Jiuan Kok Liang

Hybrids an exhibition by Postgraduate Diploma students Maria Blackmore, Paige Elliott, Jiuan Kok Liang and Pam Whately will be opened by Nicola Kaye coordinator of post graduate studies, Contemporary Arts, ECU.
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Jiuan Kok Liang
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Jiuan Kok Liang was born in Malaysia and currently resides at the Student Housing Village, Mt Lawley Campus, Edith Cowan University.She studied art at Chong Hwa High school in Kluang, Malaysia.In 1999 she commenced her tertiary studies at the Kuala Lumpur College of Art and graduated with Distinction in 2000.In 2004 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Tasmania.On completing her BFA she returned to Malaysia as an art teacher in the Deparment of Art and Design, Chong Hwa High School.After one year's teaching, she commenced studying for her Postgraduate Diploma at Edith Cowan University in 2006.She intends to continue her teaching career at a Malaysian college of art, while further exploring and developing her personal themes and hybrid style of painting.

Jiuan Kok Liang explores her Chinese identity from Malaysia and the relationship between her Chinese background and diaspora.She is processing her artwork in a hybrid cultural relationship between being a Chinese female artist from Malaysia and studying in a Western culture here in Perth, Australia.The foundation of her paintings are a series of self portrait photographs taken in Tasmania and Western Australia, which have been digitally printed onto canvas.She has painted over the canvas with mysterious, almost concealing, deep oil colour brush strokes, as the landscape in Australia always appears to her to exist in a different dimension.The Chinese characters in her work show how her education and morality always reminds her how she ought to behave with a guarded self-morality in public.The images are about her being ‘looked at' and her returning ‘the gaze' to the viewer.She allows her body the lived experience in getting away from cultural and social restrictions in Malaysia and exploring different relationships between her identity and her temporary home environment in Perth.

Hybrids an exhibition by Postgraduate Diploma students Maria Blackmore, Paige Elliott, Jiuan Kok Liang and Pam Whately will be opened by Nicola Kaye coordinator of post graduate studies, Contemporary Arts, ECU.
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Jiuan Kok Liang
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Jiuan Kok Liang was born in Malaysia and currently resides at the Student Housing Village, Mt Lawley Campus, Edith Cowan University.She studied art at Chong Hwa High school in Kluang, Malaysia.In 1999 she commenced her tertiary studies at the Kuala Lumpur College of Art and graduated with Distinction in 2000.In 2004 she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Tasmania.On completing her BFA she returned to Malaysia as an art teacher in the Deparment of Art and Design, Chong Hwa High School.After one year's teaching, she commenced studying for her Postgraduate Diploma at Edith Cowan University in 2006.She intends to continue her teaching career at a Malaysian college of art, while further exploring and developing her personal themes and hybrid style of painting.

Jiuan Kok Liang explores her Chinese identity from Malaysia and the relationship between her Chinese background and diaspora.She is processing her artwork in a hybrid cultural relationship between being a Chinese female artist from Malaysia and studying in a Western culture here in Perth, Australia.The foundation of her paintings are a series of self portrait photographs taken in Tasmania and Western Australia, which have been digitally printed onto canvas.She has painted over the canvas with mysterious, almost concealing, deep oil colour brush strokes, as the landscape in Australia always appears to her to exist in a different dimension.The Chinese characters in her work show how her education and morality always reminds her how she ought to behave with a guarded self-morality in public.The images are about her being ‘looked at' and her returning ‘the gaze' to the viewer.She allows her body the lived experience in getting away from cultural and social restrictions in Malaysia and exploring different relationships between her identity and her temporary home environment in Perth.