Michelle Loa Kum Cheung

Michelle Loa Kum Cheung is a London based artist, recently relocated from Sydney, Australia. Loa Kum Cheung’s art is a study of the fragmentation and fabrication of memory and place, real or imagined. To inform her work, she draws on the natural world as a symbol of constant transience and decay. Loa Kum Cheung’s current practice is a response to her own dislocation from her cultural heritage and identity as an Australian with a Chinese Mauritian background. She employs the use of oil, gold leaf and pyrography in her paintings and drawings, favouring the raw materiality of wood as a base. Referencing contrasting modes of documentation, from old family photos to satellite earth imagery, Loa Kum Cheung aims to fabricate nostalgia for an imagined past and place, both familiar and alien.

Michelle Loa Kum Cheung graduated with Honours in Fine Arts from the UNSW Art & Design, University of New South Wales in 2011. Since then she has exhibited steadily in group exhibitions and prizes and held solo shows at Sheffer Gallery and Gaffa Gallery in Australia.

Open Borders, Old Brompton Gallery (2019) - upcoming

Re-orientated: A Conversation of Different Geographies - collaborative exhibition with Julie Brixey-Williams. A-Side B-Side Gallery, London (2017)

Beyond The Borders, Crypt Gallery, London (2017)

Small is Beautiful, More or Less. Unit 3 Projects, London (2017)