S A M M Y L A I

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www.sammylai.com

A R T W O R K S

 A R T I S T S T A T E M E N T

The truth lies in my unseen and creative world; it is an unended story that reverses back to nuclear leakage incidents that have harmed for at least 1,000 years. The fairy tales reside in a time zone that does not currently exist; every 'tick' of the hidden ticking sound of the clock is the leakage in my imagination of the absent imaginary universe. The relationship between imagination and reality becomes the intense subject of my work, packaged with a fascinating package of colourful thinking. Reinterpreted by the "speech" of sculptures, the interconnection between imaginati on and reality. You may view the making of sculptures as self-healing and therapy. I was scared of things, events, furniture, and things that were far bigger than me in my youth, and I still remember that. I came into adulthood, rediscovered, accepted and repaired my values and principles for existence at the start of a new chapter. Giant is not that scary. The door of my awful giant wardrobe becomes the hidden place from which my ideas came; it is a magical room that turns my childhood trauma into joyfulness. It is like introducing a new novel to the secret storybook that lives in my mind every time I add a series of whimsical sculptures. Life is endless; it is always appropriate to have improvised and socially relevant material. Colours, the recognition an d perception of scenes, fun, delusions, and collective memory were the themes of my artwork. Chelsea College of Arts has offered full support over the three years, considering the devastating and incurable consequences of the outbreak, but also the time of me 'outbreaking' my imaginative wardrobe. During the outbreak, I was active with public art. Art therapy would encourage me to satisfy my career with art sculptures in my journey of creation of social participation and a sense of humour. At the same time , the door of the magic wardrobe is living in the secret illusions in my reality room; it is the wardrobe lying on the line of visible and invisible. Whatever I think of the fictional world, the secret wardrobe in my mind would open up like a book that carries an explosive plot. Even the wardrobe never exists in reality.

E X H I B I T I O N

2021 Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art

2020 " Just for you " Group exhibition, Unit 13, Butterfly Walk Shopping Center, London

2020 "Time with myself" Online Gallery Residency

2019 Chinese New Year '' Pig'' Street Art Exhibition, Lee Tung Street, Hong Kong SAR

2019 ''Garden'', The Humble Gallery, London

2019 " Wonderland " End of year exhibition, Chelsea College of arts, London

2018 Window Display gallery in CSM, KingCross

2018 Selected Exhibition in CSM, KingCross

2018 Triangle Space Gallery, Chelsea

A W A R D S

2020, University Hardship Fund

2021, UGC Targeted Taught Postgraduate Programmes Fellowships