Lefty Pinkoes

17 Jun 2014

Khue Nguyen

Artist, Arts, Gay, Society & Culture

Khue Nguyen is an artist who arrived in Australia as a Vietnamese political refugee in 1987. Kath and newest Lefty Pinkoes crew member Lauren find out that Khue arrived in Australia with nothing but his abilities in fine arts as a child with watercolors on silk, as a student at arts college in Saigon and with two art teacher parents.

Khue tells us how he built his career as a graphic artist until 2008, when the global financial crisis flung him into  returning to his first love, Art. Khue was the first Vietnamese artist to become a finalist in the 2010 Archibald Prize with his haunting self-portrait Unleashed.

Khue talks of how he felt he had to be closeted in Vietnam and found ‘his true self’ in Australia. Khue’s latesat project has seen him working on a human rights project between Australia and Vietnam, called Voicing the Unspoken.

In Sino-Vietnamese, “Khuê” means “star”.

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