ARTIST INFORMATION
Gloria Kawai
Born in Hong Kong in the 1980s, Kawai has been brought up like any student of the same age. She practiced dancing and art as hobbies. Wanting to be an artist, she enrolled in the department of Fine Arts in the Chinese University of Hong Kong for undergraduate study. Since then she began to explore different fields of art, like installation, painting, sculpture, and photography. Nonetheless, her focus is always on painting, through which she could best express herself, even more than words and speech. She would not plan the work before she paints, or put it another way, she cannot do that; every painting was done like a process, layer by layer, with marks that she has selected to be kept left on each of them.
She has been awarded the best painting award in the Fine Arts department. After graduated, she continued her study in UCCA in Kent, majoring in jewellery design in the MA Three-Dimensional Design course. The shift does not terminate her career as an artist. She sees jewellery with an eye of an artist, and seeks opportunities in between them. Besides, she keeps on painting, even less pressured than before, which leads to her works turning in another direction, which is still being examined. Serendipity, her first solo show which was held in UK in 2007, was likely to show the turning point of her works, from a student right at the heart of the field of Fine Arts, to the periphery.
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
2006-2007 University College for the Creative Arts at Rochester MA 3D Design
2003-2005 SCE, Hong Kong Baptist University Certificate in Jewellery Design and Production
2002-2005 The Chinese University of Hong Kong BA (Fine Arts)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Graduate Show, UCCA MA 3D Design UCCA, Rochester, Kent UK
2007 Serendipity, Solo Painting Exhibition Zandra Rhodes Gallery, UCCA, Rochester, Kent, UK
2005 The Play After Tomorrow, Graduation Exhibition of Fine Arts West-wing Galleries, Art Museum, CUHK
2005 Annual Exhibition of Fine Arts, Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, CUHK
2005 Small Tomatoes, Joint Exhibition Hui Gallery, New Asia College, CUHK
2004 The Foyer, Dual Exhibition Foyer Gallery, Sir Run Run Shaw Hall, CUHK
2004 Hello London, Joint Exhibition of Y.S. Hui Fine Arts Exchange Programme
2004 Hui Gallery, New Asia College, CUHK
COLLECTIONS
2006 My Notes I, Private Collection
2005 I Feel Like Green, Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, Private Collection
2004 My Note IV, Acrylic and pencil on board, CA Design
2003 Interlock, Wooden Furniture, Private Collection
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