Woodcut paintings
Chinese ink, acrylic, colour pencils and carving on wood
2023-ongoing
These woodcut drawings and paintings portray the artist’s imagined future worlds. Made with meticulous carving and layers of rendering, these sculptural paintings on wood feature magical landscapes, dotted with fantastical animals with intricate texture and patterns. These imagined worlds offer a glimpse of how our future would look had we continued a path of unfettered consumption.
In 2018, Fung embarked on a crazy woodcut project “Polluta Propaganda Woodcuts” that encompasses 99 woodblocks and taught herself how to carve wood. Five years later, having carved over 100 woodblocks, she realised she was obsessed with carving. Combining carving with drawing and painting—the origin of her artistic journey, she has developed a signature style woodcut painting.
"By using woodblock printing Michelle Fung has become a master of her art [...] That sharp intelligence like the tools she uses in making her woodblocks means her art is much more than an intellectual exercise. It comes from both head and heart.
Full of soul and beautifully crafted with the addition of a jazz like sense of improvisation, her work is absolutely unique.
"Norman deBrackinghe, Photographer
"I am now coming to view your woodcuts not as JUST images to be looked at, but as
works that must also be read/deciphered, consistent and appropriate with your ascribing
them as being "compositions". Looking forward to viewing/reading more of the Polluta Propaganda, as conveyed via your growing Polluta Animal Woodcut Collection."
James Yopp, Microbiologist