Wuon Gean Ho, Wild West 01, 2007.
18 January – 15 April 2008
Life, death, memories and nostalgia are recurrent themes in much of Wuon Gean Ho’s work. As a practising vet, she sees death on a daily basis, and she has been moved to make work that shows her response to this. Wuon Gean Ho generates a storyline in response to events or surroundings and then makes a series of prints or bodies of work. Years later she may find herself coming back to old themes, as new ideas reassert themselves in her previous internal dialogue. The prints on exhibition in ‘First Step’ illustrate one such circle.
Wuon Gean Ho graduated with a BA in History of Art, and a professional licence as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. In between residencies in the US and Japan, she bases herself in London, working part time as a vet and making art part time in her studio in East London.
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