Website: www.ngaining.com
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My practice explores the notion of ‘home’, not as a fixed location but as an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through shadow. As an oil painter, I am interested in the philosophies of home as investigated through a phenomenological lens. I like to employ the motific nature of domestic landscapes and the liminality of light and space to create tangible tension, a collective aloneness reflective of the dichotomy between the inner mind and the exterior world.
Drawing from photographs and past places I have inhabited, my figures are never directly depicted but appear as silhouettes or obscured forms, echoes of nostalgia and loss. I like to draw comparisons between memory and light: fleeting, disappearing almost as soon as it appears, yet in the moment they can trigger recollections of a past time and place. Silhouettes fade with the departing light, and the light itself holds a timeless, archival quality that contrasts the liminality of shadows. I often paint former family homes at a transitional hour, using shifting light, shadow and fragmented space to evoke instability and loss. My paintings hence become nostalgic homes for memory itself, situated between what was, what remains, and what is lost.
EDUCATION
2025 First Class Honours Fine Art Bachelors at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London
2022 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Specialist Art - Painting), University of the Arts London
2021 International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, Discovery College
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
15 - 19 Oct 2025 - Recent Graduates Exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair, London
23 Oct - 1 Nov 2025 - Delphian Open Call Winners Exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery, London
24 Oct - 22 Nov 2025 - The Graduate Art Show at The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury
SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - ‘for a lot of little reasons’ at The Axe, London
2025 - ‘Resonance’ at The Axe, London
2025 - 'Vital Void' at Tiderip Gallery, London
2025 - 'Love Me Tender' group exhibition at Lambs Tail Gallery, London
2025 - Undergraduate Degree Show at Camberwell College of the Arts, London
2025 - 'Home' group exhibition at Arbeit Gallery, London
2025 - 'Open House' group exhibition at Winns Gallery, London
2025 - 'Walls of Anubis' group exhibition at The Crypt Gallery, London
2025 - The Other Art Fair with Riot Soup at Truman Brewery, London
2025 - 'What Now' group exhibition at Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, London
2024 - ‘Renters!’ group exhibition at Safehouse 1, Peckham, London
2024 - ‘Days Bygone, Days To Come’ co-curated and co-developed group exhibition at hArtslane Gallery, New Cross, London
2024 - ‘Milk and Honey’ poetry-inspired group exhibition at Brixton Library, London
2024 - Affordable Art Fair UK with Made in Arts London at Hampstead Heath, London
2024 ‘Coalesce’ group exhibition at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London
2024 - ‘The Essence of Being’ self-developed and curated group exhibition at 30 Millbank, London
2023 - ‘Round Table’ 「圓桌」collaboratively curated group exhibition at Belsize Community Library, London
2023 - ‘In Between What Once Was’ - co-curated group exhibition at SU gallery space, Camberwell College of the Arts, London
2023 - ‘The Space Between‘ group exhibition at TM Lighting Gallery, London
2023 - ‘A Sense Of Place’ group exhibition at Ogilvy, Southwark, London
2023 - ‘Before Now, After Then’ group exhibition at Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, Southwark, London
2020 - group exhibition of finalist artworks of Sovereign Arts Foundation Student Prize art competition at ‘Fine Art Asia’, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2016-2020 - six solo exhibitions held at Art Square, Discovery Bay Pier, Hong Kong
2019 - exhibition for winning artworks of “Sincerely Me - inspired by Pan Yu Lin” art competition at Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society, Hong Kong
2016 - womens-only ‘Art on the Line’ group exhibition and silent auction hosted by the American Women’s Association at The Space, Hong Kong
2015 - ‘I Love’ solo art exhibition at Artland Gallery, Hong Kong
AWARDS
2020 - Finalist in the Sovereign Art Students Prize
2020 - Recipient of a Visual Arts Scholarship
2019 - First Prize winner of Asia Society’s ‘Sincerely Me - Inspired by Pan Yu Lin’ art competition
2019 - Shortlisted for the UOB ‘Art in Ink Awards’
2018 - Finalist in the Young Artists Development Fund’s ‘Hong Kong Territory-wide Youths Painting Day’