Finalist 2021 KAAF Art Prize Award
2021 is the second year I submit my work for this art prize, and yay, I am happy to announce that my drawing What I dreamt last night is one of the finalist 2021 KAAF Art Prize Award Exhibition.
What I Dreamt Last Night
Ink on Paper, 50 x 40, 2020
I grew up in Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country and raised in a Chinese and Javanese multicultural household and immigrated to Australia in 2008. Through my experiences as a struggling artist living alone in Australia for years, my work inspired by personal childhood memories, nature, popular culture, identity and notions of the feminine to communicate innocence, naivety, loss and sorrow. This drawing from dealing with my current insomnia, the struggle of sleeplessness and the creative inspiration provide for the imagination. The work expresses the unusual imagery taken from the unconscious mind, anxious and abstract, drowning in an unfamiliar dark space. The endless permutations of form possible with a vibrant imagination keep the artist's brain awake as it dissolves into the creative disorientation of nighttime.
2021 KAAF Art Prize Award Exhibition
Due to the evolving Covid crisis and lockdown in Sydney, a postponement in exhibition start date and the opening was inevitable.
Exhibition date. 3 -23 Sept 2021
Opening Friday Fri Sept 3rd 2021 , 6-8pm by invitation