WINNER – DRAWING STUDIO Peter Westwood Legendary T’shirt Award, 2025
No Love Labours
An exploration of familial tension and the burden of care through the use of drawing and writing.
This project reflects the period of coming-of-age that results in the detachment from family, and expresses the weighted suppression of silence and betrayal. The letters and drawings are a rumination on what it means to endure. Labour is a symptom of love as the action of writing and erasure becomes a continual, relentless process of psychological endurance. I respond to the dysfunction of chaos by seeking linguistic repetition, and comfort within the psychological impermanence of marking and erasing charcoal materials. What remains, is what is left unsaid – it is a letter of love, hope, sacrifice and gratitude.
Kim Nguyen is a multidisciplinary artist working in Naarm/Melbourne.
