Artist profile
Florence
Wang
Florence is a visual artist based in Naarm, Melbourne. Her art practice focuses on the narrative aspects of visual medium and using subject matter for storytelling. Her art practice in traditional medium is influenced by her Chinese cultural heritage and experience as a child learning painting. Presently, she takes an interest in portraiture, still life, and landscape paintings that represent or is part of everyday experience. Besides art, she also has a career in information visualisation or in other words the science behind representing information in visual format.
Artist Quote
"I hope to use my work as visual metaphor to invite contemplation of relatable experience."
Artist Interview
How would you describe your creative process?
My work are elevated visual language coming from everyday experience. I try to practise as often as possible which eventually will resolve to more complete series of works.
What message and emotion do you hope to convey with your work?
I hope to use my work as visual metaphor to invite contemplation of relatable experience
Tell us a bit about your story and how you came to be an artist
I consider my art practice draws a balance between the creative and logical rationales. It is influenced my cultural background and experience of learning painting throughout childhood to teenage years, together with my formal studies in the science underpinning graphical representations.
