Connie Wong

Encounter

12 - 23 November 2025

Opening night

14 November | 6 - 8pm

G2

Artist Statement

Painting for me, is a wonderful escape into my own world. My work captures inner states-passion, hope, memories, vulnerability and transformation through spontaneous body movement, the use of vibrant colour and luminous light. It functions as an arena where energy is released, and emotion materialised. Colour in my practice functions as emotional language with brushstrokes and resembles a form of spontaneous choreography, an “emotional dance” upon the surface. I see artmaking as a neverending curious journey with its process guiding me to experiment with new ideas and concepts, from both eastern and western art history.

Artist Bio

Connie is an Australian contemporary artist whose ork explores the emotional and sensory power of paint, developed over thirty-eight years since migrating from Hong Kong to Melbourne. She has exhibited since 2020. She has earned the Master of Contemporary Art degree at the Victoria College of Art, University of Melbourne and received the Endeavour Australia Award.

Connie’s practice emerges abstract with expressive gestures and the colours she chooses reflecting sensory emotional signals. They all come together as the artwork. Inspired and influenced by artists Tony Smibert AM, Judith White and Jackson Pollock, her aim is for her brush strokes to become an emotional dance that resonates on the surface of the canvas to engage her viewer’s senses with unpredictable moods and feelings that create a limitless sense of the sublime that open to self-reflection.

Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au

Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map

How to get here
Tram: Route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens

Melway Ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets

Bus: 504 (Reid Street)