Biography
劉菁兒是香港從事混合媒介雕塑、雕刻配以跨媒體及大型空間裝置的藝術家。畢業於香港藝術學院（RMIT），主修雕塑。她的作品擅長突破物料慣性，發明「可持續再生」物料，現時以木屑倒模木雕刻、運用物料與氣氛重新雕塑空間。以不同媒體雕刻、光影氣氛及觀眾融入，創作混合媒介雕塑及空間裝置。
畢業後獲得Reaching Out Scholarship 到日本交流體驗工藝及大地藝術，作品曾獲2018年香港人權獎評審獎，曾在Affordable Art Fair Young Talent 展出，2016 年獲得台北藝術自由日作品優選獎，2015獲「高級文憑最佳作品獎(雕塑)」 。作品在瑞士、台灣、香港及澳門展出。
Cathleen Ching Yee Lau is a Hong Kong-based artist who devotes to develop her artworks with a new concept in sculpting space. She engages in mixed-media sculpture, cross-media, and large-scale installation.
Cathleen graduated from the Hong Kong Art School (RMIT), majoring in sculpture. Her works are explored to breaking through the inertia of materials and constantly inventing “sustainable and renewable” materials. She is now molding and carving wood with inverted sawdust material, re-sculpting space with attention to materials and atmosphere. Create mixed-media sculptures and installations with different media carvings with new materials, light and shadow to present another sight of atmospheres, and through the audience integration.
Cathleen received the scholarship program in her Bachelor’s degree, Reaching Out Scholarship which took her to Japan in order to experience Japanese culture extensively. She has exhibited multiple works, awarded Directors Choice Award 2018 Human Rights Art Prize, and also exhibited in Affordable Art Fair Young Talent 2018. In 2016, she awarded with Selected Artwork Prize in Taipei Art Free Fair, and in 2015 awarded “The Best Art Work (Sculpture) ”. Her works have been exhibited in Switzerland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Artist Statement
我的創作關注城市中觀察到的自然生態，以自然暗喻人及社會的狀態，亦喜歡探討超自然與神秘力量。對我而言一種相反的特質是可以回應相生牽引的狀態。
在我的作品中，有古老意象及雕刻工藝的特質，創作中思考傳統的雕刻的突破性，並連接多媒體、觀眾及氣氛，雕刻整體空間。我的雕塑創作是不斷變形的，思考當代實體與虛擬變幻的時間平衡點。
In my artwork, I always attempt to display the natural phenomenon which I observed in the city as well as metaphorizing the status of humankind and society, and also likes to explore the supernatural and mysterious forces. I believe, the contrast trait is the status of being able to respond to mutual traction.
My artworks always presenting the characteristics of antique imagery and carving techniques. My works are about to question but inherited traditional carving sculpture, and connect with multi-media and audience in order to create the atmosphere to the overall space of carving. Thus, Thinking on The balance between the contemporary entity and contemporary virtual change on a form is one of the ironic element in my sculpture.
Education and Achievements
Education
2016 -2019
Hong Kong Art School (RMIT University)
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Major in Sculpture
2018
Alps Art Academy Land Art Program
2015
2015 Hong Kong Art School Higher Diploma in Fine Art，Major in Sculpture
Exhibitions
2019
Fresh Trend 2019 Art Graduates Joint Exhibition
Hong Kong Art School / RMIT Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art)Graduate Exhibition 2019
Eaton Hotel x Human Right Art Prize
Student Artwork at Fishpond-Diving Art Exhibition 2018: Art Together
2018
Human Right Art Prize 2018: The Hive Spring
Cul-De-Sac – Art School Gallery
Foo Tak Glamour pavilion: – ACO
Student Work at Art Safiental : Alps Art Academy, Switzerland
Affordable Art Fair – Young Talent
Please be aware of the uneven floor : Cattle Depot
2017
Dust Rat Run : Altermodernists
2017 South Island Art Day
Seeds in Spring : Open Call Selection for Exhibition at Ox Warehouse：Enter Please – Works by Cathleen Lau
2016
Taipei Art Free Fair ,Taipei
2015
Arts Oasis：Hong Kong Art School HDFA (Sculpture)
2015 Hong Kong Art School HDFA Graduation Showcase
Tokwawan Community Arts Harvest Exhibition
Awards
2019
Reaching Out Award : Self-financing Post-secondary Scholarship Scheme (SPSS) – Education Bureau
2018
Directors Choice Award 2018 Human Right Art Prize
2016
Selected Artwork Prize 2016 Taipei Art Free Fair
2015
Best Artwork (Sculpture) Higher Diploma in Fine Art
Others
2016-2020
ADC Art Space Selected Young Artist
Collection
2018
Wildness in Pawn
Cathleen Ching Yee Lau 