Pamela See

Pamela See was born in Brisbane, Queensland. In 1999 she completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at Griffith University. Since then she has participated in major solo and group exhibitions in Australia, China and the United States. See has received several important public commissions and her work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia; Artbank; University of Queensland; Queensland University of Technology; Griffith University; Swires Properties Ltd; Brisbane Airport Corporation; Queensland Transport; International Buddhist Light Association of Queensland; Queensland Artworkers Alliance and the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens, Queensland.

Pamela See is an Australian artist born of Chinese descent, practicing in Brisbane and Beijing. She works with a contemporary form of paper cutting and decorative sculpture in plastic, perspex and stainless steel. Thematically, her artworks enjoy a duality of readings in China and Australia. In China, her artwork is largely read for its commentary on cultural and commercial colonialism - or essentially as part of Beijing's pop/kitsch school. In Australia, migration is the primary context applied to her artwork. By and large, the same artworks have received contrasting interpretations across the two countries. Symbols such as the Bee, for prosperity in Chinese culture, feature prominently in her artwork.