June Chen: Becoming

In this solo exhibition, emerging talent June Chen reveals an artistic journey of personal transformation, emancipation, and her ultmate becoming. 

Featuring drawing, painting and multi-faceted mixed media works, Chen’s art reckons with notions of identity from the perspective of a young Chinese Australian woman. Powerful charcoal drawings that examine the father-daughter relationship reflect on how cultural norms and familial authority impact behaviour and self-perception. In other works, Chen draws upon the complex cultural significance of hair through her representation of long, twisted or plaited hair, evoking both psychological entanglement and feminine power. Throughout this visceral exhibition Chen asserts individual agency against a backdrop of cultural containment, as the body becomes a vehicle for both tension and release.

Exhibition Opening 
Saturday 14 November, 1-3pm

To attend the Exhibition Opening, please RSVP to artgallery@whitehorse.vic.gov.au

Please enter the Whitehorse Art Gallery through the dedicated Gallery entrance on the east side of the Box Hill Town Hall, as there is a festival taking place in the Box Hill Town Hall on Saturday 14 November. 

Parking around the Box Hill Town Hall will be limited but there is paid parking available at the nearby Salvos and Box Hill Library carparks on Bank St, and Care Park at 5 Watts St, Box Hill has free parking all weekend. The Gallery is also a short walk from Box Hill central train and tram stops.