Level up - Exhibition opening - 普通⼈ (Ordinary People) by MeiMei 莓莓 Hodgkinson

LEVEL UP is series of contemporary community gallery spaces spread across Wyndham. These spaces have been developed to provide emerging artists with an opportunity to showcase their work and support their transition into professional practice.

Join the artist to celebrate the opening of this exhibition and to present these new artworks to the world. This is a catered event and RSVPs are appreciated.

普通⼈ (Ordinary People)’ explores and challenges the concept of ordinary through a series of
paintings and drawings of Wyndham residents.

Despite their age, gender, race and social statues, each sitter is a protagonist in MeiMei’s portraits.

With an intimate close-up lens, MeiMei exposes details that are often ignored or hidden from the first glimpse. Sun-soaked skin tone, delicate brushstrokes and dramatized expressions seek to illustrate the untold stories behind the eyes of people often seen as “typical”.

MeiMei 莓莓 Hodgkinson is an emerging Chinese Australian artist who currently lives and works on
Bunurong Country in Werribee, Victoria.

MeiMei has been playing with oil paints since she was three-years-old and retains that childlike sense of imagination and vulnerability in her artworks today. Inspired by extraordinary stories of the ordinary, MeiMei seeks to explore the 喜怒哀乐 (sourness, sweetness, bitterness and spiciness) of
life through people around her.

Image credit: Image by MeiMei Hodgkinson as part of exhibition