Delighted that Cathay Pacific has my work in their business class cabins. Cedar made a film about my art and how I am looking increasingly towards my Hong Kong heritage and family history. The film features my mother’s ancestral halls in HK and I discuss how being 29th generation Cheung will be one of the motivating themes of my solo show with GDM gallery in HK March 2025.
Cathay Pacific Gallery in the sky article by Evelyn Lok (full interview online) - excerpt: British-Chinese artist Gordon Cheung ’s work is all about asking questions. Painting a nuanced picture of his inquisitive process, his art evinces an ongoing search for understanding in the world’s histories and, at the same time, deeper recognition of his own Hong Kong roots.
“I think my sense of belonging has always been in a kind of conflict, in respect to being British and Chinese,” Cheung says. “But I came to terms with that. I’m immersed in British culture, but over the decades it has increasingly become more about looking at my Chinese identity – trying to comprehend it, and discovering that I have very profound reasons to do so.”
Film commissioned by Cedar Content. Additional film footage by Adrian Varzaru. Photos by Mike Pickles. Edited by Ella Pleasant. Special thanks to Henry Artsy, Alan Lo, Inez Suen, and Galerie du Monde.
‘Gallery in the skies’ is a curated collection of 30 artworks to be displayed in their Boeing 777-300ER Business cabins.
Read the article here.
Watch the full video here.
Engraved Moon and Unfolding Clouds (Chongqing), 2023
Signed & dated
Financial newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic and sand on linen
150 x 200 x 5 cm
59 x 78 1/2 x 2 in
New Order Vase of Flowers (after Margareta Haverman, c. 1716), 2022
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Giclée on canvas
100 x 75 cm
39 1/2 x 29 1/2 in