Hoo Fan Chon is a Malaysian visual art practitioner based in George Town, Penang. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe the oscillations and toggles between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow.

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Hoo Fan Chon (b. 1982) is a Malaysian visual art practitioner based in George Town, Penang. By reframing everyday life with irony and wry humour, his works observe oscillations and assimilations between social classes, the official and the informal, the highbrow and the lowbrow.

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The Blue & White Collection



Article # 1 - Butter Dish Article # 3 - Teacup Article # 4 - Teapot Article # 5 - Serviette Holder Article # 6 - Cheese Dish Article # 7 - Gravy Pot Article # 9 - Cake Stand Article # 10 - Bath Article # 11 - Chamber Pot


Exhibitions:
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition
2015 Sept, Jeonbuk Province Art Museum (Jeounbuk, KOR)

Saatchi New Sensations Exhibition
2010 Oct, Cornwall Terrace, Regents Park (London, UK)

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The Blue & White Collection

Set of 9 digital C‐type prints, 20’’ x 24’’, edition 5 + 1 AP, 2010-2012


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Awards:

Finalist for Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4 - New Sensations 2010

Selected for The Photographers’ Gallery’s 2010  Fresh Faced + Wild Eyed competition for recent UK photography graduates
This work responds to the Willow Pattern invented by English craftsmen in the late eighteenth century. I am interested in how a foreign culture can be appropriated and translated into a form of exotic collectibles, subconsciously tucked into the local culture. In response, I chose to create a set of paper earthen-ware printed with cyanotype and embellished with imaginary landscapes made up by oriental architec-tural structures found within the UK. This process challenges cyanotype’s association with blueprint by positing the question of origin and the sense of fluidity and instability of culture.

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