Departure: Louis Lim and Christine Ko

Your Facilitators: Louis Lim and Christine Ko

Louis Lim and Christine Ko are Brisbane-based Asian-Australian visual artists working across photography, installation, public art and community projects.

Louis’s practice explores the diversity in human conditions, specifically those that are under-represented in mainstream media. With a keen interest in light, Louis’s focus is on non-fictional visual storytelling and conceptual photographic portraits using a collaborative methodology.

Christine’s practice explores marginality, hybridity and spaces characterised by the ‘in-between’. Drawing from her own Chinese-Australian migrant experience, Christine uses an autoethnographic methodology to examine feelings of ambivalence—between hopes, dreams, invisibility and shame.

Collectively, Louis and Christine have exhibited locally and internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions, notably at QUT Art Museum, Gold Coast City Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Logan Art Gallery, Artisan, Onespace and Botanica (Brisbane City Botanic Gardens). They have been finalists in the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Toowoomba Biennial Emerging Artists Award, Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award, Macquarie Group Emerging Artist Prize, MAMA Art Foundation National Photography Prize, Clayton Utz Art Award and Moreton Bay Region Art Awards. Their works are held in the collections of Gold Coast City Gallery, Macquarie Group, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery and the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital.