Gayle Chong Kwan
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Gayle Chong Kwan | |
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 Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013 | |
| Born | 1973 (age 52–53) |
| Known for | Photography, visual arts |
Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973) is a London-based artist whose large-scale photographic, installation, and video work has been exhibited and published internationally.[1][2][3]
She is known for her large-scale mise-en-scene environments and photographs, created out of waste products, found materials and documentary sources, and which are often sited in the public realm.[4]
Education
[edit | edit source]Chong Kwan is a Research Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art,[5] London, (2012-). She holds a BA Hons Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester (1994), where she specialised in Post-Colonial Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; an MSc in Communications, University of Stirling (1995); and a BA Hons Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2000).
Awards
[edit | edit source]- Arts Council England International Fellow (2005)
- Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Award (2005)
- Vauxhall Collective Photography Award (2008)
- Royal Scottish Academy Award (2013)
- Refocus: the Castlegate mima Photography Prize, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (2013). A commission to produce ""Arripare"[6][7]
- 'Wandering Waste', Stills, Edinburgh, and Deveron Arts, Huntly, Royal Scottish Academy Award (2014)
- FATHOM Award, Four Corners, London (2014)[8]
- British Council/Arts Council England International Artist Award - 'Photography in the Public Realm New York' (2015)
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Chong Kwan was born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Chinese-Mauritian father. She lives with her two sons (born in 2009 and 2015), in Leytonstone, London.[9]
References
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External links
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Central Saint Martins
- Alumni of the University of Manchester
- Alumni of the University of Stirling
- Artists from Edinburgh
- British people of Mauritian descent
- Photographers from London
- Scottish contemporary artists
- Scottish people of Chinese descent
- Scottish women photographers