All about Wilson Shieh 石家豪

Wilson is a painter who trained with Chinese fine-brush (gongbi) technique. He focuses on human bodies as his theme for narration. Transforming figuration by means of tailor-made costumes, the identity of modern people is always in query in his art world. More
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 

2001

MFA, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

1994

BA, Fine Arts major, The Chinese University of Hong Kong


RECENT SOLO / TWO-PERSONS EXHIBITIONS
2013
Wilson Shieh... Sumbody - Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

2012
Wilson Shieh Live in Soho - Osage Soho, Hong Kong



Wilson Shieh Studio, Fotan District, Hong Kong

2011
Mortal Coil - Wilson Shieh - Osage Soho, Hong Kong
Donna Ong, Jane Lee, Wilson Shieh - Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan


RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Hong Kong Eye - ArtisTree, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 - Hong Kong Museum of Art

2012

Market Forces - Osage Kwun Tong Gallery, Hong Kong
Ink- The Art of China - Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.

2011

 Legacy and Creations - “Ink Art vs Ink Art” and “Art vs Art” - Hong Kong Museum of Art


From the above, we can see that Wilson's portfolio is full of his passion towards arts. His artwork is not only restricted to Chinese fine-brush, but also including othee elements and technique. We can take a look on his recent artworks.

 

This artwork is called Where did you Die?, which is based on 4 Rock and Roll stars showing the place where they die. He makes use of collage on cardboard to finish the work.



 

Also, Wilson expresses his feeling and comments on the political issues through his artworks. The above two artworks shows that Wilson has his own thinking towards Hong Kong's political issues.

The left one shows the real situation of nowadays Hong Kong society. As we all know, the issue of developer hegemony has aroused a heated discussion among the society. This work shows that there is a LI's CITY, which implies the reality of Hong Kong society. No matter which industries in Hong Kong such as ports, retailing, power and media, they are dominated by Mr. Li solely. Wilson reflects the truth of the domination by painting this artwork.

 

For the right one, it mentions the political structre of China government and Hong Kong. It is supposed that the political system of Hong Kong is separated from that in China according to the Basic Law. However, in recent, more intreventions in policy implementation are posed by the China government. Thus, we can see there are some political parties located in different locations as drew by Wilson such as Connaught Road, West Kennedy Road and Upper Albert Road, which are the locations of economic and financial centre in Hong Kong. It shows that Chinese government is going to control Hong Kong step by step. Thats what Wilson wants to say.

 

 

Wilson Shieh's artwork in Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012

I have visited the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012 in the Hong Kong Art Museum. It includes the Wilson Shieh's artwork. As we all know, Wilson is famous about his meticulous painting. He likes to use pencil to draw his artwork, but in this artwork he makes some breakthrough. He uses colour pencil, crayon and collage on paper to finish this work. This painting's size is quite large so it is quite difficult for him to use those small colour pencil and crayon to finish the painting.

 

The title of this painting is "八公返學". The theme of this painting is that Wilson wants to show the relationship between the education received and the policies imposed by different past-yearly Chinese presidents. He wanted to find out that how the education received can change the mindset of these politicians. There are eight persons in total and each of them receiving different types of education in the early ages. They are the most important politicians in China in recent few hundred years. Take Dr. Sun Yat-sen as an example. He went to Hawaii for study when he was young so Wilson wrote the Hawaiian letter on the top of the painting. Also, we can see that Dr. Sun took a Bible in his hand, which means that he was studying in a Christianity school so that he absorbed the concept of "Everyone should be treated fairly" from Christian behavior. This affected his thinking and ideas when he incurred the "Political Revolution" and established the "National Government".

Each presidents has different characteristics, such as carrying a sword reflecting Chiang Kai Shek was a soldier. Also we can discover that the clothing of presidents in later stage is more or less the same as a formal dressing with a suit and tie. This reflects the education level in China was getting higher and higher.