What
the media headlines say !
Art
Monthly Australia - June 1998
Hou Leong's 'Blue Poles' and 'Mountain and Water' series, which
parody Chinese calligraphy and Western expectations, is evoked in
rhythmical gestures of extraordinary grace.
Bangkok
Post - 4 February 1998
East merges with West: Australian artist Hou Leong's look at cultural
identity is an amusing pleasure to behold.
The
Canberra Times - 2 April 1997
Shanghai-born Hou Leong is being celebrated in London for his iconoclastic
approach to stereotypes, says Michele Field.
VOGUE
Australia - March 1995
Hou Leong's images are the result of investigation and manipulation
- with a strong measure of wit.
Hong
Kong Standard - 5 March 1995
Asia may have a tradition of saving face but former Macau resident
Hou Leong is taking it literally. Helen Johnston talks to the artist
whose camera always lies.
Asian
Business Review - February 1995
Hou Leong is not just An Australian, as the title of his recent
Sydney exhibition would have it. He is, in his art work at least,
the archetypal Australian, writes Lind Jaivin.
The
Sydney Morning Herald - 28 January
1995
Attacking the Australian stereotypes: Hou has scanned his own face
into a series of colour photographs that seem to sum up Australia's
self-image, says John McDonald.
The
Canberra Time - 5 March 1992
In a show that can best be described as an exposition of technigues
and the promise of more thins to come, Leong has gathered together
etcings and prints that set him aside as an artist with talent...
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