Jacquie Meng

About the work

The works I have made for the Canberra Biennial consider identity through the migration of objects and imagery through time and space, and how these things can reflect specific moments and memories .  My painting practice is a way of mapping locationality through a web of lived and imagined experiences.  In “My First Billboard”, a self portrait painting enlarged and displayed on a wall in Verity Lane, I reference childhood toys, personal hierlooms, and imagined landscapes formed by a combination of patterns seen in objects and fashion. In “Floor Clock”, also to be blown up and displayed on the wall in Verity Lane, idiosyncratic encounters with the pavement I’ve walked on come together to form motifs of time, play, and movement, as well as paying homage to places in time, most notably sideway bar (through its logo being visible in the painting).

Viewers will be able to see the original paintings at Bar Rochford (City) and Paranormal Wines (Campbell).

Image credits to the artist

About the artist

Jacquie Meng (b.1998, Hangzhou) works with painting, sound, and installation. Her work
redefines diasporic cultural identity beyond national and geographical specificities, rather
seeing it as unfixed. Through consideration of posthumanism, performativity, and the
migration of objects and imagery between cultures, Meng breaks down binaries of
“East”/”West”, real/imagined, and human/non-human. This often involves a fusing of
mythology and folklore with memories, fictions, and contemporary aesthetics.
Meng was awarded the Brett Whitely travelling scholarship in 2021, was a finalist in the
churchie Emerging Art Prize at the IMA, and was a part of PICA’s Hatched 2022. In 2023,
she completed two overseas artist residencies, at Kunstraum in New York (April-July) and
Pilotenkueche International Art Program Leipzig (July-September). Meng is represented by
Stanley Street Gallery