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 New, MAY SPACE Online

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