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Issue October 2022

In Between Planes

So Wing-tung

"I love how windows reveal another realm. It is simultaneously someone’s own personal comfort space and at the other end of the spectrum, a public space. The windows are equally reflective of the landscape around it: how a frame can hold this remarkable imitation of the world. It is as if a surface can carry so much depth and imagination to it. The motif of the architectural window as rhetoric, and conversely, a tangible manifestation, is fascinating. I am captivated by and curious about how surfaces found in frames could be transformative: how a two-dimensional surface could suggest qualities of a three-dimensional space." So Wing-tung（L7-14 Artist Studio: Wing Tung So） is a contemporary artist whose playful articulations are often marked by the visual obscurity of vernacular and iconic façades. Working with painting and video, it is a translation of planes of multidimensionality: when surface moulds into space, painting reacts with video, when one medium consumes the other. Scenes of our contemporary city in flux take centre stage in Wing's practice, from an active engagement with landscapes that defy singular planes to ambiguous expanses conjured by mirrored reflections and transparencies in glass architecture. From optical plausibility to perspectival impossibility, she mediates the fluid relations between material and virtual spaces.

Issue September 2022

Barren Land

Chu Chun-kei, Maggie

In 1840, British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston used the phrase "A barren rock with nary a house upon it" to describe Hong Kong Island as a godforsaken place.The journey began in the mid-19th century when Hong Kong was at a crossroad in its fate, with postcards featuring the iconic scenery of the Victoria Harbour. With all human traces removed to recreate the Barren Rocks from the 1840s to date, the postcards were cut up into pieces and became like hundreds of little magical creatures.

Issue August 2022

On Balance, In Order

Cheung Tsz-man, Kuby

Society, arts and life are manifested in different layers. Perhaps like stacking Jenga blocks, a solid foundation is required for reaching greater heights, and arts is often an accumulation of life experiences. A shining example would be emerging artist Kuby Cheung who is accomplished in ceramics and passionate about street dance. Versatile in her interests, Cheung keeps her poise and seeks balance in life and arts, constructing her own “order” layer by layer.

Issue July 2022

Sensitivity to Sensibility

Tam Kai-fung

Are you susceptible to changes in the environment, light, sound, temperature and emotions? If so, you might be a “highly sensitive person”. Being highly sensitive to his surroundings, multimedia artist Tam Kai-fung (L7-06) is endowed with keen observation and ingenuity. His treatment on skin allergy has inspired him to create installations in reaction to his body, turning allergen into creative stimulus, and scrutinising himself from a third-person perspective. Through art creation, Tam contemplates his relationship with the environment and society, and adjusts to the vicissitudes of life.

Issue June 2022

What We Watch

Leung Lok-hei, Giraffe

“Together, this ensemble of electronic techniques called into being a new world—a peek-a-boo world, where now this event, now that, pops into view for a moment, then vanishes again.” In his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman described the era of new media with prophetic vision, where everything in society become forms of entertainment. We spend an excessive amount of time every day on our phones, TVs and the internet, where information flashes by mostly meaninglessly. This led to artist Giraffe Leung (L4-06) questioning what he watched, and capturing what he saw from the media with his works. Look, entertainment is all that remains in our world.

Issue May 2022

Beguiling Garbs

JC Jessie

Anyone attending a Cantonese opera performance would have no doubt been dazzled by the beautiful costumes. Interdisciplinary art practitioner JC Jessie (L8-09) straddles traditional culture from a bygone age and leading edge digital world to research, document, reinterpret and present Cantonese opera costumes via new and diverse art forms.

Issue April 2022

Go with the Flow

Yung Chee-mun, Simon

Looking up to Tang dynasty poet Du Fu and taking his timeless verses as motto, ink artist Simon Yung (L5-21) integrates Chinese poetry into his paintings, which offer a sense of serenity amidst the hustle...

Issue March 2022

FABRICation

Lit Wing-hung

Fabrics are materials that rarely enter any discussion on sculpture. However, the making of clothes is essentially a form of sculpting the body. Seeing potential in fabrics, artist Lit Wing-hung (L4-15) makes use of different kinds of them to create “still life” sculptures...

Issue February 2022

Flâneur

Lam Ka-yee, Miki

Flâneur is a French word referring to a person who saunters around observing the city. It perfectly describes artist Lam Ka-yee, Miki (L5-10B) who often sketches the passing scenery during commutes, as a way to observe Hong Kong...

Issue January 2022

Take Lightly, Look Closely

Chan An-gee

As the ingenious saying goes: “Do small things with great love”. Conversely, how about taking great things lightly in life? Printmaker Chan An-gee (L5-24) depicts memorable experiences and observations from everyday life with wit and vivacity. Anecdotes, fantasies, feelings ...

Issue December 2021

A Picture a World

Lam Kin-choi

Picture books are not just for children, they are often the connection between kids and adults, and our portal to the world. Keeping childlike curiosity towards the world, picture-book creator and artist Lam Kin-choi (L2-12) uses printmaking and picture books to illustrate stories about our city...

Issue November 2021

Emobodying the Body

Yeung Siu-fong

When you are drawing, standing or running, are you fully aware of the connections between your muscle groups and movements? Read on for an account of performance artist Yeung Siu-fong (L5-15), as she shares her exploration of the relationship between body and soul...

Issue October 2021

Sawdust Works Wonders

Lau Ching-yee, Cathleen

Wood is an indispensable material with wide range of uses, from building houses to making furniture and sculpture. But how about the leftover sawdust from woodworking? Artist Cathleen Lau (L8-13)...

Issue September 2021

A Whimsical World of Black and White

But Wing-ki

When you read or dream, do you dream in colour or black and white? Let us explore the monochromatic world of But Wing-ki (L6-11) inside her “Blind Spot”...

Issue August 2021

FLOURISHING CITY, EVOLVING INK

Hon Ngan-ting, Rebecca

Where have all the flowers gone? Rapid urban development brings drastic changes in cityscape. Hovering around Chinese ink painting and digital media, creating concrete and abstract paintings of buildings and flowers, ink artist Rebecca Hon (L4-13) makes an urban “mirage”...

Issue July 2021

Fading Impressions

Chan Yi-ting

Photographs fade, so do memories. Perhaps, impressions and images captured by printmaking may last longer? Printmaker Chan Yi-ting (L2-16) encapsulates traces of the mass disruption on the streets through photography, and subsequently prints the images layer over layer in soft, pastel tones...

Issue June 2021

Passing on the Art of Mahjong Craft

Cheung Sing-chung, Ricky & Cheung Hoi-yan, Karen

Issue May 2021

Antic and Animated

Zhang Junjie, Jake

Issue April 2021

Destroy to Create, Create to Inspire

Chan King-hei, Calvin & Kun Tsz-yan, Joyce

Whether it be the world of fashion or society in general, innovative ideas are often conceived by challenging old notions. Founded by Calvin Chan and Joyce Kun in 2014, local fashion brand The World Is Your Oyster (L7-05) takes “the devil is in the details” to another...

Issue March 2021

Endearing Embroidery

Hung Sheung-yee, Shirley

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,” said Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s little prince, “what is essential is invisible to the eye.” In a departure from traditional embroidery...

Issue February 2021

Printmaking in the Making

Chang Yue-lam, Henry

Printing might be considered a sunset industry, but would the intrinsic value of printmaking be gone with it? Son of a printmaker, artist Chang Yue-lam, Henry...

Issue January 2021

Bespoke Books

Hsu Wai-lun & So Lai-ping, Somely

Issue December 2020

Live in the Details

Chang Hoi-wood, Howard & Yeung Wai-keung, Gary

Being a curator is a very satisfying experience. We are like the conductor of an orchestra...

Issue November 2020

Vivid Forms, Vibrant Colours

Chau Chung-man & Lee Yuen-suet

Befriended through a shared passion for painting, artist Chau Chung-man and Lee Yuen-suet both likened...

Issue October 2020

Transforming Trash into Treasure

Lam Yau-sum

I did not cherish nature then when it was abundant around me, but I long for rural life now that I live in a concrete jungle...

Issue September 2020

Emotional Landscape meets Chinese Ink

Qian Yinxiao, Silver

Whereas for me, nature is my outlet...

Issue August 2020

For Sale,
or Not for Sale

Leung Hiu-yin, Terence

Everything has a price tag...

Issue July 2020

A Man
of
Character

Kong Hoi-kan, Thomas

To me, Chinese seal is my storytelling platform and diary...

Issue June 2020

Bringing Paper to Life

Chu Cheuk Wai, Margaret

Thinking out of the (paper) box, cross-disciplinary artist Chu Cheuk-wai, Margaret (L4-05) transforms her drawings on paper into poignant, perky and playful paper sculptures.

Issue May 2020

Fleeting Images of a Floating City

Kwok Ho-man, Linus

“Above are ethereal clouds, below are troubled waters, the floating city does not rise, nor sink.” Marvels of a Floating City, the famous work by novelist Xi Xi, depicts the state of Hong Kong before the Handover...

Issue April 2020

Rage Against The Tranquil Night

Cheung Tsz-ki, Jacky

Darkness falls like a curtain at night, draped over the cityscape, and so we called it nightfall. Fascinated by the nightscape, emerging artist Cheung Tsz-ki, Jacky (L6-30), a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, captures the imageries of night with his works...

Issue March 2020

Slow Craft, Fine Art.

Li Tak-yung, Doris

In an era that focuses on efficiency and speedy outcomes, “being slow and patient” seems out of tune. But emerging ceramicist Li Tak-yung, Doris (L2-11) finds her happy place through stitching...

Issue February 2020

Extraordinarily Ordinary

Tse Chun-sing

Snoring, chimes of the ice-cream van, flashes of camera and shimmering leaves. Do any of these things tickle your fancy? A graduate from the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), an awardee of the WMA for Young Talent award and a shortlisted nominee for the ifva Awards in the category of Media Art, emerging multidisciplinary artist Tse Chun-sing (L8-12) observes the unnoticed side of everyday objects and happenings...

Issue January 2020

Heterotopia in Art

Sze Mei-ting, Muses

Heterotopia is “the other space” – an existence that is both real and unreal, between physical space and utopia (virtual space). Besides cinema, museum and zoo, where else can we find heterotopia in reality?

Issue December 2019

Sketching lives / Sketching from Life

Hau Siu-ching

He is napping, she is scrolling on her phone – an MTR ride is a kaleidoscope of lives. For several decades, artist Hau Siu-ching (L7-16) has stuck with sketching as his true and trusted medium to capture people’s life stories.

Issue November 2019

Sinking Ink

Lau King-nam

Fluidity and cohesion are the two elements that draw Lau to ink art. Wielding his brush, he brings light, deft touches to weighty matters. In black and white, he transforms from an observer to a social advocate.

Issue October 2019

Sense and Sensibility

Li Ka-fai, Ziggy

What do you associate when you come across adjectives such as fluffy, round and lovable? Most of us may think of girly knick-knacks or cartoons. But what if a man is drawn to fluffy stuff, and creates round and endearing characters? There is nothing “unmanly” about it, of course, and the male gender is fully entitled to “being cute”, too.

Issue September 2019

Tying Knots / Knot Together

Chan Nung, Rachel

“Break the khipu code and we might finally read an indigenous Inca history.” Gary Urton, anthropologist at Harvard University, once remarked. According to scholars, khipu (or talking knots) are recording devices fashioned from strings found in the region of Andean South America. Apart from the Incas, knotted strings were historically used by many other cultures such as the ancient Chinese and native Hawaiians for collecting data. Even now, knots continue to be intricately entwined with our lives – we use phrases like “tying the knot” to express the symbolic bond of a couple.

Issue August 2019

Freedom-Hi

Tse Man-yan, Jasmine

The recent social movement in Hong Kong brought about much noise, sparking an outburst of creativity such as the coining of the slang, “Freedom-Hi”. What does freedom mean to you? “Freedom is a luxury,” said Jasmine Tse (L7-03), the well-liked illustrator who works under the pseudonym, Tse Sai Pei (a Canto-slang that means exhaustion).

Issue July 2019

Along The Line

Yau Ngai-lam

The co-founder of Apple Computer Inc, Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Connecting the dots of her past, artist Yau Ngai-lam treads on a line into the future.

Issue May 2019

A life in ceramics

Lo Sai-keung, Louis

Ceramic art to Lo is like a camera to a photographer, capturing moments that are beautiful and breathtaking. Filling his “boxes” with sentiments and affection, ceramics, is the lifelong better half of the artist.

Issue April 2019

The heART reader

Au Ho-lam, Suzanne

Understanding a person is akin to appreciating a work of art. The way people perceive and read an artwork opens a fascinating window into their attitude towards the people and things around them.

Issue February 2019

The Science of Art
–
The Art of Science

Fung Wing-lam

Art and science, are they two polar extremes or rather two sides of the same leaf? Albert Einstein, famous physicist and music enthusiast, had once remarked, “All religions, arts and sciences, are branches of the same tree.”

Issue January 2019

Venturing Into the Unknown – Homecoming to the Familiar

Ban Zhang

Moving to Taiwan may not be something of novelty these days, but it was fairly uncommon for a Hong Konger to give up everything in pursuit of an artistic career in Taiwan 18 years ago. Perhaps it was the promise of an adventure and great challenge that attracted artist Ban Zhang, a brave soul who makes a place for himself in Taiwan shortly after Hong Kong’s handover. There, Ban had visited various arts villages in the hope of finding his own identity, space and a kind of artistic ambience.

Issue November 2018

Seeing the
Bigger Picture

Tse Chi-tak, Ducky

There is a saying that there are three levels of seeing: seeing the superficial, seeing through the superficial, and seeing beyond. After having worked as a photojournalist and professional photographer for many years in the industry, Tse Chi-tak (a.k.a. Ducky) decided to transform all that he has seen into photos and artworks – all the good old days he has seen, landscapes he has seen through, as well as mindsets and identity crises he has transcended from. Through his lens, he tells stories of the people of Hong Kong, preserving our collective memories. Despite grasping a full view, Tse chooses to stick to his purest and most original intentions: to record and archive happenings as they naturally proceed.

Issue September 2018

New Perspectives

Hui Fong-wah, Phoebe

There are many ways to explore the world: Scientists conduct experiments; historians study literature; archaeologists discover relics. As for artists, they can express their artwork in a variety of ways. One of these artists is Hui Fong-wah, Phoebe, a multimedia artist and JCCAC tenant, who combines text, sound and technology in her multimedia installations to re-interpret the essence and everyday roles of ordinary objects.

Issue February 2018

The smiths

Chan Po-fung

Now times have changed, and so have the norms. Many say that commercial orientation and cost-efficiency-driven production model are two dominant forces restraining the growth of creativity in Hong Kong. Faced with such constraints, Chan Po-fung, resident artist and designer of studio Playback Concept (L6-16) at JCCAC, has demonstrated...

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