The English title of the exhibition ‘Minding the G(r)a(s)p’ is a triple entendre—gap, gasp, grasp. It is a way to draw attention to the space between seeing and knowing in the exhibition viewing experience. The gasp is the surprise when the audience discovers new narratives or ideas when they are able to look beyond preconceived notions related to the seven mid-career artists/artist collectives on view in the exhibition. The exhibition’s curator Celia Ho proposes to the audience to approach each work individually, in order to grasp the significance and context behind each one of them.
Featuring two local artists, Carol Lee Mei-kuen and Trevor Yeung, the exhibition shows their unique travelogue of gleanings. Working in different media, Lee and Yeung both take inspiration from a wide variety of exotic plant gathered during their travels and re-express them in personalised artistic forms. Involving botanic observations and discoveries of natural origins, the transformation process creates new artistic idioms and opens up a universal panorama.
Elaine Wong was awarded a scholarship from the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 2013 to attend a short course on culture, graphic design and fine arts in New York. She received her Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) in painting from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University in 2014. Currently, she is pursuing Master of Fine Arts at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong. Elaine is the founder of Altermodernists, an independent art group in Hong Kong that is devoted to the documentation of artists’ creative processes. Her works are characterised by the transformation of observed social and related human behavioural phenomena, often enhanced with audience participation. They can be regarded as a presentation of the response to her experience in the society through moving images, installations and media projects.
Organised by the Hong Kong Heritage Museum. 'Claylaboration - Contemporary Ceramic
Art Exhibition" is distinguished for its exploration of the possibilities of cross-disciplinary collaborations in ceramic art. Ceramics is an art form with its own distinctive characteristics and traditions. This exhibition invites various generations of Hong Kong ceramic artists re-examine customs and innovations of ceramic art through collaborating with creative talents from a variety of fields. It could be a challenging task to the ceramic artists, many of whom are accustomed to solitary pursuits. It also imposes challenges to their creative partners.
Social Transformations – An Exhibition Celebrating 20 Years of Partnership between RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School
The exhibition proudly celebrates the 20 years of partnership between RMIT University and the Hong Kong Art School (HKAS), with a focus on the social transformations it brings.
Not everyone is a collector but one often ends up amassing keepsakes to which we attach our emotions.
Devoid of systematic sorting or meticulous classifying approaches, such secular and random acts of keeping are worth revisiting and redefining, especially against today’s investment-driven collecting culture…
Learning is an essential path that we have to travel. We take the first step at school, where we start our personal growth and build friendships. After a school has completed its mission of nurturing generations of children and its campus has retired from the contemporary scene, we, as grownups, still hold onto every single precious memory of our schooldays…
Inspired by the "one book, one space", the gallery of Oi! will become a carrier of five tailor-made books, all sharing the main theme of "family", while exploring the concepts of root, bloodline, and mobility from different perspectives.
In celebration of the graduation of the 10th cohort of the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) program, co-presented by the RMIT University, Australia and the Hong Kong Art School (a division of Hong Kong Arts Centre), 43 ceramics alumni from the past ten years are proud to present their most recent work in a ceramics exhibition and to put on a series of events under the theme “Dual Plasticity” – to mold and be molded.
