Lie Fhung
(b. 1969 in Jakarta, Indonesia)

Lie Fhung studied fine arts at the Bandung Institute of Technology in West Java, majoring in Ceramics. After graduating, Fhung found herself grappling with questions of artistic and cultural identity, which stymied her creative work. She left Indonesia to work as a designer in Shanghai and eventually settled in Hong Kong, where she began to work independently in digital media design. Fhung’s engagement in activities beyond the pure scope of art helped her to forge networks that have come to inspire her art-making processes. For example, through her digital scrapbooking business, she was privileged to gain insight into the small visual histories that women, especially mothers, created for themselves and their families. In her role as artist she explored with them the question of what is hidden from these histories, an exploration that influenced her on-going multi-media project To Breed or Not to Breed (2005 -).

Her work Flight (2005) (featured in the book Contemporary Ceramics, Emmanuel Cooper, Thames & Hudson, 2009), embodies the delicate tactile sensibility that infuses much of her work. In 2007, her work was added to the Permanent Collection of the World Ceramic Foundation, Icheon, South Korea. In 2008, she received a Freeman Fellowship Award for an 8-week artist residency at Vermont Studio Center. More recent works include on-going mixed-media installations utilising a range of materials including archival boxes, porcelain, wire, and digital prints. These works explore themes of: dreams (Dream Archives, 2009-); the female body (Hidden Growth, 2009-); freedom (Freedom is a Collaborative Effort, 2011); and memory (Moments Arrested, 2012-13).

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