Bergman Gallery is delighted to announce representation of Luise Fong
 

Luise Fong is an important New Zealand post-modern artist, with a painting career spanning four decades. Fong graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1991. Her work is held in numerous private and major public collections throughout New Zealand and Australia, including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Chartwell Trust, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery, University of Auckland, Fletcher Trust, University of Canterbury, Barr Collection, and the Dame Jenny Gibbs Collection.

Works by Luise Fong have featured in several significant international exhibitions, including Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany in 1995 and Trans/Fusion: Hong Kong Artists' Exchange, Hong Kong Arts Centre and Auckland Art Gallery in 1996. Fong has held a number of residency positions including artist-in-residence, Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1994 and artist-in-residence, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in 1995. Fong was the visiting artist at the University of Canterbury in 1999. Fong was also resident artist for the McCahon House Artists' Residency in 2008. 

The artist’s paintings of the mid-1990s were highly evocative in the New Zealand art scene. Fong’s body of work became intensely interactive, producing paintings where she confronted the surfaces of her work, scratching, smearing, splashing and drilling holes to allude to traces of nature and ghostly reflections of the body. In 1994, Fong was the joint winner (with Bill Hammond) of the Visa Gold Art Awards. 

Two new works by Luise Fong are included in the group show Horizon, now on show at Bergman Gallery, Auckland.

“My starting points are generally intuitive responses to the world, to my state of mind, and to cultural aspects around me. I'm interested in basic, simple processes and finding poetry in simple things.”

Luise Fong, Shadow Nocturne, acrylic and gold leaf on board, 610x460mm, 2023