Lost Identity - Katie

Size 610 x 910 x 40mm
Mixed media on canvas
Ready to hang.
Signed on the front.
All Sung's artworks are made using high quality pigments and paints. This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Concept of the artwork:

Lost Identity Katie is one of Sung’s ‘Lost Identity’ series.
This series explores her life's journey to find her cultural identity through people, colour, and shapes. It expresses the conflict of cultures, one of which she was born into and the other which she has adopted. Between these two differing cultures she feels she has lost her identity.

Sung paints her friends from various backgrounds wearing a traditional Korean costume called a ‘Han Bok’. Her work is somewhat realistic with an abstract twist. She also expresses her thoughts and emotions through colours and fragmented shapes. When she looks at images of people, she sees shapes made by lights and darkness where she visualises organic lines and forms. She interprets this through gestural lines and the flow of colours in a more abstract manner by placing fragmented organic shapes on somewhat representational subject matters.

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Sung Lee is a Sydney, Australia based contemporary painter, sculptor and mixed media artist. She has studied art most of her life and has graduated from the University of Sydney (Visual Arts). Initially, she began painting portraiture to establish her cultural identity. From there her work gradually developed to more abstract forms. She has expanded her artistic focus to the observation and appreciation of the natural world. As she travelled extensively, she became more aware of her surroundings and began to love nature and notice intricate details, which she translates into her art practice.

Sung has been awarded several times and was the recipient of a Merit Award in the Moreton Bay Art Prize, Brisbane Australia. She has exhibited her artwork in several group exhibitions including the “Fifth Perspective” in Fortitude Valley. She has also showcased her solo exhibition “Lost Identity” in Brisbane.

Sung's various original artworks and limited edition prints have been purchased for display in homes and offices throughout Australia, America and Europe. Her artwork has also been collected by several public sectors such as the Brisbane North Institute of Technical and Further Education and the Brisbane and Southbank Institutes of Technology.