British Printmaker Wuon-Gean Ho to Present Public Lecture on Thursday October 13
Wuon-Gean Ho, editor of the IMPACT Printmaking Journal, published by the Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, UK, will present a public lecture on Thursday October 13 at 5:30pm in the McCarty Auditorium, room 109 of the Art and Architecture Building. The title of her lecture is “Talking of Time and Tide,” and will speak to how we have experienced time in recent years; how static images such as prints may fold elements of duration and tempo; and how the moving image might address embodiment and tactility. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
Wuon-Gean Ho was born in Oxford to Malaysian and Singaporean parents who moved to London in the 1960s to study. Her mother was a nurse and her father was a veterinarian. She graduated with a BA in History of Art from Cambridge University, before taking up a Japanese Government Scholarship in 1998 to study woodblock printmaking in Japan. She later studied MA Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, graduating with a distinction in 2016, and then was etching fellow at the Royal Academy Schools in London. She has held residencies at a number of institutions including the Caldera Arts Center, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Bluecoat Arts Centre and Aberystwyth School of Art. Examples of her work are displayed at both the National Art Library and the Tate Library. In 2014 she was commissioned by the Royal Mint to design their annual Lunar coin series for which she has done five years in a row. Her work, which is often narrative, investigates the use of relief printing, and also explores combinations of printmaking and animation. Her website is: wuongean.com
Ho will be working in the UTK Printmaking Studios from October 10-14 during which time she will create a print with the assistance of printmaking students and faculty.
Her visit is supported by the Haines-Morris Endowment in the College of Arts and Sciences, the UT School of Art and the Betsy Worden Endowment and is coordinated in conjunction with the Cinema Studies Program and Asian Studies.
For more information on her visit, contact Professor Koichi Yamamoto (kyamamo2@utk.edu).