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Artists|藝術家

王筱雯 / Annie Hsiao– Wen Wang

(1979~ )她的作品表現在於傳達人生歷經折苦後的能量釋放,在平塗的筆觸下,刷出細膩的漸層調性,彷彿透過一次次反覆疊上油料的動作,沉澱心靈的雜質,洗滌俗務的紛沓。

王筱雯(1979 –  ,台北) 早年移民澳洲,獲得物理、機械工程雙學位,2002年至礦業公司工作,然而這條理工之路卻對她產生極大的心理衝突,因此以半工半讀的方式研習藝術,2008年再取得ECU大學視覺藝術學位,並獲得澳洲國家視覺藝術獎、澳洲年輕畫家藝術獎的肯定。其作品為澳洲的大學、國家醫院、大飯店,以及中國天津大飯店和數個國家的私人收藏。

從她的抽象油畫裡可看到深邃的空間感,有如攝影鏡頭,將焦距放到極大,捕捉黑暗中的光影,呈現靜宓空靈的氛圍。她的作品表現在於傳達人生歷經折苦後的能量釋放,在平塗的筆觸下,刷出細膩的漸層調性,彷彿透過一次次反覆疊上油料的動作,沉澱心靈的雜質,洗滌俗務的紛沓。

王筱雯從小學習禪修,亦擁有諮商師執照,使她的作品具有「療癒系」的特徵,期冀觀者能透過她的作品,與自我的心靈對話,如同在人生的迷霧抹上一道「靈光」,繪出內在宇宙的星雲。

 
Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang‘s Origins: Away and Within
 
Annie is a profound and deeply introspective artist who produces work free from narrative, realism, and critical analysis. Annie gives us a vision. A vision, hazy and immense, pulled from deep within herself. Her work is abstract and ephemeral, and yet, it conveys a feeling both familiar and eternal.
 
Annie's unique aesthetic is created through an easy tension between a soft smokey atmosphere and the presence of a light that, while obscured, is emerging from the within the work. The result is a mood of both great mystery and depth. Furthermore, as the light emerges, it produces a natural gradation of colour that is rich in movement and life. Shapes appear which are beyond the descriptive capabilities of Western geometry. These shapes merge with one another before disappearing from the mind's eye. It produces within the viewer an experience of the form without form, the nothing that contains everything.
 
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1978, Annie and her parents emigrated to Australia when she was 11 years old. She completed a double major in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. After working off and on as an engineer for six years, she grew weary and dissatisfied with the logical and precise thinking found within scientific disciplines and returned to the artistic pursuits she had abandoned upon entering university. She received her Bachelors in Contemporary Art from Edith Cowan University as well as studying art therapy, obtaining her counsellor's license.
 
It was the work and words of Kandinsky that truly acted as a catalyst for Annie's transformation into an artist. Kandinsky famously said, "The true work of art is born from the artist: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation…animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being." After Annie found Kandinsky, it was as though a seed, planted in her mind long ago, had begun to bloom.
 
Annie's artistic development continued after a religious experience wherein she lost interest in form and shape and began instead to focus on colour and space. Her paintings may initially appear random, but they are anything but. They are created through a lengthy process of layering paint and glazing that mirrors Annie's long voyage of inner exploration. At the end of these journeys, Annie has peeled back the initial layers of passionate creativity to show the heart that beats at the centre of inspiration. What she reveals is a vision of light and space, exquisite and vast, chaotic and yet in perfect order.
 
Annie's personal philosophy is rooted in the ideas which underly Eastern meditation practice, a central tenet of which is the belief in the intuitive experience of the immeasurable. This type of philosophy is in direct opposition to the West's more mechanical modes of thought that Annie has spent so long studying. Indeed, within her work you find an artist that is freeing herself from the binds of materialistic thought in order to embrace a philosophy based on intuition and mindfulness. It is here where we find the  work's great appeal to the contemporary viewer; it produces a sense of vitality and divine mystery that our daily lives sorely need. Her paintings act as gateways through which we can leave the constraints of materialism and rational thought and return to the true self, from which we can never be split. Indeed, she produces within the viewer a metaphysical state, free of life's burdens, and distinctly rejuvenating. This palliative effect of Annie's work is perhaps a result of her training as an art therapist and her continued interest in alleviating people's suffering.   
 
In recent years, Annie's work has begun to receive its due. In 2009, she won the City of Joondalup Invitation Art Judges Award and the Cossack Art Award. In 2010, she won the High Commendation Award and the Wilson Visual Art Award. In 2012, she once again won the High Commendation Award. Her works have been exhibited and collected in the United States, Hongkong, China, Taiwan and Australia. These awards and exhibitions reflect the great promise evident in Annie's work. More importantly though, after all the awards and applause, Annie continues to seek out and embrace the sound of the silence within.
 
Though young in age, Annie is an old soul, capable of understanding the subtle contradictions within Eastern philosophy. As Lao-Tzu said, "Each separate being in the universe, returns to the common source, returning to the source is serenity." Annie's work is inextricably interwoven with this profound precept. It seeks a way back to the source with a serenity that appreciates the metaphysical without defining it, embraces the infinite with neither pretension nor expectation. Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang‘s current exhibition, Origins, is one beautiful step on her path towards her representing, and ultimately understanding, the eternal essence within us all.
王筱雯
Annie Hsiao– Wen Wang

1979     出生於台北 台灣
旅澳 藝術家
 
個展
2017     
台灣台北YesArt Air Gallery意識畫廊/ Silent Songs靜宓的樂章
2015     台灣台北YesArt Air Gallery意識畫廊/覓
2014     澳洲雪梨Spot81藝廊/夢
2013     台灣台北YesArt Air Gallery/源
2013     澳洲雪梨Syndicate藝廊/靜
2012     澳洲墨爾本Shell大樓/王筱雯
2012     香港Gaffer 藝廊/新作品
2011     台灣台北上古藝術買得起博覽會/王筱雯
2011     香港Gaffer 藝廊/慢
2010     澳洲西澳伯斯美術館/輝
2005     澳洲西澳小精靈啤酒廠/共鳴

團體展


2017   福爾摩莎藝術博覽會,松菸文創園區,台北,台灣   
2016    Art Central香港藝術中心博覽會,中環,香港
2015    澳洲雪梨新南威爾士州美術館/薩勒曼獎(Sulman Prize)展覽
2015    澳洲新南威爾士州梅特蘭美術館/紙張作品
2015    台灣台中世界畫廊/禮記-下

2015    台灣台北喜來登大飯店/國際當代藝術博覽會
2015    台灣台中日月千禧酒店/台中藝術博覽會
2015    台灣台北寒舍艾麗酒店/福爾摩沙國際藝術博覽會
2014    台灣台北YesArt Air Gallery/YES 藝術家聯展
2014    台灣高雄The Pier-2 Art Center/高雄藝術博覽會
2014    台灣台中世界畫廊/2014當代抽象展
2014    澳洲雪梨新南威爾士州美術館/薩勒曼獎(Sulman Prize)展覽
2014    澳洲雪梨/Blake藝術大獎入選展覽

2014    香港港麗酒店/亞洲當代藝術展
2014    台灣台北晶華酒店/國際當代藝術博覽會
2014    澳洲雪梨Spot81藝廊/藍
2014    澳洲新南威爾士州/Calleen藝術大獎入選展覽
2014    澳洲新南威爾士州/Muswellbrook攝影大獎入選展覽
2014    澳洲雪梨當代藝術館/澳洲原住民基金慈藝拍賣會
2013    美國紐約See展覽中心/曝光2013
2013    澳洲雪梨新南威爾士州美術館/溫尼獎(Wynne Prize)展覽

2013    台灣台中世界畫廊/本來無一物─2013當代抽象展
2013    澳洲雪梨瑪麗地美術館/Paddington Art Prize展覽
2013    香港香港會議展覽中心/香港買得起博覽會
2012    澳洲墨爾本Paradise Hills藝廊/團體展
2013    澳洲墨爾本Toyota藝廊/新藝術家展覽
2013    台灣台北YesArt Air Gallery/停下來 能看見
2012    美國邁阿密SCOPE國際藝術博覽會/1001藝術家方案
2012    澳洲墨爾本St Patrick學院/Flanagan藝術大獎入選展覽
2012    澳洲雪梨Trinity天主教學院/Wilson視覺藝術大獎入選展覽
2012    澳洲墨爾本Paradise Hills藝廊/仙境團體展
2012    香港Gaffer藝廊/六位墨爾本的藝術家
2012    澳洲墨爾本Menzies藝廊/Lasallian基金慈藝拍賣會
2011    美國洛杉磯會議中心/第十六屆洛杉磯美術展

2011    台灣台北飛馳中藝術/飛馳中藝術市集
2011    澳洲墨爾本MiFA國際藝廊/2011年度團體展
2011    澳洲雪梨/Blake藝術大獎入選展覽
2011    澳洲墨爾本市政廳藝廊/貪婪
2011    澳洲墨爾本柯陵伍藝廊/2011年度Rob McNamara大展
2011    澳洲墨爾本布倫瑞克街藝廊/Click 11藝術攝影大獎
2011    澳洲墨爾本天鵝街藝廊/天鵝街展
2011    澳洲雪梨格里菲斯藝廊/卡塞拉藝術大獎
2010    澳洲西澳哥薩克/哥薩克藝術大獎
2010    澳洲西澳波斯伍德國際大飯店/藝術態度展覽
2010    澳洲西澳波斯伍德國際大飯店/年輕藝術家之藝術態度入選決賽
2010    澳洲西澳庫伯藝廊/公平貿易展覽
2010    澳洲西澳維斯/維斯藝術大獎
2010    澳洲西澳沃費格咖啡館/駐館藝術攝影展
2009    澳洲西澳約達拉普市/約達拉普市藝術邀請大獎入選決賽
2009    澳洲西澳光譜藝術空間/不協調的自然
2009    澳洲西澳哥薩克/哥薩克藝術大獎
2009    澳洲西澳波斯伍德國際大飯店/藝術態度展覽
2009    澳洲西澳波斯伍德國際大飯店/年輕藝術家之藝術態度入選決賽
2009    澳洲西澳庫伯藝廊/公平貿易展覽
2008    澳洲西澳伯斯攝影中心/揮手非溺水
2008    澳洲西澳光譜藝術空間/8.08
2008    澳洲西澳光譜藝術空間/孟加拉2008
2008    澳洲西澳庫伯藝廊/公平貿易展覽
2008    澳洲西澳伯爾/比駐館藝術展
2007    澳洲西澳庫伯藝廊/藍
2007    澳洲西澳舊柏林/舊柏林藝術家聯盟合展
2007    澳洲西澳庫伯藝廊/公平貿易展覽
2006    澳洲西澳蒙洛麗/簡單最好
2006    澳洲西澳庫伯藝廊/紅
2006    澳洲西澳歐派克動力展示間/藝術家聯盟首展
2006    澳洲西澳貢博次雕塑藝廊公園/貢博雕塑精華展
2005-6澳洲西澳艾托酒館/駐館藝術展
2005    澳洲西澳瘋藝術節/北橋之窗展覽
2005    澳洲西澳投影小館/給予

媒體、報導
2014    澳洲Belle Magazine, 2014年11月
2014    澳洲雪梨South Sydney Herald, 2014年7月15日
2014    澳洲Sixtoeight.net, 2014年9月18日
2013    台灣藝術收藏+設計,「由除魅到復魅−王筱雯的歸根」,鄭芳和,2013年7月
2013    台灣今藝術,吳樹安,2013年7月
2013    台灣人間福報,「王筱雯的畫作  空靈見禪意」,王叡嫻,2013年7月18日
2013    台灣自由時報,「品味當代藝術風采」,高嘉聆,2013年7月28日
2013    香港亞洲藝術新聞,第23卷第4期,2012年7月/8月
2013    台灣台北時報,2013年8月2日
2013    澳洲國報,2013年3月1日
2013    澳洲ArtsHub,2013年2月21日
2012    香港電台RTHK, Morning Brew with Phil Whelan, 2012年5月17日
2012    美國Coco Eco雜誌,2012年9/10月
2012    香港亞洲藝術新聞,第22卷第3期,2012年5月/6月
2012    香港、中國、台灣Pipeline,2012年5月
2012    香港藝廊指南,2012年1月
2011    香港亞洲藝術新聞,第21卷第6期,2011年11月/12月
2011    香港藝廊指南,2011年12月
2011    香港雜誌,2011年12月
2011    美國MutualArt.com,2011年11月
2011    新加坡The Pocket Arts Guide,2011年11月
2011    香港、中國、台灣Pipeline,2011年11月
2011    澳洲ArtsHub,2011年9月
2011    澳洲Progess Leader報,2011年10月9日
2011    澳洲南伯斯季刊,2011年9月春季
2011    台灣Sogoart藝術與投資,No. 10,2010年10月15日
2011    美國洛杉磯藝術ICN電視台-第十六屆洛杉磯美術展
2010    澳洲西澳洲報-「每人一點」R.史賓瑟著,2010年10月15日
2010    香港亞洲藝術新聞,第20卷第5期,2010年9月/10月
2010    澳洲西澳專業藝術雜誌,2010年9月16日
2010    澳洲洞察力雜誌,2010年春季刊
2009    澳洲藝術月刊,N.史瓦玆博士,2009年9月
2009    澳洲西澳洲報-「丁字褲上的祈禱」R.史賓瑟著,2009年9月18日
2009    澳洲西澳專業藝術雜誌,「不自然的身體」J.巴爾著,2009年9月10日
2011    澳洲ArtsHub,2009年10月19日
2009    澳洲衛報,2009年9月8日
2009    澳洲ABC電視台,2009年9月
2009    澳洲走出伯斯,2009年9月
2009    澳洲news.com.au,2009年9月16日
2009    澳洲西澳洲報-7天-2009年7月25日
2009    澳洲西澳洲報-2009年7月18日,第8頁
2009    澳洲南方公報,2009年7月7日,第14頁
2008    澳洲「領導者」,G.普賴爾(編輯)
2008    澳洲南方公報,2008年6月24日,第14頁
2008    澳洲快報雜誌,1113期,2008年6月
2008    澳洲走出伯斯,81期,2008年6月
2008    澳洲快報雜誌,1111期,2008年5月29日
2008    澳洲西澳周日時報- 2008年5月4日
2008    澳洲AMR郵件-2008年4月27日
2006    澳洲藝術牆-2006年11月

得獎紀錄


2015   澳洲薩勒曼獎(Sulman Prize)入選
2014   澳洲薩勒曼獎(Sulman Prize)入選
2014   澳洲Calleen藝術大獎入選
2014   澳洲Muswellbrook攝影大獎入選
2013   澳洲Blake藝術大獎入選
2013   澳洲溫尼獎(Wynne Prize)入選
2013   澳洲Paddington Art Prize入選
2012   紐約See Me邁阿密藝術大獎入選
2012   澳洲Wilson視覺藝術大獎-最佳推薦獎
2012   澳洲國家視覺藝術協會藝術家補助
2011   澳洲Blake藝術大獎入選
2010   澳洲西澳費歐納史丹利國立醫院公共藝術作品入選
2010   澳洲西澳哥薩克藝術大獎-最佳推薦獎
2009   澳洲西澳約達拉普市藝術邀請大獎-最佳評審團獎
2009   澳洲西澳年輕藝術家藝術態度大獎                                         
2008   澳洲國家視覺藝術協會大獎
2007   澳洲學生藝術年度設計競賽

駐館經歷
2009   澳洲西澳光譜攝影空間駐館藝術家

典藏
中國天津環亞國際馬球會大酒店收藏
澳洲新南威爾士州梅特蘭美術館收藏
澳洲ANZ 銀行收藏
澳洲西澳皇家伯斯醫院收藏
澳洲西澳愛迪柯文大學藝術收藏
澳洲西澳皇冠國際大飯店收藏
菲律賓馬尼拉皇冠國際大飯店收藏
私人收藏遍及澳洲、台灣、美國、香港、印尼、英國
經紀代理

雪梨: Spot81
台北:YESART AIR GALLERY





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1979 Taipei, Taiwan.
Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Visual Arts & Photomedia), Edith Cowan University, WA.

Solo Exhibitions
2015                Seek, YesArt Air Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014                Somnium, Spot81, Sydney, Australia
2013                Origins, YesArt Air Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2013                Within Silence, Syndicate at Danks, Sydney, Australia
2012                Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang, Shell House, Melbourne, Australia
2012                New works, Gaffer, Hong Kong
2011                Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang, Sogoart Show, Sogoart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2011                Embracing the Slow, Gaffer, Hong Kong
2010                Illume, Perth Galleries, North Fremantle, WA, Australia
2005                Empathy, Little Creatures Brewery, Fremantle, WA, Australia

Group Exhibitions
2017                "Formosa Art Show" ,Songshan Cultural and Creative Park,Taipei,Taiwan
2016                "Art Central"Hong Kong
2015                2015 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2015                Just Paper, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Australia
2015                Book of Rites II, Shijie Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2015                Formosa Art Show, Humble House Taipei, Taiwan
2015                Young Art Taipei, Sheraton Taipei, Taiwan
2015                Art Taichung, Millennium Vee, Taichung, Taiwan
2014                2014 Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2014                Art Kaohsiung, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2014                2013 Blake Prize Directors’ Cut Exhibition, Blake Society, Sydney, Australia
2014                Yes Artist Group Exhibition, YesArt Air Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014                Asian Contemporary Art Show, Conrad, Hong Kong
2014                Young Art Taipei, Regent Taipei, Taiwan
2014                Out of the Blue, Spot81, Sydney, Australia
2014                Calleen Art Award Finalists Exhibition, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2014                Muswellbrook Photographic Award Finalists Exhibition, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, NSW, Australia
2014                Aboriginal Benefits Foundation Charity Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2014                Contemporary Abstraction, Shijie Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2013                Exposure 2013, See | Exhibition Space, New York, USA
2013                2013 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2013                Paddington Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013                Emptiness, Shijie Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan
2013                Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
2013                The Hills Are Alive, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013                Toyota Emerging Artist Exhibition, finalist, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2013                Stop. See., YesArt Air Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2012                1001 Artists Project, SCOPE Miami 2012, Miami, USA
2012                Flanagan Art Prize, finalist, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
2012                Wilson Visual Art Award, finalist, Trinity Catholic College, Lismore, NSW, Australia
2012                The Paradise Club, Paradise Hills Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2012                6 Melbourne Artists, Gaffer, Hong Kong
2012                Lasallian Foundation Fine Art Auction, Menzies Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2011                16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show, LA Convention Centre, Los Angeles, USA
2011                MiFA 2011 Year End Mixed Artists Exhibition, MiFA, Melbourne, Australia
2011                Artemperor Show, Taipei, Taiwan
2011                2011 Blake Prize Directors’ Cut Exhibition, Blake Society, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2011                Gluttony & the Gourmand, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011                2011 Rob McNamara Exhibition, Collingwood Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011                Click 11 Photography Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011                Swan Street Shuffle, Shuffle Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2011                Casella Art Prize, finalist, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
2010                Cossack Art Award, Cossack, WA, Australia
2010                Artitude Exhibition, Burswood Entertainment Complex, Burswood, WA, Australia
2010                Young Artists with Artitude, finalist, InterContinental Perth Burswood, WA, Australia
2010                Fair Trade Exhibition, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2010               Vasse Art Award, Vasse, WA, Australia
2010               Ongoing exhibition of photographic works at Wild Fig, Trigg, WA, Australia
2009                City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award, finalist, Joondalup, WA, Australia
2009                Discordant Natures, Spectrum Project Space, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2009                Cossack Art Award, Cossack, WA, Australia
2009                Artitude Exhibition, Burswood Entertainment Complex, Burswood, WA, Australia
2009                Young Artists with Artitude, finalist, InterContinental Perth Burswood, WA, Australia
2009                Fair Trade Exhibition, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2008                Waving Not Drowning, Perth Centre for Photography, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2008                8.08, Spectrum Project Space, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2008                Bangladesh 2008, Spectrum Project Space, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2008                Fair Trade Exhibition, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2008                Ongoing exhibition of works at Beilby, East Perth, WA, Australia
2007                The Blue Exhibition, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2007                AinA at the Old Berlin, Old Berlin, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2007                Fair Trade Exhibition, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2006                Simply Their Best, Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
2006                The Red Exhibition, Kurb Gallery, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2006                Artists in Arms Inaugural Exhibition, Allpike Motors Showroom, Mount Lawley, WA, Australia
2006                Gomboc Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA, Australia
2005-6             Ongoing exhibition of works at Etro Bistro, Perth, WA, Australia
2005                Northbridge Windows Exhibition, ArtRage Festival, Northbridge, WA, Australia
2005                Give, The Projection Lounge, Northbridge, WA, Australia
 
 
Bibliography/Publications
2014                Belle Magazine, November 2014 (Australi)
2014                South Sydney Herald, 15th July 2014 (Australia)
2014                Sixtoeight.net, 18th September 2014 (Australia)
2013                Art Collection + Design, ‘Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang’s Origins: Leaving Reason, Gaining Insight’ by Zheng Fang-He, July 2013 (Taiwan)
2013                Merit Times, ‘Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang: the Ethereal & the Zen’, 18th July 2013 (Taiwan)
2013                ArtCo, ‘Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang: Origins’, July 2013 (Taiwan)
2013                Liberty Times, ‘A Taste of Contemporary Art’, 28th July 2013 (Taiwan)
2013                Taipei Times, 2nd August 2013 (Taiwan)
2013                Asian Art News, ‘Abstract Origin’, Volume 23 Number 4 July/August 2013 (Hong Kong)
2013                The Australian, 1st March 2013 (Australia)
2013                ArtsHub, ‘Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang’, 21st February 2013 (Australia)
2012                Morning Brew with Phil Whelan, RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong), 17th May 2012 (Hong Kong)
2012                Coco Eco Magazine, ‘Fighting Back’ by N. Zed, Sept/Oct 2012 (USA)
2012                Asian Art News, ‘New Works’, Volume 22 Number 3 May/June 2012 (Hong Kong)
2012                Pipeline, May 2012 (Hong Kong / China / Taiwan)
2012                Hong Kong Gallery Guide, January 2012 (Hong Kong)
2011                Asian Art News, ‘States of Mind’, Volume 21 Number 6 November/December 2011 (Hong Kong)
2011                Hong Kong Gallery Guide, December 2011 (Hong Kong)
2011                Hong Kong Magazine, December 2011 (Hong Kong)
2011                MutualArt.com, November 2011 (USA)
2011                The Pocket Arts Guide, November 2011 (Singapore)
2011                Pipeline, November 2011 (Hong Kong / China / Taiwan)
2011                Progress Leader, 9th October 2011 (Australia)
2011                ArtsHub, ‘Gluttony & the Gourmand’, September 2011 (Australia)
2011               City of South Perth Peninsula- September 2011 Spring Edition (Australia)
2011                Sogoart Art & Investment, No. 10 April 2011 (Taiwan)
2011                Art Movement LA – Los Angeles Art Fair, ICN TV Network, January 2011 (USA)
2010                The West Australian, ‘Something for everyone’ by R. Spencer, 15th October 2010 (Australia)
2010                Asian Art News, ‘Illuminating Abstract’, Volume 20 Number 5 September/October 2010 (Hong Kong)
2010                The Wire Mag, 16th September 2010 (Australia)
2010                Insite magazine, Spring edition 2010 (Australia)
2009               Art Monthly Australia, Dr. N. Schwarz, September 2009 (Australia)
2009                ArtsHub, 19th October 2009 (Australia)
2009               The West Australian - 'Prayer on a g-string' by R. Spencer, 18th September 2009 (Australia)
2009               The Wire Mag - 'Uneasy bodies of work' by J. Bahr, 10th September 2009 (Australia)
2009               The Guardian - 8th September 2009 (Australia)
2009               ABC TV - Sunday Arts - September 2009 (Australia)
2009                Out in Perth – September 2009 (Australia)
2009               news.com.au - 16th September 2009 (Australia)
2009               The West Australian Seven Days - 25th July 2009 (Australia)
2009               The West Australian - 18th July 2009, pg 8 (Australia)
2009               Southern Gazette - 7th July 2009, pg 14 (Australia)
2008               Bellwether, G. Pryor (ed.) (Australia)
2008               Southern Gazette - 24th June 2008 (Australia)
2008               Xpress Magazine, issue 1113 - 12th June 2008 (Australia)
2008               Out in Perth, issue 81 - June 2008 (Australia)
2008               Xpress Magazine, issue 1111 - 29th May 2008 (Australia)
2008               Sunday Times STM – 4th May 2008 (Australia)
2008               AMR Mail – 27th April, 2008 (Australia)
2006               Artwall – November 2006 (Australia)

Awards/Grants
2015                Sulman Prize (Art Gallery of NSW) – Finalist
2014                Sulman Prize (Art Gallery of NSW) – Finalist
2014                Calleen Art Award - Finalist
2014                Muswellbrook Photographic Award – Finalist
2013               Shortlisted for 2013 Blake Prize (Australia)
2013                Wynne Prize (Art Gallery of NSW) – Finalist
2013                Paddington Art Prize – Finalist
2012                Art Takes Miami (See Me, NYC) – Top 100 Finalist
2012                Wilson Visual Art Award – Highly Commended Award
2012                NAVA Australian Artists’ Grant
2011               Shortlisted for 2011 Blake Prize (Australia)
2010               Cossack Art Award (Australia) - Highly Commendation Award
2009               City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award (Australia) - Judges Commendation Award
2009               Young Artists with Artitude Award (Australia)
2008               National Association of Visual Arts Ignition Prize (Australia)
2007               Student Art 2007 Annual Design Competition (Australia)

Residencies
2011                Artist in Residence, Fu Shui District Community Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
2009                Artist in Residence, Spectrum Project Space, Northbridge, Australia

Commissions
2014                Crown Casino, Manila, Philippines
2011                Burswood Intercontinental, Perth, Australia
2010                Short listed for Fiona Stanley Hospital public art project, Perth, Australia
2005-2014       Private commissions in Australia, Hong Kong and Taiwan

Collections
Tianjin Goldin Metropolitan Hotel, China
Maitland Regional Art Gallery Collection, Australia
Royal Perth Hospital Collection, Australia
ANZ Bank Collection, Australia
Edith Cowan University Art Collection, Australia
Crown Casino, Australia
Crown Casino, Philippines
Private collections throughout Australia, Taiwan, USA, Hong Kong, Indonesia, UK

Representation
Spot81, Sydney
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王筱雯 Annie Hsiao– Wen Wang
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由除魅到復魅−王筱雯的歸根   
                                  文 /   鄭芳和( 資深藝評家)  2013.8

她是一位1979年生於台灣台北,1990年11歲即隨同父母移居澳洲的女子王筱雯。她的繪畫沒有批判,沒有故事,
沒有現實的景物,只呈現一種視野,來自寂靜之心的靈視之野,它既是抽象的存在,又是心靈具象心景的浮現。
那片朦朧,遼闊的境域,穿越日常的繽紛,直指心靈的冥思之地。

她的作品召喚一種靈性之美,在抒情的抽象中,蘊含柔性的張力,那張力來自畫面的氛圍中逸顯而出的「光」
 。在恍惚的光暈中,使畫面的空間更深沉的邃入。

她的色彩暈染宛如宇宙初始的混沌,一切仍在生發中,在混沌中流動,衍生不斷演化的形,一種非西方的幾何
學所能形容或概括的形,那是非形之形,泯除清晰界限的形,是漸層式的色彩混融合一,既是空無一物,也含攝萬物。

畫面的結構是開放的抽象空間,無邊無界,恍如廣闊天地的無始無盡,一切都被揉成一氣/一體,而畫面所透顯而
出的光暈不是西方的科學透視,是東方繪畫的有機透視,徐徐散發一種既柔又雅的神秘詩意。

奇特的是這位在澳洲獲得物理與機械雙學位的女子,嚴謹的理工訓練,竟促發她投入藝術的探求,又取得ECU大學
視覺藝術學位,並繼續研修藝術治療,獲得諮詢師執照。或許是科學精確的、邏輯的、數理的理念,無法滿足她的
內在需要, 當她一接觸到抽象大師康丁斯基的繪畫, 那句「創作是滿足內在的需要」 ,剎時間她的生命變色,潛
藏於內在的藝術種子,忽然含苞迸放。

 她的油畫貌似隨機,卻又不隨機,那是經過無數層表面的塗刷,猶如一次次地爬梳內心的秩序,沉澱創作的激情化
為如呼吸般的節奏。透著光的畫面,流露出她的思維與情感,既細膩又大氣,畫面既混沌又有序。

長期浸淫西方的科學訓練,王筱雯的繪畫有意打破她所學的牢不可破的物理,那是幾百年來科學所認定的「宇宙萬物
具有嚴格的精確性與可決定性。」(註1)她藉由繪畫由西方的機械論科學觀,重新返回東方的冥想,一種不必是心物
二元對立的有機觀,一種無法藉由科學精準測量的東方思維。她已逐漸擺脫在澳洲二十餘年所受西方教育的邏輯與理性
雕琢而逐漸返回東方的形象思維與直觀當下的心性哲學。

她的繪畫魅力就在於將科學中否認自然事物的神秘性的機械運轉,逐漸恢復生命力,由科學的除魅到生命的復魅,召喚
人內在神秘的非理性因子。她試圖穿越西方理性的科學制約 「回歸人性完整而不可分裂的真實存在」。(註2)她創作
生命的終極關懷,正是召喚出那種有機的,靈動的,充滿生命靈光又盈滿東方靈韻美學的生命觀照。

以她近年不斷獲得澳洲大獎, 如2009年澳洲西澳紐達拉普市藝術邀請大獎−最佳評審獎,2010年西澳哥薩克藝術大獎−
最佳推薦獎,2012年澳洲Wilson視覺藝術大獎−最佳推薦獎,作品並在美國、香港、中國、澳洲展出並獲收藏。一連串
的得獎與佳評,既是對一位年輕具有潛力的藝術創作者的肯定,更重要的是掌聲落歇之後 相信她仍將一本初衷擁抱創作
的寂靜之聲。

也玩裝置藝術及攝影的王筱雯,在拍攝過無數的眾生相後,有著宗教體驗的她,捨去人間世的種種美好與不堪的形形色
色,以空濛一片,交融虛實的色彩氛圍與空間,讓人觀之如進入自由的形上冥想世界,脫落身心的重擔,釋放內在的能
量。她正以繪畫,偷渡她諮商師的角色,以空靈的畫面,淨化觀者的心,抖落浮世的塵埃,回歸心靈無染的純真面目。

 在王筱雯虛實相生,色彩與光影接續對話的油畫或水墨中,作品如一面靈魂的鏡像,在在折射出生命的光點。她正以創
作重燃觀者的內在之火 那是一處屬於人與宇宙自然靈犀感通的生命光源,她是一個年輕而老的靈魂,以創作之火為人間
放光。

她的年輕並不妨礙她尋譯東方哲思,回歸母體文化的根源,作為創作的源頭活水。老子云:「歸根曰靜,靜曰復命。」
回歸本源,自然寧靜,寧靜就能恢復本性,在王筱雯一系列「歸根」的復魅過程中,她由「靜」出發,她正以藝術一步
步走上創作的修行之道,相信假以時日她必能去蕪存菁,讓生命與藝術更臻於化境。

註1:黃永和《後現代課程理論之研究:一種有機典範的課程觀》,頁59,師大書苑,2001
註2:石朝穎《人類是一件偉大的藝術品−美學的形上關懷》,頁234,水瓶世紀文化,1998



她的繪畫沒有批判,沒有故事,沒有現實的景物,只呈現一
種視野,來自寂靜之心的靈性之野.....~鄭芳和/資深藝評家
(藝術收藏+設計ARTCOLLECTION+DESI
GN NO.70 七月份 P.58-59)
YESART 當期展覽『Origins源-Annie Hsaio-Wen Wang 王筱雯 台灣首次個展 』




Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang‘s Origins: Away and Within
 
Annie is a profound and deeply introspective artist who produces work free from narrative, realism, and critical analysis. Annie gives us a vision. A vision, hazy and immense, pulled from deep within herself. Her work is abstract and ephemeral, and yet, it conveys a feeling both familiar and eternal.
 
Annie's unique aesthetic is created through an easy tension between a soft smokey atmosphere and the presence of a light that, while obscured, is emerging from the within the work. The result is a mood of both great mystery and depth. Furthermore, as the light emerges, it produces a natural gradation of colour that is rich in movement and life. Shapes appear which are beyond the descriptive capabilities of Western geometry. These shapes merge with one another before disappearing from the mind's eye. It produces within the viewer an experience of the form without form, the nothing that contains everything.
 
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1978, Annie and her parents emigrated to Australia when she was 11 years old. She completed a double major in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Western Australia. After working off and on as an engineer for six years, she grew weary and dissatisfied with the logical and precise thinking found within scientific disciplines and returned to the artistic pursuits she had abandoned upon entering university. She received her Bachelors in Contemporary Art from Edith Cowan University as well as studying art therapy, obtaining her counsellor's license.
 
It was the work and words of Kandinsky that truly acted as a catalyst for Annie's transformation into an artist. Kandinsky famously said, "The true work of art is born from the artist: a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation…animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being." After Annie found Kandinsky, it was as though a seed, planted in her mind long ago, had begun to bloom.
 
Annie's artistic development continued after a religious experience wherein she lost interest in form and shape and began instead to focus on colour and space. Her paintings may initially appear random, but they are anything but. They are created through a lengthy process of layering paint and glazing that mirrors Annie's long voyage of inner exploration. At the end of these journeys, Annie has peeled back the initial layers of passionate creativity to show the heart that beats at the centre of inspiration. What she reveals is a vision of light and space, exquisite and vast, chaotic and yet in perfect order.
 
Annie's personal philosophy is rooted in the ideas which underly Eastern meditation practice, a central tenet of which is the belief in the intuitive experience of the immeasurable. This type of philosophy is in direct opposition to the West's more mechanical modes of thought that Annie has spent so long studying. Indeed, within her work you find an artist that is freeing herself from the binds of materialistic thought in order to embrace a philosophy based on intuition and mindfulness. It is here where we find the  work's great appeal to the contemporary viewer; it produces a sense of vitality and divine mystery that our daily lives sorely need. Her paintings act as gateways through which we can leave the constraints of materialism and rational thought and return to the true self, from which we can never be split. Indeed, she produces within the viewer a metaphysical state, free of life's burdens, and distinctly rejuvenating. This palliative effect of Annie's work is perhaps a result of her training as an art therapist and her continued interest in alleviating people's suffering.   
 
In recent years, Annie's work has begun to receive its due. In 2009, she won the City of Joondalup Invitation Art Judges Award and the Cossack Art Award. In 2010, she won the High Commendation Award and the Wilson Visual Art Award. In 2012, she once again won the High Commendation Award. Her works have been exhibited and collected in the United States, Hongkong, China, Taiwan and Australia. These awards and exhibitions reflect the great promise evident in Annie's work. More importantly though, after all the awards and applause, Annie continues to seek out and embrace the sound of the silence within.
 
Though young in age, Annie is an old soul, capable of understanding the subtle contradictions within Eastern philosophy. As Lao-Tzu said, "Each separate being in the universe, returns to the common source, returning to the source is serenity." Annie's work is inextricably interwoven with this profound precept. It seeks a way back to the source with a serenity that appreciates the metaphysical without defining it, embraces the infinite with neither pretension nor expectation. Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang‘s current exhibition, Origins, is one beautiful step on her path towards her representing, and ultimately understanding, the eternal essence within us all.
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