Eng Hwee Chu is Malaysian and born in 1967.  She studied at the Malaysian Institute of Art in Kuala Lumpur in the mid-1980s and has been exhibiting her work since 1987 throughout Asia - in Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore, as well as in London.  She has won numerous awards in her native Malaysia and in Japan.  Most recently she was a finalist in the prestigious Sovereign Art Foundation Competition of 2005.

Her canvases need to be studied carefully as each is full of minute detail and paintings within paintings.  Her themes are usually the depiction of women and of how they have suffered at the hands of men.  She says, “woman is seldom the mistress of her own destiny, having throughout history been abused, injured, reproached, and enslaved. Today, people of different religious, economic, political, and ecumenical persuasions all agree that something has to be done to alter the situation”.  In restating the problem, Eng Hwee Chu provides no answers but conceptualizes these ideas in a series of seemingly unrelated vignettes, registering her rage using symbols arranged around the central figure of her women in such works as ‘Black Moon 12’(1991), ‘Black Moon 13’(1992), ‘Black Moon 14’(1994), ‘Cry Freedom’(1994).

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