Art Basel (HK) with 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, March 2024
This piece is entitled ‘I guess we’ll just float then…’ (Oil on canvas, 150x100cm, 2024) and it is on the theme of floods we witnessed around the world in 2023 (specifically Libya, the US, Pakistan, Congo…). The angels emerging from a halo of light are frantically flying towards the earth as messengers, urgently warning the planet of its disastrous fate, but it seems to be too late.
This painting aims to highlight the incapacity or unwillingness of political leaders & CEOs to think about the impactful decisions they make — so often overly focused on profit, and so infrequently concerned by other metrics of wellbeing, namely a healthy and safe planet in which human beings can prosper.
The image aims to mock them and the lie their big egos feed them daily: that they can continually get away with making big, senseless decisions despite the devastating environmental repercussions, which they, naturally, never face. And if they do one day, I guess they’ll just ‘float’ then…!
image courtesy 10 Chancery Lane Gallery — Hong Kong Art Basel 03/2024 with 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
solo show @ 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, 2023 — ‘Otherworlds’
solo show @ Sixi Museum, Nanjing, 2023 — ‘searching for light’
video courtesy Sixi Museum — exhibition ‘searching for light’: 01/06/23 - 15/08/23, curator Shu Zheng at Sixi Museum
solo show @ Roman Road Gallery, London, 2023 — ‘post-paradise’ (EXTREME)
fuchsia: post-paradise | 12 – 16 July
‘With her new and shimmering works in post-paradise, fuchsia entices us into chimeric dreamscapes, full of cherubim angels, alluring marine creatures and flourishing plant life. Brimming with symbols of purity and refinement, she has developed a unique visual vocabulary to explore ideas of regeneration and growth, on the extreme other side of the current climate crisis. The orchid, representing beauty and love, is a key and recurring symbol in fuchsia’s latest paintings, one that is also redolent of her childhood in Hong Kong. With her works, fuchsia aims to encourage viewers to reawaken and reflect on ecological consciousness, opening up a dialogue that she hopes will transcend the viewing space.’ (Roman Road Gallery)
image courtesy Deniz Guzel — exhibition ‘post-paradise’: 12/07/23 - 16/07/23, curator Marisa Bellani at Roman Road Gallery
‘…and when the oceans opened her arms, she bowed down, calm…' (painting on the right)
A celestial being in a pool of water stares in awe at a giant orchid emerging from a crystal globe amidst a rocky mountain. Serving as a catalyst for a shift in consciousness, the disproportionately large orchid urges us to alter our perspective from the human-centric outlook to the botanical, exposing the hubris and fallibility of our anthropocentric understanding of the universe.
‘secret garden’, 2023
residency @ Sarabande (Alexander McQueen) Foundation, 2023 — residency group show: ‘SUM’
image courtesy Corey Bartle-Sanderson — group show ‘SUM’: 10/08/23 - 07/08/23, at Sarabande Foundation
