Trang Khieu

Photo by Tom Morley

Taohau (Trang Khieu) is originally from Vietnam. She has been living in Lincolnshire, UK for the last 4 years with her son and her husband. She grew up in a village in Northern Vietnam, surrounded by fields and lychee’s farms. When she was 19, she moved to Ho Chi Minh City and worked as a fashion model for nearly a decade. And with a love for art, film and the other arts she started to paint in her spare time, as a hobby rather than as a profession. She is interested in abstract paintings, with one of her favourite artists being Wassily Kandinsky: the way he used color and shapes in his painting still inspires her now.
Having lived in Lincolnshire for roughly 4 years, she now sees parallels to where she grew up in rural Vietnam over 6000 miles away with pockets of urbanness surrounded by peaceful countryside. Being chosen to present one of her works in Lincoln is an overwhelming feeling for her. She expressed that she couldn’t believe that her work is “good enough” to be chosen.

UKNA Projects:

UKNA Weekend Celebration of Creativity: Lincoln 2023 - ‘Artists in the Now’ Exhibition in collaboration with The MashUP