Hello reader,
Be you dedicated blogoree since day one, or just visiting to find out more about my art practice;
mostly
THANK YOU =>>>> for blogging on with me
The degree show boot was as expected; leathery and steel capped, so university days already seem like a distant surreal memory, erasing themselves like Aha’s ‘Take On Me’. I’ve got my professional hat at the ready; I need to. Luckily always this and not dungarees with paint on. Phew.
I hope that this unravelling online account of my practice over the past month has given you a refreshing insight into my art passions, capabilities and aspirations. I have sought to provide an honest slice of my art dreams-dashes and day-to-day jouissance. I can safely surmise that it’s been quite a rollercoaster and I am only at Chesington; Alton Towers still to come.
Here’s to a future of :
quality art for me and you that makes me relish that sublime moment despite any stressful, crap, penniless times to come. I hope I can carry on making because I don’t know how not to now. That’s also thanks to Dundee Uni: the tutors, technicians, office secretaries and security… It was all just right for me. It helped me get here, and that’s not too bad.
HOPE
I hope people continue to smile or raise their eyebrows when they look at my work. That’s the ultimate because I can hear their cogs working, when they stand, observing, reach out to touch, or return with a friend, that’s what makes me think; artist almost? No not artist, more, a 3D renderer of Bill Bryson’s inner workings. Ok, an artist.
Thanks to the entire A-N team, from editorial to IT to subscription, you are indeed a genuinely sound bunch who inspire art and are art inspired. You care to nurture the talent and it’s been bloborific: theraupeutic, routine to the art madness, challenging and fulfilling; a site to trace what I have done this year and how. If you ever get the invitation to blog here, reach. Hopefully Happy Birthday 25 A-N will have me for an update in the future…
The Blobs take their bow for now;
All the best, Blobbing off,
Kai-Oi Jay Yung
(interdisciplinary artist)
>>>>Let’s make good art for she he you me
Spurrrrghh hehu huh. Get off, not the Oscarts you know. Blob head.
“Jay Yung’s weirdly beautiful anthropomorphic sculptures somehow combine cellular imagery with an ice cream and fairy-cake aesthetic” Moira Jeffrey, The Herald, 26 May 2006
“Waste is turned into an art form… Jay Yung’s interactive head turning exhibition embraces rubbish as an art form” Chester Chronicle, 16 November 2005
“A cacophony of exuberant work…its starting point the tension between two identities manifests itself as… order versus chaos or beauty versus ugliness” Dundee University, May 2006
“Get your blobs out” Nuts, hopefully never
Got
First Class Honours, BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Dundee 2006
BA (Hons) French Language and Literature, Sheffield University, 1999, 2:1
Prizes/Awards 2005-6
The William Armstrong Davidson Prize
Alan Woods Memorial Prize
Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, Professional Artist Development Scheme
Shortlisted
They Had Four Years 2007, Generator Projects, Dundee
The Wimberley Medal
Tell Me
[email protected]
http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/mpn/story.php?sid=745
The Future 2006: Exhibitions/Activity
June:
A-N
On the Front Cover: ‘Future Forecast’ 2006
Friday 23 June
The Wormhole Salon III, The Whitechapel Gallery, East London
7-11pm
http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=2592
http://www.newtoy.org/MENU6.swf
30 June – 1 July
NAN High Tides and Low Lights
July
Blurring The Neatline, The Embassy Galleries, Edinburgh17 June – 16 July
14 July: Trampoline video event, Live projections from a roaming vehicle: sites including Edinburgh castle, Cowgate Bridge, Museum of Scotland
http://www.blurringtheneatline.org/index.htm
August
Cove Park Springboard Residency, Scotland, invitation courtesy artist/tutor Graham Fagen
http://www.covepark.org/AboutUs.htm
September
Video Projections: The Old Blue Last, London, in conjunction with Vice Magazine, 2006
Thank You:
Graham Fagen, http://www.grahamfagen.com/
Matthew Dalziel http://www.dalzielscullion.com/
Derrick Guild http://www.artnet.com/artist/7540/derrick-guild.html
Clive Gillman, Dundee Contemporary Arts, http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2005/01/27/newsstory6757663t0.asp
Phong Van Dam, Alan Greigg
Eddie Summerton (for letting me on the course)
Jenny Brownrigg, Dundee Uni, http://www.exhibitions.dundee.ac.uk/
>>>>Debbie Chan: fairyartmother: here’s to all to come
http://www.chinese-arts-centre.org/mpn/index.php
