Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2023

I’m excited to announce that “Aurora” has been shortlisted for the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award 2023.

The Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award is Australia’s most prestigious, longest running print prize.

Now in its 46th year, the FAC Print Award presents a diverse selection of prints and artist books from emerging, established and cross disciplinary artists, offering a true picture of the state of contemporary Australian printmaking.

As Australia’s richest print prize, the winner will take home $16,000 and their work will be acquired for the City of Fremantle Art Collection, the largest municipal collection in WA. Second prize receives $6,000. Exhibition runs from Saturday 5th August to Sunday 22nd October 2023.

Big Design Market

I will be taking part in The Big Design Market Melbourne, 2-4 December 2022 at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton. There will be over 200 exhibitors selling designer homewares, hand-made ceramics, limited-edition art prints, Australian-made fashion, unique jewellery, stationery and much more!

My Constellation series and Collage series will be on display and for sale.

Critical Limit: An Urgent Call for Collective Climate Action at CLIMARTE Gallery

‘Critical Limit’ presents works from the City of Yarra arts collection and beyond with an environmental focus.

Across moving image, photography, painting, prints and sculpture the works explore issues contributing to the climate emergency and its impact on our animal life and natural ecologies. ‘Critical Limit’ looks to our artists to gain knowledge, express our concerns, and find solutions. ‘Critical Limit’ is an impassioned response to this urgent call for collective action.

Featuring artists Alice Duncan, Michael Fikaris, Kathy Holowko, Leila Jeffreys, Kent Morris, Felix Wilson, with collection artists Alexis Beckett, Extinction Rebellion, Sally Gabori, Silvi Glattauer, Christine Johnson, Cameron Robbins, Wendy Stavrianos, John Wolseley, and Jessi Wong.

Where: Climarte Gallery 120 Bridge Road, Richmond
When: Thursday 4 August – Saturday 3 September 2022

Aftermath and Rebirth

These 3-dimensional imagined sea- and landscapes draw inspiration from the effect of human activity on the environment. The dystopian landscapes are occasionally dark, barren and bleak in shades of grey and black in an imagining of the future.

They are sometimes a strong bright red with yellow clouds, drawing reference to the skies after a nuclear apocalypse; or they can be deep blue, like a vast expanse of water engulfing the planet. Other 2-dimensional works on paper are borne from the misprints and off-cuts of these works and re-birthed through a combination of collage, drawing, and print. These are more playful in nature and act as a contrast to their original intention. While different in subject matter, these works rely on the creation of the other and emerge as hope in the aftermath of the destruction.

Showing at Printmaker Gallery, 227 Brunswick Street Fitzroy. Exhibition runs 11th - 25th February 2021

Quite Contrary with Helen Kocis Edwards

Helen Kocis Edwards and Jessi Wong explore childhood memory and language through nursery rhymes. By shortening them to their whimsical essence, they create their own interpretations and imagery, working collaboratively using different printmaking and drawing methods.

Nursery rhymes are embedded in the memories and reading experiences of childhood. This project was born from a desire to play with the meaning of these stories, by distilling the language of the most familiar rhymes into a single sentence, deliberately misinterpreting them with humour, and placing them in a contemporary setting.

Jessi develops the text and creates abstract landscapes using woodcuts on paper. Helen responds by drawing characters in Jess’s paper environments. The artists work together passing the text and images back and forth to create, negotiate, and refine their collaborative works on paper and reinterpret these familiar pieces of poetry.

Exhibition runs 27 November 2020 - 14 February 2021

Yarra City Arts, Richmond Library

Monday 5th March - Friday 4th May

This exhibition at Richmond Library is a site specific installation featuring wall drawings and a selection of the artist's works from City of Yarra's Contemporary Art Collection.

The works are devoid of colour, which may be interpreted in parts as heavy and bleak, or light and hopeful. Childlike and naïve stick figure drawings exist throughout the work giving the impression of (somewhat) lighthearted playfulness. The plywood background of woodblock prints invoke the land-based structure of trees, contrasting against the drawn images of the boats and sea. Pathways of people float over the topography of the earth, ocean and sky.  Are all these places able to exist above, below, behind and next to each other, all together at the same time?

This work aims to explore settlement, migration and belonging, while also questioning the idea of home.

More information see Yarra City Arts

Platinum 2017

Exhibition with RMIT University celebrating 20 years of Australian Print Workshop Collie Print Trust Scholarship Award recipients. With Jazmina Cinninas, Andrew Gunnell, Caroline Hawkins, Clare Humphries and Deb Tate. RMIT Project Space, Cardigan Street. Until 27 March 2017

Youth Plus at Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art

Youth Plus is an international group exhibition of over 50 artists with a focus on artists under the age of 40. A selection of artists working over a diverse range of mediums exploring cultural bridges between Eastern and Western societies. Sponsored by the China International Culture Association and the China National Arts Fund. Until October 23rd

Art Central Hong Kong

Solo exhibition with Gaffer Ltd, at Art Central Art Fair in Hong Kong. Coinciding with Art Basel. Traditional woodblock prints encased in acrylic framing captures and intensifies the fragility of the landscape. Until 16th March 2015.

Cataclysm Exhibition

"These ethereal works convey a succession of bleak mountainous forms, punctuated with diaphanous layers that shift and fluctuate across the picture plane.
"Constructed with undulating scrolls of rice paper encased in perspex, they are at once, compelling in their fragile beauty but also vaguely menacing. This is exactly as the artist intended: deforested and uninhabited, WONG’s scene envisages the ghostly premonition of some future dystopia after a catastrophic environmental disaster.
Satirically entitled Far Away, this series addresses the political and social inertia at play in response to increasing environmental degradation and climate change. WONG implies that the scene depicted belongs to an imperceptible and distant future – simply too far from the present to warrant any real action". – Anna Briers

Solo exhibition opening Wednesday 27th March at Anita Traverso Gallery until Saturday April 27th 2013