Photo by Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner at Wysing Arts Centre, 2024Alastair Kwan (b. 1993, Leeds, UK) explores his experiences as part of the British Hong Kong diaspora, investigating its aesthetics, contradictions and digging into its colonial roots. As part of this excavation, he draws on the inherent confusions experienced by diaspora, showing how these can form their own visual language. His practice is socially-engaged, bringing a variety of disciplines together from sculpture and drawing to cooking and growing. He uses the process of making as a form of direct action within different systems, challenging their assumptions and creating ‘living’ environments that change and evolve.
He is currently a resident artist at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire 2024-2025. He graduated from MA Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in 2021. He has exhibited widely including a solo presentation of CONGEE at the Southbank Centre (2023) alongside group shows at the Royal Institute of British Architects (2022), South London Gallery (2021). In 2021 he received the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors.
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