Jessie Leung Ka-yi   梁家儀

Jessie Leung is a graduate of The Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. She was winner of numerous scholarships and awards, including the Padma & Hari Harilela Scholarship and the New Trend Award 2010. Her works are in various private collections.

Her works are abundant with stout and clumsy figures that reflect certain aspects of the artist’s inner-being and self-image. Jessie Leung is obsessed with fat flesh. Her works attempt to explore the differences between human and animals, and also challenge the tradition of Chinese figure paintings. She adopted the traditional Chinese gonbi/ fine brush painting technique to exaggerate “fatness” through a series of portraits with fat ladies, toddlers and bugs. During the creative process, she finds that the mind-surging ink splash for creating the body mass allows her emotional outlet, while the delicate fine brush painting of the details and insects calms her mind. Just like addiction, she cannot stop indulging herself in creating plump and grossly obese figures. She is addicted to fatness and hopes that the audience will have fun viewing her works.

The Artworks