Hop Dac
ARTIST STATEMENT
"The past has played an essential part in much of my work.
I use nostalgia and vintage objects as timestamps to when the Vietnamese diaspora first started moving across the world and began settling in new countries."
BIO
Hop Dac is a Vietnamese Australian painter and writer who came to Western Australia as a refugee in 1980. His family settled in Geraldton on the Western Australian coast and he studied Fine Art at Curtin University in Perth.
Hop moved to Melbourne in 2002 where he eventually studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. For a time writing and editing was his focus and he has work published in Overland, The Saturday Paper, Peril Magazine and Kill Your Darlings (KYD). He worked in editorial roles for KYD between 2013 and 2016.
Hop resumed oil painting in 2021 after a ten-year hiatus. He works and lives on Wadawurrung country (Geelong/Djilang, Australia) with his partner and their two daughters.
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