梁程萬 LEUNG, Ching Man Calis
Calis is graduated from bachelor of fine art at RMIT University and now having her MA fine art in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her porcelain work “Feathers” has won the Franz rising star award in 2021.
Artist Statement
In my creative journey, I have grown interested in family history and perception of life. Repetition is the key method for me to express emotion and depression. Ceramics is not the only material I used but also mixed media. Those inconspicuous things and what happens in society always triggers my creative ideas. In particular about wars happening nowadays.
Wars seem distant from where I lived (Hong Kong), but for me, those were the bedtime stories throughout my childhood, as my father had once experienced wars when he was kid. My recent work focused on narrating the relations between weapons, kids and trauma. Using artificial means to transform children's daily objects from colorful to black, white and gray. Visually present a broken childhood. Recreates kid’s daily objects into ceramics. Broken texture represents trauma from wars that will follow their lives relentlessly. Bed Time Story recreates personal belongings into ceramics. Transferred image of “ribbon”, which symbolized a widely used weapon, the M777 howitzer. Fire, ashes, texture are all metaphors of processing war.
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