Archive of work by graduates from the renowned MFA Programme at GSA

Degree Show installation view
2013
3 Epicentres
Three spinning tops [fragments of bones, audio CD (sound of Pacific plate moving 2.4m east) and video DVD (YouTube upload: 3.11 Tsunami at 15:30), resin, glitters, acrylic], motors, speakers, filing cabinets
Dimensions variable
2013
Roaming in the Zone, Fukushima
Oil and acrylic on linen
183 x 183 cm
2013
What on Earth is Happening (installation view)
Twenty-two 35mm glass mounted slide projection
2013
What on Earth is Happening
Twenty-two 35mm glass mounted slide projection
2013

Gabriel Leung

b. 1983 in Hong Kong, China

Leung received his BFA in photography, from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. In 2011, he was awarded Scotland’s Saltire Scholarship to pursue a MFA degree at the Glasgow School of Art, UK. Leung currently lives and works in Glasgow.

Recent exhibitions and projects include An Eye for An I, New City Space, Glasgow; Perfectly at Home, New City Space, Glasgow; Southside Film Festival 2012, Glasgow; Beyond the Wall – 2012 Jeonju Photo Festival (Contemporary Chinese Photography), S. Korea; Transnational Art 2012, Osaka Contemporary Art Centre, Osaka.

Statement

My work draws upon my interpretation of events covered by the mass media. I work intensely on observing in particular, but not limited to, the use of the photographic image within large-scale events that attract international media coverage. Through the process of appropriating materials from the Internet, TV, newspaper and anything in between, all these have become my medium. To analyze the transmission and reception of information that we access or forced upon, my practice undergoes an operation of unpicking information. This methodology reflects how my experience on encountering certain events may expand to differ or connect with other people. Questioning the contingencies in everyday life is central to my practice. Therefore, my subject matter is also chosen by its connectedness with our human condition to uncertainty. In the form of painting, photography, sculpture and projected installation, my medium is selected to best translate such uncertainty.