The 1999 Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarships
| Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren |
Artist: HAHN NGO
Surname Viet - given name Kieu (detail) 1998
installation with tapestry
15 x 10 cm (tapestry)
© the artist
Identity Badges 1997
installation of twenty-seven tapestries
each 18 x 18 cm
© the artist
Hanh Ngo is motivated to grapple with the discrepancies of autobiographical reconstruction, however resists the cool, seductive remove of photographic documentation to find an earthier, and ultimately more controversial means of "decoding" fragments of Vietnamese Diasporic memory. She offers up pieces of richly pigmented tapestries, hand-crafted with signs and decorative patterns that are dislocated from their linguistic grammar, from a literature that knits social drama and poetic tragedy out of human grunts, shrieks and sighs. Here Ngo speaks of both Vietnamese and Australian language, giving voice to the alienated Viet Kieu, a Vietnamese expatriate, an outsider to her country of origins, an insider to her land of emigration.
Caught in complex warp of past and present, Ngo defiantly weaves an indigenous Vietnamese craft tradition into International Art practice, in order to capture the texture and history of psychological dislocation.
M.A. Greenstein
from her Samstag catalogue essay;
Back to the Future - From Wry to Rave
| Hanh Ngo Born 1971, Kien Giang, Vietnam |
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| 1999 | Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship Graduate Program, Hanoi, Institute of Fine Arts, Vietnam |
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| 1997 | Master of Arts (Visual Arts), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra | |
| 1993 | Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra |
| Paul Hoban | Hanh Ngo | Deborah Paauwe | Matthew Warren |