Jacky Cheng in Margaret River
Artist: Jacky Cheng
Work in progress
Location: Margaret River, Western Australia
Community partner: Margaret River Makers
About the artist:
Jacky Cheng is an artist and an art educator based in Broome, Western Australia. Cheng's work is fundamentally about identity and awareness through cultural activities and memories of home; country and relationships. Her significant concern are 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'. The 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.
About the community partner:
The Margaret River Makers was born from a vision to support and encourage makers of any form. It is a collective of emerging and professional dreamers that aim to contribute to their local community by pushing and supporting the individual abilities of their makers. Based at the Space in Margaret River, the studio offers pottery, film photography darkroom, sculpture, painting and printmaking facilities. Outside the studio it is fortunate to collaborate with local art organisations, The Farm, and Arts Margaret River.
Learn about Jacky Cheng’s process:
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky reflects on her work in progress presentation at Witch & Windmill, Witchcliffe
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky shares another update from Margaret River.
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky shares another update from Margaret River.
Jacky Cheng will be presenting works-in-progress from her Rural Utopias residency with the communities of Margaret River and Witchcliffe on Saturday 25 February.
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.
This weekend, Rural Utopias artist Jacky Cheng joins the John Curtin Gallery at Curtin University in an artist talk alongside Joshua Cocking, in which she will discuss her work ‘…that awaits at the end of life’, which recently awarded her the John Stringer Prize 2022. To follow, Jacky will facilitate a paper folding techniques and workshop, for a more tactile appreciation of her practice.
Congratulations to John Stringer Prize 2022 winner, Jacky Cheng, for her intricate installation …that awaits at the end of life. Jacky Cheng is currently part of Spaced’s Rural Utopias program.
Through Spaced’s programming, the concept of exchange is deeply important to the way we engage with artists and communities. Makers and locals alike have to opportunity to shape and influence discussions as they relate to a shared sense of place. In the case of Jacky Cheng, the life of the work she made during her Rural Utopias residency in Margaret River, continues to live on through this tender offering by Vivienne Garrett, in memory of B.
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.
Celebrating the Margaret River community, its stories, its makers and its shapers.
If you are in the Margaret River area you can drop in to see the work made by Spaced artist Jacky Cheng and the community as part of our Rural Utopias program.
Rural Utopias artists Alana Hunt and Jacky Cheng have been included as finalists in the seventy-eight artists from across Australia shortlisted for the 2022 National Works on Paper.
As part of Rural Utopias, Jacky Cheng working with the community of Margaret River will be facilitating a Japanese Stab Stitch Book Binding workshop.
Jacky Cheng is currently working with the community of Margaret River. This residency forms part of one of Spaced’s current programs, Rural Utopias.
Here, Jacky shares an update from Margaret River.
Congratulations to Jacky Cheng, current Rural Utopias artist, who has been awarded the 2022 John Stringer Prize.