Artist Profile
INTRODUCING GINA CHOY
LITERARY INTERPRETATION – FROM CINDIA
THEME IN THE NOVEL: TIME
TITLE OF SERIES: Pulse-beat
Works: Transformation, Momentum, Breath, Without Hesitation
This beautiful and contemplative series takes you on a philosophical journey of transformation. Each piece in itself represents a phase where obstructions are removed and being becomes different.
Together, this collection shows the way toward a meaningful path in a never-ending cycle of change. It is representative of the journeys that the characters, and all of us, are on in our collective human experience.
ARTIST’S INTERPRETATION OF BELONGING
‘Pulse-beat’ Collection
A breath or a pulse-beat of the undefinable spirit of life.
“When painting follows the heart, the obstructing veils are removed, all the innumerable things of Heaven and Earth can be represented.” – Shih-t’ao (1642-1707)
Painting with charcoal on ceramic informed by the technique and philosophy of traditional Chinese painting. Translated into digital through photography. Physical work – destroyed.
More in this Twitter / X about this wonderful series: About Pulse-beat
BIOGRAPHY OF GINA CHOY
Gina Choy (aka Georgina Hooper) is an Australian artist based on the Sunshine Coast. Primarily a painter, cross-cultural fertilization is at the heart of Gina Choy’s practice. She is informed by a deep engagement with Eastern artistic traditions and visual language and the philosophies that underpin them.
“All of my creative work is an exploration of the Chinese philosophical concept of 禮 li (cosmic principle or truth) through images of the natural world.”
In 2011 Choy was invited as a research scholar to Tianjin University where she learnt a practice of traditional Chinese painting under the tutelage of the Head of the School of Art and Architecture at TU, Professor Dong Ya.
Choy’s contemporary exploration of traditional Chinese painting synthesises Eastern calligraphic strokes with Modern abstraction, these works are developed through a meditative repetition of 5 strokes on a coloured field while others are underpinned by indelible mark-making on raw surfaces.
“My depictions of nature are an interpretation of the human aesthetic experience and the effect of nature on us when we open ourselves up to it.”
Choy creates vast and rhythmic matrixes imbued with the forces and motion of nature. Her abstraction of landscape reflects her pursuit to represent the natural environment as a felt experience, where space is illimitable and incalculable, carrying a suggestion of the infinite. Inspired by the monumentality of nature and associated feelings of awe, Choy’s work evolves as immersive spaces for audiences to visually escape into.
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