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DECEMBER
Owen's work appears on the cover of the latest issue of Journal of Australian
Studies (issue 32.4). Co-edited by Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo, this
special issue of JAS is titled Asia@Home: New Directions in Asian
Australian Studies. Featuring essays by Adam Aitken, Michelle Antoinette,
Jen Tsen Kwok, Francis Maravillas, and Hsu-Ming Teo the journal is
available for download
online.
NOVEMBER
Owen's work has been included in Leading
Lights, an exhibition celebrating the achievements of some of the
most successful graduates from the College of Fine Arts.
Artists include: Brook Andrew, Del Kathryn Barton, Trent Jansen, Adam
Cullen, Dinosaur Designs, Shaun Gladwell, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro,
The Kingpins, Lindy Lee, Owen Leong, Clinton Nain, Vanila Netto, and Bronwyn
Oliver.
| Exhibition: |
Leading
Lights |
| Dates: |
6 - 29 November
2008 |
| Venue: |
Ivan Dougherty
Gallery |
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Cnr Albion Avenue
& Selwyn Street |
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Paddington NSW
2021 |
| Web: |
www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/galleries/idg/ |
OCTOBER
Owen's video work Milk Ring
will be exhibited at the Bridge
Art Fair Berlin, 30 October - 2 November. Owen was selected by New-Zealand
based curator Young Sun Han, as part of the City
Art Rooms presentation at the fair.
SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER
Owen will be completing a residency at Cité
Internationale des Arts, Paris, from
3 September - 27 October. He was awarded the Moya Dyring Studio through
the Art Gallery of NSW. Please direct all postal mail and telephone contact
to:
| Address: |
M.
Owen Leong |
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Cité Internationale
des Arts |
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Atelier 8202 |
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18, rue de l'Hôtel
de Ville |
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75004 PARIS CEDEX
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| Telephone: |
+33 1.42.78.71.72 |
| Mobile: |
+33 6.80.65.53.12 |
AUGUST
Owen has been awarded an Australia Council New Work Grant to produce video
work for his first solo exhibition with Über
Gallery, Melbourne.
JULY
An interview with Owen appears in the Winter 2008 issue of Incubate
magazine. Incubate explores a range of creative ideas and practices and
showcases the work of staff and students from the College of Fine Arts
UNSW.
"The human body
is a vessel through which artists have communicated for centuries,"
writes Naomi Gall, "Owen Leong takes this practice to a new level
with his visceral and evocative work that presents the face and skin as
surfaces through which we engage and connect with each other.”
Download
the article [PDF 136KB]
JUNE
Owen has been awarded an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant. The
Ian Potter Cultural Trust seeks to encourage the diversity and excellence
of emerging artists in Australia. This grant will allow him to undertake
a two-month artist residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
FEBRUARY
Opening the sweaty season at City
Art Rooms, a group of New Zealand and overseas artists explore the
sensations of flesh, veneers, and skin using a variety of materials. The
skin of these works articulate ideas and identities through personal,
cultural, political, and formal perspectives. An emphasis in visual and
textural layers implies that meanings and intents are carefully hidden
beneath a seductive surface.
Featuring: Cat Auburn, Clare Barone, Assaf Ezra, Gill Gatfield, Young
Sun Han, Imogen Kerr, Owen Leong, Jason Lingard, Maryann Pennington, Clinton
Phillips.
Download the media release [PDF
984 KB]
JANUARY
A review of Owen Leong's solo exhibition at Ryan
Renshaw appears in the Summer 2007 issue of Art
& Australia magazine.
Dr Uros Cvoro writes, "The artists's quest for identity operates
beyond the usual multicultural pluralism of identity, yet also refuses
the essential position of difference. Bleed, 2007, and Hole,
2006, echo Nigerian-raised Yinka Shonibare's interventions into the mythology
of the Victorian dandy, and Autofiction, 2005, fllirts with the
defiant yet impotent masculinity of Martin Scorsese's 1980 film Raging
Bull. Collectively, they locate the gulf between Australian tradition
and globalism as a productive space for identity politics."
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