YEUNG Kwok-fan Margaret 楊國芬

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YEUNG Kwok-Fan, Margaret was born in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985, studied for a Master of Fine Arts in 2003 and a Doctor of Fine Arts in 2013 at RMIT University in Australia.

She started painting modern Chinese ink painting in 1986, and is now the Honorary Chairman of the “Hong Kong Modern Chinese Ink Painting Society”. She has held solo exhibitions and joined many joint exhibitions in different countries, and her artworks have been collected by various art museums. She has published two books, including the “Shadow Mural” in 2000 and the “Nature Chasing” in 2001. Margaret Yeung creates her artwork through digital coding from the Chinese keyboard. She generates the “crackled wall texture stroke” by computer software, demonstrating the destruction of Chinese culture in the Computer Age. Through integrating Chinese painting with computer technology, she has committed herself to exploring the “hybridity” and “harmoniousness” between them.

楊國芬，生於香港，1985年中文大學藝術學士，2003年澳洲墨爾本皇家理工大學藝術碩士，2013年澳洲墨爾本皇家理工大學藝術博士。86年起從事現代水墨畫創作，現為「香港現代水墨畫會」名譽會長。曾舉辦多次個展及參加多項海內外聯展，作品為各地藝術館收藏，曾於2000年出版《影壁-----陳君立、楊國芬的繪畫藝術》，並於2001年著《寫生日記》一書。

楊氏運用現代水墨技法，展示香港人常用電腦鍵盤打中文字，影響文字「因形知義」的特點，表現西方資訊科技對中國文化的衝擊。畫中的倉頡輸入碼，以破舊牆壁上的自然裂痕形式出現，象徵中國舊文化的裂變。作品表現出時代性和地域性的特點，以及畫家對文化的關注，並試圖找出水墨文化與電腦文化結合所呈現的「混雜性」及「和諧性」。