By Hop Dac
2024
oil on canvas
63.5x94.5cm framed
ON HOLD pending Art Prize submission
ARTIST STATEMENT
"This work continues to draw inspiration from my life and upbringing as part of the Vietnamese diaspora in Australia, exploring themes significant to culture, language and identity to see how they are handled, transformed or exchanged. I carry on working from the position of the one-and-a-half generation – I don’t really have a choice in this – and the floor-sleeping pictures in particular look at the themes of adjusting to shifting cultures and the changing of gender roles."
BIO
Hop Dac is a Vietnamese-Australian painter and writer. He studied Fine Art at Curtin University in Perth and moved to Melbourne in 2002 where he eventually studied Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. He has work published in Overland, Peril Magazine, the Saturday Paper, Kill Your Darlings and various anthologies. Hop works and lives on Wadawurrung country with his partner and their two daughters.