Jacky Cheng is an artist and an art educator based in Broome, Western Australia.
Jacky Cheng's work is fundamentally about identity and awareness through cultural activities and memories of home; country and relationships. Her significant concerns is about correlating and weaving narratives from her native experiences whilst mapping the esoteric and social relationships of her origins and her new found home, environment and social surroundings. Her awareness towards her Chinese heritage continues to question her notion of 'home' and 'belonging' - 'here and there' and the 'in between'. Her desire is to explore ideas and methodology of two extremities of the same continuum and simplicity in complexity that exist in her medium of choice.
BIOGRAPHY
Jacky Cheng was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She received her Bachelor of Architecture (Honours 1) from University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Jacky is an award-winning artist that exhibits regularly nationally, internationally and attended residencies in Finland, Spain, Japan and Australia. Her accolades include Judges Award at the Jury Art Prize 2021, Shinju Acquisitive Art Awards 2012, 2019 as well as finalist at multiple art awards. Jacky has collaborated internationally and locally in experiential and ephemeral art installations in Australia and Finland. Jacky will also be speaking at Artlands 2021, a national event that shines a spotlight on arts in regional Australia.
In 2020, Cheng was appointed lead artist for a percent for art through Government of WA in collaboration with Intensive Fields Lab (ifLAB) for the new entry piece for an education institution in WA. Jacky works across several mediums incorporating her philosophy of 'slow art' - a visual participatory, most notably through paper bas-relief sculptures. Her introduction into the manipulation of paper was highly influenced by her elders on cultural practices and duties performed for Chinese Ritual purposes. She has since amalgamated both architectonic and visual language using papers and fibres as the predominant mediums in her practice. Her award winning manual hand-cut paper enchantment is featured in ABC Makers and Creators segment 'The Paper Cutter', ABC Arts as well as numerous art feeds and articles locally and internationally.
Her teaching accolades includes both state and national awards in Best Trainer/Teacher of the Year in Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector bestowed by the prestigious Australia Training Awards as well as a finalist for the Curtin University Teaching Excellence Award by Awards Australia.
Today, Jacky continues to practice and teach on the lands and waters in and around Yawuru country, Northwest of Western Australia where she lives and work since 2006.
Jacky Cheng's work is fundamentally about identity and awareness through cultural activities and memories of home; country and relationships. Her significant concerns is about correlating and weaving narratives from her native experiences whilst mapping the esoteric and social relationships of her origins and her new found home, environment and social surroundings. Her awareness towards her Chinese heritage continues to question her notion of 'home' and 'belonging' - 'here and there' and the 'in between'. Her desire is to explore ideas and methodology of two extremities of the same continuum and simplicity in complexity that exist in her medium of choice.
BIOGRAPHY
Jacky Cheng was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She received her Bachelor of Architecture (Honours 1) from University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Jacky is an award-winning artist that exhibits regularly nationally, internationally and attended residencies in Finland, Spain, Japan and Australia. Her accolades include Judges Award at the Jury Art Prize 2021, Shinju Acquisitive Art Awards 2012, 2019 as well as finalist at multiple art awards. Jacky has collaborated internationally and locally in experiential and ephemeral art installations in Australia and Finland. Jacky will also be speaking at Artlands 2021, a national event that shines a spotlight on arts in regional Australia.
In 2020, Cheng was appointed lead artist for a percent for art through Government of WA in collaboration with Intensive Fields Lab (ifLAB) for the new entry piece for an education institution in WA. Jacky works across several mediums incorporating her philosophy of 'slow art' - a visual participatory, most notably through paper bas-relief sculptures. Her introduction into the manipulation of paper was highly influenced by her elders on cultural practices and duties performed for Chinese Ritual purposes. She has since amalgamated both architectonic and visual language using papers and fibres as the predominant mediums in her practice. Her award winning manual hand-cut paper enchantment is featured in ABC Makers and Creators segment 'The Paper Cutter', ABC Arts as well as numerous art feeds and articles locally and internationally.
Her teaching accolades includes both state and national awards in Best Trainer/Teacher of the Year in Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector bestowed by the prestigious Australia Training Awards as well as a finalist for the Curtin University Teaching Excellence Award by Awards Australia.
Today, Jacky continues to practice and teach on the lands and waters in and around Yawuru country, Northwest of Western Australia where she lives and work since 2006.
JC CV Aug 2021
