Jacqueline Yeung (born 1985) is a UK-educated, Hong Kong-based abstract expressionism artist. Jacqueline is one of the estimated 4% of the population with some form of synesthesia, a neurological condition in which perceptual information leads to the simultaneous stimulation of several senses. Drawing inspiration from her synesthetic visions, Jacqueline's creative process embraces both music and visible forms. Combined with her professional background in interior and spatial design of over 10 years, Jacqueline delivers a compelling interplay of sound and space in her artworks with a heightened consideration of immersive aural and spatial experience. Jacqueline's digital art has been exhibited at ARTAVERSE and Climate Change Hong Kong Summit 2022.
While synesthesia comes from the neurological processes of the brain, it would be unfair to call it a disorder. Instead, it is simply a different way of perceiving the world. For example, one type of synesthesia Jacqueline experiences is Chromesthesia. When music enters her ears, it produces colourful visions in her mind. From quotidian sounds to arranged music, auditory stimuli can yield impressions like shapes or colours. The heightened sense of iridescent form contributes significantly to her artistry. Jacqueline also experiences spatial-sequence synesthesia (or "SSS"), a subtype that connects a physical space to a sequence. Essentially, Jacqueline visualises sequential elements at different points in space.
Valuing art as a therapeutic medium, Jacqueline has been overtly working on transforming her synesthetic visions into art embodied with motions and music. Integrating art and technology, her digital art projects are crafted to offer the audience an aural-visual experience with an active engagement of the senses to facilitate well-being. As engagement with art expands spatially and temporally, Jacqueline hopes to raise awareness of mental health and synesthetic abilities and to construct a deeper connection with
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