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Private Preview: 10 September 2007, 4 – 6PM
Hailing from Shanghai and a current resident of Brisbane Australia, IRENE CHOU is a multi-award winner having been conferred the Pacificulture Asia Museum Fine Art Award in 1972, Urban Council Fine Arts Award for Painting in 1983 and the Hong Kong Artists’ Guild Painter of the Year Award in 1988.
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SINGAPORE- Life is a many splendoured thing! This is the apt title of the series of recent ink works by one of the few female pioneers in the New Ink Painting Movement, IRENE CHOU (b. 1924). These spectacular ink works are filled with a kaleidoscope of entrancing reds, greens and yellows that contrast brilliantly against Chou’s signature black-ink brushstrokes. Created between 2006 and 2007, Life is a Many Splendoured Thing is not only a visual treat but is a testament of her remarkable spirit and tenacity as an artist and as a person. Come this September from 10 to 17, iPRECIATION will display these exceptional ink paintings at The Rotunda, Exchange Square!
Having been partially incapacitated by a bad stroke in 1991, Chou underwent intensive physiotherapy and fought hard to return to her love for painting. Consequently, her post-1991 and especially her 2006 – 2007 works are influenced by “Jingjin” that translates to the “essence of moving forward” relating to Chou’s j0urney to recovery and “revival” as an ink painter. At the very core, these works are the artistic renditions of Chou’s fascinating inner world when it is freed from the “bounded rationalities of the immediate landscape”…. They are nothing less than amazing!