Blog Posts - Winnie Chan

Exeter Open Studio 2017

5/19/2017

Exeter Open Studios celebrates the work of artists and community art groups in the City. This year Exeter Open Studios will be taking place during the inaugural city-wide Arts Week Exeter festival (AWE).

Exhibitions and studios will be open from 13th- 21st May 2017 and will be celebrating an amazing 10 years and offering the opportunity for residents and visitors to see artists at work.

Exeter Open Studios is jointly funded by participating artists and Exeter City Council.

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AWESOME ART FAIR at Art Week Exeter

5/8/2017

Art Week Exeter’s purpose is to widen access to, and participation in, the diverse forms of contemporary and traditional art in Exeter. All of this year's Art Week artists will be represented at this salon-style exhibition. Come and peruse this microcosmic display before starting your tour of studios and shows across the city.

Address: 29/30 South Street, Exeter, EX1 1EB

Opening hours:
Sat 13 May   10am–4pm
Sun 14 May    10am–2pm
Mon 15 May   10am–4pm
Tue 16 May 10am–4pm
Wed 17 May   10am–4pm
Thu 18 May 10am–4pm
Fri 19 May 10am–4pm
Sat 20 May   10am–4pm
Sun 21 May 10am–2pm

Wishlist - Solo Exhibition of Winnie Chan

4/25/2017

The exhibition explores Winnie’s vision of the capitalist world, viewing desirable commodities from different angles and often with a focus on textile products, in order to resist what she describes as her “shopaholic behaviour and temptation”. Winnie, who graduated from UAL/Chelsea College of Arts with an MA in Fine Art, paints her obsessions into her artworks.

The exhibition is curated by Julian McSweeney and Huanglu Shi for Artsalon+, and is being held in the atmospheric 1st floor room of The Oddfellows - Exeter, at 60 New North Road, EX4 4EP.

The Private View will be held from 6.pm to 9.pm, on THURSDAY, 4TH MAY, 2017, and the exhibition will then be open from the 5th - 21st May, 2017 as part of Art Week Exeter.

Opening hours from 5th - 21st May, 2017:
Wednesday to Saturday : 6pm- 12am
Special opening hours : 17th May (Wed) 1pm - 5pm

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Art Week Exeter 2017 programme booklet

Under the Radar - Artslant

3/31/2017

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‘Paper Tiger Wooden Horse’

12/13/2016

Paper Tiger Wooden Horse is an exhibition of artworks by a group of internationally based and emerging artists belonging to the UAL (University of the Arts London) alumni based in China, Korea, Hong Kong, and the UK, that seeks to explore language and communication, the cultural exchange of ideas, and the miscommunications that sometimes occur during translation, and the ways in which new or unintended meanings can be generated by the viewer’s emotional response to text or images where the original meaning has become confused or distorted. The title of our show, “Paper Tiger Wooden Horse” refers to the old Chinese idiom “Zhilouhu”, of which “Paper Tiger” is a literal English translation, meaning something that appears threatening, but which cannot stand up to any serious challenge, while “Wooden Horse”, which is a reference to the ancient Greek “Trojan Horse” - a large wooden horse that was left as gift to the city of Troy with whom the Greeks had been fighting a long and epic war, but which secretly held a number of soldiers inside. When the horse was brought inside the city gates the soldiers waited until night and then emerged from the horse and attacked the city from within, which resulted in the defeat of Troy and the destruction of the city (hence the well-known phrase ‘Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”).

Bringing these two idioms with their opposite meanings together echoes the titles of Chinese Kung Fu movies and refers to the notion of globalisation and fears of cultural invasion. Is this exchange of cultural ideas a Paper Tiger or a Wooden Horse?

Curated by our current artist in residence, Julian McSweeney, who holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts in London, and supported by BananaJam Space, set up and run by Chelsea College/UAL alumni Zhou Yuan, and Lab-Box, an arts platform with hubs in Shenzhen, Beijing and Toyota, Japan, also set up by Zhou Yuan and Wu Bo, and others, who both studied for their Master’s Degrees at Chelsea College with Julian, and are members of the China UAL Alumni Association, this exhibition of contemporary art is intended to promote the exchange of ideas and visual culture between China, the UK and other places around the world, through the extensive and growing UAL alumni network, which we hope to foster and develop through such cultural exchanges.

Paper Tiger Wooden Horse will show works by AeLee Ko (Korea) Paul Abbott (UK), Bijan Daneshmand (Iran), Bo Wu (China), Chel Andre Logan (UK), Chang Yang (China), Gerard Carson (UK), George Myles (UK), Henry Gardiner (UK), Huanglu Shi (China), Ivy TC Chan (Hong Kong), Jinjoo Kim (Korea), Jonathan Slaughter (UK), Pengbo Yuan (China), Paul Abbot (UK), Winnie Chan (Hong Kong) and Yorda (China).

Paper Tiger Wooden Horse is being held at the BananaJam Space in Shenzhen, opening with a private view on the 11th December, and will run until Christmas Day, 25th December, 2016.

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Banana Jam

"Fast Forward/Rewind"

7/7/2016

CHELSEA ALUMNI SUMMER SHOW
Curated by Julian McSweeney

18th - 23rd July 2016

Please join us in the Punctum space @ Chelsea College of Arts for the Private View of our Summer Alumni Show from 6.00pm-9.00pm on the 18th July 2016 (following our Graduation Ceremony), and to celebrate with us, have a drink, meet up with old friends, and find out what's new from Chelsea College of Arts' most recent alumni.

The artists:

Paul Abbott   E. Asmaa Alanbari Michelangelo Arteaga
Han Na Bae Emma Barford Ece Beylikci
Ray Brazier Gerard Carson Maria Jose Carvallo
John Teddy Chan Winnie Chan Nicholas Cheeseman
Hayun Choi SoDam Choi Marilyn Collins
Bijan Daneshmand   Ozlem Demirel   Caroline Derveaux-Berte
Sarah Faulkner Luca Federici Kelise Franclemont
Johnny Gordon Peihang Huang Sangsub Jung
Seulgi Kang Sun-jung Kim AeLee Ko
Eden Lazaness   Dong Hwa Lee Joseph Lichy
Shadi Mahsa Jefferson Miranda George Myers
Georgina Nicolaou   Teodora Pasquinelli Alkiste Papadopoulou
Andrew Rickett Ishita Savla Parul Sharma
Huanglu Shi   Sisters from Another Mister Jonathan Slaughter
Laura Solomons Jihoon Son   Ruoru Wang
Christopher Ward Louise Wheeler   Bo Wu
Joshua Y'Barbo Adam Zoltowski

Punctum Gallery @ Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street, London, SW1 4JU

18 - 22 July 2016

Private View: 18 July 2016, 6-9 PM

Hours: 19-22 July 2016, 12-8 PM

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Consolidate｜Online Solo Exhibition of Winnie Chan

10/29/2015

"Consolidate"

A mini retrospective online exhibition showing my development from 2012.
Thank you Owlstand and particularly Stephen Yang for inviting me to hold my solo exhibition on their online gallery. It's especially hard for me to hold one as my works are located in different countries, the limitation of space, cost of transportation and host of all other expenses. Online exhibition provided me another option for the exhibition "space" and rises a new movement when the world goes digital.

Co-Curated by Owlstand

Date: Starting from 30 Oct 2015

Location: https://owlstand.com/exhibition/room/8683d220-50de-49f6-b92f-40152d5b3f5b

Chelsea College of Arts, MA Summer Show

8/24/2015

Chelsea College of Arts Postgraduate Summer Show 2015

4-10 September, 2015

Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street, London
SW1P 4JU

Private View: Friday 4th September 6pm - 9pm

Catch the 'up and coming' artists and designers of tomorrow at the Chelsea College of Arts Postgraduate Summer Show, featuring work by graduating students from the following courses:

MA Fine Art, Graphic Design Communication
Interior & Spatial Design, Textile Design, Curating & Collections

http://events.arts.ac.uk/event/2015/9/4/Chelsea-Postgraduate-Summer-Show-2015

ASYAAF 2015

8/5/2015

The Chosunibo Daily and Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism co-organize 2015 ASYAAF which will be held at Culture Station Seoul 284 on 7th Jul - 2nd Aug 2015. ASYAAF has developed into the nation’s representing art fair which gathered more than 265,00 visitors and sold more than 5,000 art pieces within the last 7 years. This year’s ASYAAF will be showcasing 1,000 selections of talented art students, post-graduates professional young artists from Korea and other Asian countries.

7th Jul - 2nd Aug 2015

Culture Station Seoul 284, 100-162 1 Tongil-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, Sourth Korea

https://www.facebook.com/ASYAAFchosun
http://asyaaf.chosun.com/

Photos: Link here.

CompoSITE

4/29/2015

Part 1 of the interim exhibition from the MA Fine Art Course at Chelsea College of Arts

Private View: 5 - 8 pm, Thursday 30th April
Cookhouse and Triangle Space.
16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom

The exhibition CompoSITE is a project part of the Ma Fine Art program at Chelsea College of Art and demonstrates the progress the students make on the course.

The expanded translation of CompoSITE is to literally compose a space. The word refers to the assembling of an environment starting from completely different approaches. The contemporary art works in the exhibition are shown in two spaces that connect and simultaneously contrast with each other.

Event photos: Link here.