Artworks shown at Bergman Gallery, Tāmaki Auckland, New Zealand
Friday Night Ritual, 2024, acrylic on found wood panels
Exhibition: Belonging: Stories of New Zealand Contemporary Asian Artists, Bergman Gallery, 1 -31 August 2024
This painting is based on the menu displayed at Kelburn Fisheries in Wellington, New Zealand. My father Ng Sik Kwun ran this fish and chip shop from 1955 to 1987. After arriving in New Zealand in 1947, he worked two fulltime laundry jobs, one during the day and the other at night. After 8 years he had saved enough money to purchase the family home, marry my mother Yip Sue Yen, and buy his own business. Eating fish and chips from Kelburn Fisheries became a Friday night ritual for thousands of locals for 32 years.
The Lost Water Buffalo, 2024, mixed media
Exhibition: Belonging: Stories of New Zealand Contemporary Asian Artists, Bergman Gallery, 1 -31 August 2024
This artwork was inspired by a true story involving my father and his childhood best friend Doo Lee Yee (known as Martin) who lived in neighbouring villages in Guangdong, China. It involved a lost family water buffalo and a rescue operation that saw the two children forge a friendship that lasted a lifetime. Both men settled in Wellington, New Zealand, in the 1940s, and every Saturday afternoon my father would walk into town to visit Doo Lee.
Chicken Feet and Banquet, 2024, wool, PLA, melamine, bamboo
Exhibition: Belonging: Stories of New Zealand Contemporary Asian Artists, Bergman Gallery, 1 -31 August 2024
Bauble, 2023, mixed media kinetic sculpture
Exhibition: A Place to Call Home, Bergman Gallery, 2023
Bauble is a kinetic Lucky Cat sculpture with moving eyes and a head that turns. He holds a bowl of chips in one hand and a pair of chopsticks in the other. Bauble is based on my father, a self-made man who worked 2 fulltime laundry shifts a day, enabling the purchase of a fish n chip business, Kelburn Fisheries, which he ran from 1955 to 1987.
《巴布》综合形式艺术作品（2023年）
展览：《一个称之为家的地方》伯格曼画廊（2023年）
“巴布”是个颇有动感的招财猫雕塑，他有着可移动的小眼睛和可转动的脑袋。他一手拿着一碗薯条，另一只手举着一双筷子。《巴布》的创作灵感来源于我的父亲Ng Sik Kwun，他是个自力更生的人，每天工作两个全职的洗衣房的班，他最后买下了一家名为Kelburn Fisheries的鱼薯店，并从1955年到1987年一直在经营这个生意。
《巴布》綜合形式藝術作品（2023年）
展覽：《一個稱之為家的地方》伯格曼畫廊（2023年）
巴布 是個頗有動感的招財貓雕塑，他有著可移動的小眼睛和可轉動的頭。他一手拿著一碗薯條，另一手舉著一雙筷子。 《巴布》的創作靈感來自我的父親Ng Sik Kwun，他是個自力更生的人，每天工作兩個全職的洗衣房的班，他最後買下了一家名為Kelburn Fisheries的魚薯店，並從1955年到1987年一直在經營這門生意。