Cleo Ding
‘Dragonboat’ 2024, Collage of digital drawings, colour inkjet printed on five joined sheets of grey paper, and pastel with smudging and erasing, 65cm x 300cm.
Artist statement
As an artist from the Asian diaspora, I am interested in the expression and compression of information within cyberspace, facilitating the transformation of culture and identity. My practice depicts William Gibson's cyberspace as hallucinations of billions in unthinkable complexity, through fragmented characters and environments that intersect in neo-expressionist glitch abstraction. Multiple digital drawings over photographs of 3D self-scans are printed and blended with soft pastels into a singular landscape work, creating maximalist, zany digital aesthetics in a panoptic science-fiction narrative. The embedded self underneath the glitch evolves into an unexpected narrative mirroring the fusion of self and culture.
Acknowledgement of Country
UNSW School of Art & Design stands on an important place of learning and exchange first occupied by the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples.
We acknowledge the Bidjigal and Gadigal peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land that our students and staff share, create and operate on. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and extend this respect to all First Nations peoples across Australia. Sovereignty has never been ceded.
