No Love Labours

Charcoal and pen on paper, 30m x 1m, 2026

Artwork Statement

The 30 metre paper-based scroll is an installation that transcribes the burderned silence within the familial relationships of an immigrant household. The work embodies tumultuous emotions that are harbored within memories of a childhood home, and the psychological weight of supressed silence. The installation depicts the home as a cerebral, often volatile state expressed through a diasporic lens of immigrant trauma and displacement.

Artist Bio

Born and based in Naarm/Melbourne Australia, emerging artist Kim Nguyen’s drawing practice evolves into a multidisciplinary approach of installation and performance. Completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2025, her graduate installation No Love Labours has received a Peter Westwood award alongside being featured in a multitude of local shows. Her practice seeks to articulate psychological and intimate human relationships into the spatial, as an architect and observer towards the material and intangible.