My practice in 2005 was focused on drawing, mark-making and experimentation with different methods to achieve textures and surfaces. The result was a series of drawn imagery being photo-released (photocopy transfer) and screenprinted to produce abstract representations from life sketches.
Silkscreen prints 50x67cm each.
Cardboard Series
This series of prints was to experiment with combinations of marks, to create textures and surfaces depending on the interaction between medium and material.
Silkscreen print on corrugated cardboards, A2 each.2006
Tracing the Process, group exhibition at SoFA Gallery on Campus, 2006
The main elements I incorporated in my works were photocopied imagery, language fragments(cropped, manipulated and abstractly arranged texts) and packaging netplan.
The concept in my work was to express my personal experience living in New Zealand and still being influenced by my Taiwanese heritage. By using motifs other than generic cultural symbolism and objects of personal significance, my attempt was to express an ambiguous cultural existence and explore the possibility of a middle ground.
Silkscreen prints, 50x50cm each.
Detail of works from Traching the Process.Other works
Silkscreen prints, 50x50cm each.
2007
Just Vacant- catalogue designed by Chloe Geoghegan
A catalogue about my work was designed by a graphic design student for her project.
Details of Just Vacant catalogue. Please enlarge image to read the supporting text.
Original works used in the catalogue
Original sketches of the cigarette packets I collected.
All silkscreen prints are 67x50cm each.
A set of silkscreen prints that continues to depict and explore visual concepts of packaging netplans.
