EDUCATION
1996 - 2000, Wimbledon School of Art,
BA(Hons) Fine Art Painting
1987 - 1988, Harrow College of Higher Education,
Foundation Studies
STATEMENT
So-Ha Au has used diagrams in her work over many years, starting from palm prints, floor-plans, genealogy trees, to dressmaking patterns; to explore issues of personal histories, sites of 'memories', and 'mapping' identity.
The use of diagrams as motifs and symbols evokes 'home', domesticity, 'making', the body, location, absence/presence.
Currently she is exploring imagined/ 'unreal' 'maps', by deconstructing and transforming prints of dressmaking patterns and layers of objects, to create ambiguous 'maps' or 'spatial landscapes' evoking aerial maps as a way of locating and placing.
Creating a sense of trying to orientate, but also the awareness of not being able – instead to displace, reinforcing feelings of disappointment, unfulfilled searching. Presenting the absence of knowledge, what is lost and unrecoverable.
Places that cannot be visited, time that cannot be placed, but also the possibility of new geographies.