Jacquie Meng works with painting, sculpture and sound to create surreal, charged works that use symbolic objects to explore the fragmented nature of diasporic identity. In her paintings, mirrors become portals, pool balls transform into eyes and everyday items carry cultural memory, with each playful yet deliberate placement contributing to a deeper mapping of self, place and transformation. Meng’s achievements include the Guy Warren Emerging Art Prize (2024), Highly Commended in the Blacktown City Art Prize (2025), and finalist status in Gosford Art Gallery’s EMERGING 2025, alongside the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship (2021), finalist recognition in the Churchie Emerging Art Prize at the IMA and participation in PICA’s Hatched 2022.
During her residency at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Jacquie expanded her painting practice into more sculptural and installation-based realms. She created a body of work that explores ideas of place and landscape in relation to the body and non-physical presences that gesture toward being. The architecture and environment of the studio and its surroundings informed this new body of work.
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