Biography
Pamela Leung is a Hong Kong Sydney-based artist, with a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School, 2016. Following this, Leung received the Emerging Artist Prize in the 65th Blake Prize 2018, as well as exhibiting globally in Australia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Sweden, Paris and London.
With her installation, video, sound, sculpture and painting, Pamela explores the routines of everyday life, relationships, connections, displacement and the diaspora. She shares her personal migratory experience with the audience, allowing them to reflect on ideas of identity and displacement. The colour red takes on a significant symbolic status in her work, representing the differing perspectives of Western and Eastern cultures; it is also the colour that runs through all people, no matter the colour of their skin and is used as a unifying force.
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Pamela Leung | Artist
Sydney, Australia
contact@pamelaleung.net | pamelaleung.net
EDUCATION
2016 Master of Fine Arts (Painting), National Art School, Sydney
2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Drawing), Sydney
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), National Art School, Sydney
2009 Cert IV in Fine Art, Brookvale TAFE, Sydney
AWARDS
2022 Finalist - HIDDEN Rookwood Sculpture 2022
2021 Finalist - Eden Unearthed: Art in the Garden 2021
2018 Winner - The 65th Blake Prize Emerging Artist Prize
RESIDENCIES
2023 Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK (2 weeks)
2020 Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studio, Lane Cove, Aus (1 year)
2019 Factory 49 Paris, Paris, France (1 month)
2018 Longxiang Ceramics, Jingdezhen, China (2 months)
2017 Taiwan International Exchange. Community Cultural Development Center, Yunlin County Vision Association, Taiwan (1 month)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Longing for home II Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK
2022 Longing for home Gallery Lane Cove, Sydney
2021 Shades of Red IV Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
2019 Blossom Everywhere SLOT, Sydney
2019 Shades of Red lll Willesden Gallery London, UK
2019 Shades of Red ll Factory49 Paris, Paris
2018 A Thousand Knots in Jingdezhen Factory 49, Sydney
2018 Sorry I no understand SLOT, Sydney
2018 Happy New Year AIRspace Projects, Sydney
2017 Knot Factory 49, Sydney
2017 Shades of Red Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2016 Two-Way Street Jockey Club Creative Art Centre, Hong Kong
2016 Red Journey with Two Perspectives Project Space B.25, National Art School, Sydney
2015 Not another bloody coffee shop Articulate Upstairs, Sydney
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Hum and the Buzz / Neon Playground by Chinatown, Banchō, Sydney
2022 Aesthetics of Silence, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney
2022 HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition, The McGlade Gallery, Sydney
2022 HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney
2022 The Hum + The Buzz, Neolite Gallery, Sydney
2022 Parallel Wanderings, The Concourse Chatswood, Sydney
2021 Articulate turns eleven, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
2021 Eden Unearthed:Art in the gardens, Eden Gardens, Sydney
2021 Que des femmes / Only women Factory 49, Sydney
2021 Metamorphosis Gallery Lane Cove - Online
2021 New Beginning Willoughby Council Foyer Art Space, Sydney
2021 FRACAS Articulate Project Space, Sydney
2020 Northern Perspectives Gallery Lane Cove, Lane Cove, Sydney
2020 Retracing Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Sydney
2020 Annual Group Show Factory 49, Sydney
2020 The Art of Defiance - Hong Kong: Revolution of Our Time M2 Gallery, Sydney
2019 Production at the Factory Factory 49, Sydney
2019 4AA4 Fundraising Exhibition 4A Art Gallery, Sydney
2019 Home Grown: The Tenacious Realm The Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby, Sydney
2019 Our Common Bond May Space Art Gallery, Waterloo, Sydney
2018 Unseen 541ArtSpace, Sydney
2018 LIFEBLOOD Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga, Sydney
2018 The 65th Blake Prize Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula
2017 Another Perspective with Paper Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney
2017 Factory 49's Annual Group Show 2017 Factory 49, Sydney
2017 Yunlin Art Together Taiwan International Exchange, Xiluo Old Street Cultural Museum and Beigang Culture Centre of Yunlin, Taiwan
2017 Supermarket 2017: Intimacy Stockholm Independent Art Fair, Svarta huset, Stockholm
2016 Articulate Turns Six: What Next Articulate, Sydney
2016 National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition 2016 National Art School, Sydney
2016 WONDER + WOMAN Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney
2015 Terrain – from two perspectives Gallery Klei, Sydney
2015 The Other Art Fair Central Park, Sydney
2014 4AA4 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2014 Live or Let - Live Gallery Klei, Sydney
2014 Peculiar Compendiums Gaffa, Sydney
2014 Strung, Drawn and Quartered Jean Bellette Gallery, Hill End, Bathurst
2014 Drawn Out Art Est. Art School, Leichhardt, Sydney
2013 Emporio Armani National Art School Postgraduate Exhibition National Art School, Sydney
2013 SaArtchi Exhibition Saatchi and Saatchi, Sydney
2013 s h a r e s p a c e Contemporary Exhibition, Carlton, Melbourne
2013 C3 Exhibition NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
2013 Rise Exist Demise (RED) Contemporary Exhibition Nishi Gallery New Acton, Canberra
2012 National Art School Graduate Exhibition National Art School, Sydney
2012 Off the Wall NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, Sydney
ARTIST TALKS
2022 Parallel Wanderings Meet the Artists, Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Art Space on The Concourse
2021 Paid PS Studio Visit, Para Site Hong Kong & Australia Council for the Arts
2020 'Northern Perspectives', Artist Talk Marathon, Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios
2017 'Red' at the Big Anxiety Festival, Human Library UNSW Art & Design, Sydney
2017 'Knot: Closing Talk', Factory 49, Sydney
2015 'Another Bloody Artists Talk' Articulate, Sydney
COLLECTIONS
• Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre
• Works held in private collections in Australia, the UK, Hong Kong and Taiwan
COMMUNITY & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
2019 Interpreter/Performer - Tino Seghal: This is so contemporary, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2018 Interactive Performance - 'Every Pandiculate', Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2016-2018 Committee member - Factory 49, Sydney
2014 Assistant - Naomi Troski installation, Sydney Lyric Theatre, Sydney
2012 Volunteer - 18th Biennale of Sydney, Cockatoo Island, Sydney
MEDIA
2022 "Pamela Leung's Red Line Story" (English), Garland Magazine
2019 "Our Common Bond" (English), Art Almanac Australia
2018 "Every Pandiculate" Daily (English), Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
2017 The meaning of red: why the colour holds such sway over us (English), Australian Financial Review
2017 Interview: Tuesday Art Lunch with Pamela Leung (Cantonese), Arts News Network
2017 Interview: Australian Artist Pamela Leung Taixi Residency (Chinese), Yunlin News Net
2016 TAO Magazine, Vol 258, Hong Kong
2014 Installing with Pamela Leung Gaffa Gallery