Beast by Alastair Kwan

Beast is a painting of a stone Chinese guardian lion, often seen in flanking entrances to important buildings such as palaces or places of worship. The image has been cropped and flattened into a 'texture', part of a 3D scanning process.

Product Information

Alastair Kwan
Beast
oil on canvas
25 x 20 cm
2023

About the Artist

Alastair Kwan (b. 1993, Leeds, UK) explores his experiences as part of the British Hong Kong diaspora, investigating its aesthetics, contradictions and digging into its colonial roots. As part of this excavation, he draws on the inherent confusions experienced by diaspora, showing how these can form their own visual language. His practice is socially-engaged, bringing a variety of disciplines together from sculpture and drawing to cooking and growing. He uses the process of making as a form of direct action within different systems, challenging their assumptions and creating ‘living’ environments that change and evolve.

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