which reveals the secret birth of her daughter.[13]

Au's paintings have been collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art.[14]

References

  1. ^ Nokia website: Nokia Inaugural Arts Awards displays winning creative works from students across Asia Pacific [1] Archived 2014-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Nokia art contest finalists selected by Emily Lam, South China Morning Post, 01 December, 2000 [2]
  3. ^ a b c "AU Hoi Lam | Department of Fine Arts, CUHK". www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk. Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ^ Archive, Asia Art. "Au Hoi Lam Painting Journal". Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  5. ^ "Artists in the Neighbourhood Scheme III". www.lcsd.gov.hk. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  6. ^ "randian: Au Hoi Lam: My Father is Over the Ocean". www.randian-online.com. Retrieved 2018-03-02.
  7. ^ "Reversing Horizons" Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary, <MoCA Shanghai website "MOCA Shanghai - Museum of Contemporary Art – Shanghai". Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  8. ^ "Exhibition displays paintings depicting sweet love". Leisure and Cultural Services Department. Archived from the original on March 15, 2014. Retrieved March 14, 2014.
  9. ^ "Au's works in the Asian Art Archive". Archived from the original on 2014-03-08. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  10. ^ Au Hoi-lam: 22 of our city’s best artists by Edmund Lee, Time Out, Hong Kong, 9 May 2012 [3] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ HONG KONG ART: Au Hoi-lam: My Father is Over the Ocean.
  12. ^ Interview: Au Hoi-lam by Edmund Lee, 12 May 2010, Time Out [4] Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine,
  13. ^ Grief in waves: Au Hoi-lam's moving eulogy to her father by John Batten, South China Morning Post, 14 May 2013. [5]
  14. ^ "Au Hoi Lam". Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2014.