Gayle Chong Kwan

Gayle Chong Kwan is an artists who's work is very large scale and based around photography and installation. She wants her work to be a sensory experience having the audience fully immersed in what surrounds them, affecting their emotions with them reacting to colours sounds and smells. She is said to create landscapes and environments.

I am massively inspired by Gayle Chong Kwans work I think it is incredible. The way her installations are set up to take over an area and the audiences emotions. I like the way her work is also made up of waste material, she creates something beautiful out of something not that beautiful.

I think the way that people are fully surrounded by her work is great, I would love to be bale to take over everyones senses and create a totally new experience for them. I think the curation of a project is one of the main part and if I were to create a show to exhibit my work Chong Kwan would be the first person I would look to for inspiration. The ideas she explores within her work are also fascinating looking at the relationship between reality and fiction and the exploration of myths. I think I am going to keep coming back to her work for inspiration going forward.




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