Hong Kong Art: Visual Archive
| Chou, Irene 周綠雲 | |||||||||||
| Name in pinyin: Zhou Luyun | |||||||||||
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| Place of birth: Shanghai, China | |||||||||||
| Dates: 1924-2011 | |||||||||||
| Art Medium: painting | |||||||||||
| Zhou moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and immigrated to Australia in 1992. She obtained her BA degree in Economics in St. John’s University in Shanghai and worked as a reporter for the Peace Daily, Shanghai from 1946 to 1947. She was a teacher in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Hong Kong from 1976 to 1984. She has received three awards: Pacific Culture Asia Museum Fine Art Award (1972), Urban Council Fine Arts Award (1983), and Artist of the Year, Hong Kong (1988). Since 1968 Zhou had organized eight solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows in Hong Kong and overseas. Her work has been widely collected by museums in Hong Kong, Manila, Boston, Taipei, Brisbane, Melbourne and London. | |||||||||||
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| Longevity 長壽 (1950s) Chinese ink and colour on paper 92x54cm | The Tree 樹 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colours on paper 185x96cm | The Family 家庭 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 185x95cm | Composition IV 構圖四 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colours on paper 134.5x66cm | ||||||||
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| Remembering Mr. Lui 追憶呂壽琨先生 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 135x66cm | My Inner World 內在二 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 134x66cm | Movement I 旋律一 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 136.5x69.5cm | Movement III 旋律三 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 137x69cm | ||||||||
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| Spring 春色 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 177.5x96.5cm | Paradise Lost and Regained 夢幻的世界 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 180x97cm | The Eclipse 日蝕奇景 (date unknown) Chinese ink and colour on paper 176x69.5cm | Coda 尾聲 (1990) Chines ink and colours on paper 176x96.5cm | ||||||||
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| Untitled II 無題二 (1991) Chinese ink and colours on paper 176x96.5cm | Whirlwind 旋風 (1991) Chinese ink and colours on paper 176x96.5cm | Firmament 穹蒼 (1994) Ink on layered linen paper with mixed media 101x152cm | My First Australian Landscape 首張澳洲風景 (1995) Ink on layered linen paper with mixed media 152x101cm | ||||||||
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| Calm Peaceful and Creative 平和與創意 (1996) Ink on layered linen paper with mixed media 122x180cm | Life is but a Dream II 人生如夢之二 (1999) Ink on satin with mixed media 58x123cm | Irene’s Mini Work 5 綠雲小作5 (2001) Ink on rice paper with mixed media 38x38cm | The Universe is in my Mind 5 宇宙便是吾心之五 (2002) Ink on rice paper with mixed media 122x61cm | ||||||||
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