Gukzik Lau

people describe me as artist and educator who creates painting like prints, sometimes with words in 3D installation. She describes herself as a painting writer and her penname "Gukzik" means "collecting colours".

I am very much fond of my own language, cantonese chinese. i like to recite poetry of the tang dynasty, and many times get inspired from the words to build up my images in visuals. i am very much fond of eating in a simple way, it is not chinese but a lot of mix and match. i like to eat good food by good hands. i am in fact the good hands too. i think good cooking is like good art, it should be full of good ideas, thoughts, explorations and tastes. i love, care for life, making good food is like making a good life for oneself. good food is love itself, for all food comes from the same source - love. when they are good, they are nature's blessings.
i am myself an artwork of my own. when i do art work i tend to work towards directions that would allow more than one possibility in the making, of a picture or a scenario. sometimes they are paradox in pairs, sometimes they are contradiction in between each other, sometimes they are never ending stories, abstract thoughts like a body wearing clothes visible in many for...

1990 MA (distinction) RCA Royal College of Art, London, UK. Born and raised in Hong Kong. In her early years trained in Canada, OCAD. She uses modern printing machines to do her art, such as the offset printer, photocopier, fax machine and digital inkjet. She also juxtaposes images and words, both in Chinese and English to create 2D images, occasionally collaborated with 3D installations .
Gukzik has exhibited in the UK, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, China and Hong Kong. There are private and public collections of hers worldwide.

Solo Exhibitions

2013 We Eat, What Exactly Are We Eating?
7 – 30 Jun HAJI Gallery, Hong Kong

2012-13 Ten Suggestions on Improving Our Lives -
Part 1- 22 Dec 2012 – 22 Jan 2013
Part 2 - 26 Jan 2013 – 18 Mar2013
Ox Warehouse Gallery, Macau

1997 A Decade of Collecting Colours -
Part 1- Red The Fringe Gallery,
Hong Kong Fringe Club

Part 2 - Yellow + Blue
Hong Kong Arts Centre


Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
The Legendary Pulp – works on paper
3 artists’ show from Australia, USA, and Hong Kong
Feb 2017, The cattle depot, Hong Kong

2016
OPEN BOOKS–International Artists Explore the Chinese Folding Book
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

2016
Live Art Daily – a fringe programme for “Wall-less Chit-Chat”Exhibition,
Dec 2015 – Mar 2016 Hong Kong Museum of Art

2015
Etudes - for the everyday給每一天的練習曲
100 participating artists in h k, August 2015,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

2014
OPEN BOOKS exhibitions touring to the following places:
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, June/...