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Gayle Chong Kwan

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Gayle Chong Kwan
Gayle Chong Kwan by Georgia Kuhn, 2013
Born1973 (age 50–51)
Known forPhotography, visual arts

Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973) is a London-based artist whose large-scale photographic, installation, and video work has been exhibited and published internationally.[1][2][3]

She is known for her large-scale mise-en-scene environments and photographs, created out of waste products, found materials and documentary sources, and which are often sited in the public realm.[4]

Education

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Chong Kwan is a Research Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art,[5] London, (2012-). She holds a BA Hons Politics and Modern History, University of Manchester (1994), where she specialised in Post-Colonial Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa; an MSc in Communications, University of Stirling (1995); and a BA Hons Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (2000).

Awards

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Personal life

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Chong Kwan was born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and a Chinese-Mauritian father. She lives with her two sons (born in 2009 and 2015), in Leytonstone, London.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Lack, Jessica (17 April 2009). "Exhibition preview: Gayle Chong Kwan, Lymington". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Exhibition preview: The Return Of The Ivories/Gayle Chong Kwan, Sheffield - Exhibitions - The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  3. ^ Broughton, Ellie (21 July 2020). "Gayle Chong Kwan - the woman turning our lockdown dreams into art". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Gayle Chong Kwan". Contemporary Art Society. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Gayle Chong Kwan". Royal College of Art. Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Match, 2015". Refocus. Archived from the original on 7 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  7. ^ "Arripare, 2013". Refocus. Archived from the original on 16 January 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  8. ^ "four corners film". www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 March 2019. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  9. ^ Zuccotti, Paula (27 May 2013). "Gayle Chong Kwan". Freunde von Freunden. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2014.
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