Hong Qiong Hua 洪瓊華

A graduate from the National Taiwan University of Arts, Hong Qiong Hua started her artist career as an oil painter and studied and worked on traditional Chinese colour sculpting from 1979. She infuses creativity into traditional sculpting technique, employs new materials, skills and designs to interpret the old culture and create new values to her works.

Hong emphasises on scale, posture, action, texture and colour. Her modern concept injects new life to the traditional art. In recent years, she mixes western sculpture techniques with traditional Chinese sculpting to create neorealist series of “Song of Dunhuang”, “Story of Kinship” and “Impression of Cheongsam”.

Highly appreciated in Taiwan and overseas, Hong was awarded the best skill prize in the Japanese National Portrait Creation Exhibition in 1996, prize for the sculpture category in Taiwan’s Traditional Arts Award in 1998 and 2000, respectively, and her work is collected and displayed permanently by the National Art Centre. She was awarded prize for the sculpture category in the 1st and 2nd National Arts Award in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Her works have been exhibited in Taiwan, France and the US.

洪瓊華畢業於國立台灣藝術大學,早期從事油畫創作。在1979年在一個偶然的機會下,接觸到中國傳統彩塑藝術,開始嘗試立體彩塑的研究與創作。

洪瓊華的每件作品都非常注重比例、造型、動態、肌理、色彩及神韻的掌握,以現代人的眼光和學院派新的繪畫觀念,賦予中國傳統彩塑藝術新的生命。近年來,更以西洋雕塑的手法和中國傳統彩塑的精神融匯貫通,創造出一系列「敦煌之歌」、「親情故事」以及「旗袍印象」等新寫實主義作品。

洪瓊華的創作才華深受中外藝術界認同,1996年獲日本全國人形創作展最佳技術賞,1998年及2000年獲頒台灣國家傳統工藝雕塑類獎,作品被台灣國立傳統藝術中心永久典藏;2001年及2002年分別獲頒第一屆及第二屆國家工藝獎雕塑類獎。洪瓊華除了在台灣舉辦展覽外,作品亦層分別在法國及美國展覽,備受嘉許。