Wenda Yiu: Our Place

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Grotto SKW is pleased to kick off the Fall season with Wenda Yiu’s first one-woman exhibition. Wenda’s creative stimulus comes from ancient map, the way it was conceived in horizontal perspective at a time before satellites and GPS!

Using landmarks and icons from Hong Kong, she creates contemporary old maps with figural or formal signages, traditional Chinese brushworks and tsun (texture) strokes. Individually, each tells a story of the respective neighbourhood while collectively they form a nostalgic visual landscape of the city.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

YIU Tung-wing, Wenda graduated from BA in Fine Art at RMIT University (co-presented with Hong Kong Art School), majoring in painting. Her artworks were collected by private collectors. Yiu shown up her works on Art Basel, Fine Art Ink Asia and held a number of exhibitions in Hong Kong. Yiu pays attention to nature and humanity. She likes to borrow different motifs to show the alternative of Hong Kong and wants to reserve what is being disappeared and forgotten. She combines the old map with a contemporary approach, she blurs the outline of the history and tries to redefine what is the meaning of our culture.

In 2017, Yiu was awarded ‘Outstanding Artwork (Painting)‘ at Hong Kong Art School. She has been selected as one of the finalists in ‘WMA Open Photo Contest Exhibition - Opportunity!’, and received the Reaching Out Award from the Hong Kong Education Bureau in 2019. Yiu received an award from C&G Artpartment in 2020 and cooperate with organization to promote community art after graduation.