Gayle Chong Kwan
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Gayle Chong Kwan | |
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_(headshot).jpg) Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013 | |
| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) |
| Education | University of Manchester, University of Stirling, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design |
| Known for | Photography, visual arts |
Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973) is a Scottish-born London-based artist whose large-scale photographic, installation, and video work has been exhibited and published internationally.[1][2][3]
She is known for her large-scale mise-en-scene environments and photographs, created out of waste products, found materials and documentary sources, and which are often sited in the public realm.[4]
Personal life and education
[edit]Kwan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland to a Scottish mother and Chinese Mauritian father. She has two sons born in 2009 and 2015) and resides in Leytonstone, London.[5]
Chong Kwan is a Research Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art,[6] London, (2012-). She holds a BA Hons Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester (1994), where she specialised in Post-Colonial Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; an MSc in Communications, University of Stirling (1995); and a BA Hons Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2000).
Awards
[edit]- Arts Council England International Fellow (2005)
- Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Award (2005)
- Vauxhall Collective Photography Award (2008)
- Royal Scottish Academy Award (2013)
- Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (2013). A commission to produce ""Arripare"[7][8]
- 'Wandering Waste', Stills, Edinburgh, and Deveron Arts, Huntly, Royal Scottish Academy Award (2014)
- FATHOM Award, Four Corners, London (2014)[9]
- British Council/Arts Council England International Artist Award - 'Photography in the Public Realm New York' (2015)[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ Lack, Jessica (17 April 2009). "Exhibition preview: Gayle Chong Kwan, Lymington". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ↑ Clark, Robert (3 January 2009). "Exhibition preview: The Return Of The Ivories/Gayle Chong Kwan, Sheffield - Exhibitions - The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ↑ Broughton, Ellie (21 July 2020). "Gayle Chong Kwan - the woman turning our lockdown dreams into art". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ↑ "Gayle Chong Kwan". Contemporary Art Society. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- 1 2 Zuccotti, Paula (27 May 2013). "Gayle Chong Kwan". Freunde von Freunden. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
- ↑ "Gayle Chong Kwan". Royal College of Art. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
- ↑ "Match, 2015". Refocus. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ↑ "Arripare, 2013". Refocus. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ↑ "four corners film". www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
External links
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Central Saint Martins
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- Alumni of the University of Stirling
- Artists from Edinburgh
- British people of Mauritian descent
- Photographers from London
- Scottish contemporary artists
- Scottish people of Chinese descent
- Scottish women photographers
- British Asian artists