Art Literacy and Appreciation Workshop｜Art is Printmaking

Embrace the surprises that printmaking brings you with patience and creativity. Monotype is a unique medium that creates print through adding and removing paint on a plastic sheet, which serves as a favourable channel to learn printmaking. This workshop will introduce the techniques of monotype and demonstrate the different possibilities of printmaking. Participants will get to create two prints.

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About Kinchoi Lam

Kinchoi Lam's artistic creation covers prints and illustration. He graduated from City University of Hong Kong's School of Creative Media in 2012, and received his Master's degree in children book illustration from Anglia Ruskin University. He is currently running print workshops at M+ museum. He is winner of the Batsford Prize 2021 (UK) and Bologna 2020 Illustrators Exhibition, among other international prizes.  

Artist Talk | Colour Interpretation Between Sculpture and its Materiality 

Artist Dave Chow will have a conversation with Zoie Yung, an independent curator, on his current artistic practice. The discussion would start with Chow’s works in the recent two group shows: "Proper Weight" and "Hope all is well with you" focusing on materiality and spatial relationship. The set of works consists of a window motif and the extended space it suggested. Apart from that, Chow would also share his experience with previous collaborative works.

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About Speaker 

Dave CHOW Yui-wang 

Dave CHOW Yui-wang was born in Hong Kong in 1993. He graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in 2015. He is especially interested in the materiality and the physicality of things. His works display and distill his everyday experience through appropriating, transforming, and assembling ready-made objects.  

Chow currently lives and works in Hong Kong. During his residency in Chicago in 2018, He had his first solo exhibition Switch on the Television When the Sun Sets. His works shown in local exhibitions include Proper Weight (Fo Tan, 2022), Hope all is well with you (1a Space, 2021), 10 Years of ASP (soundpocket, Fu Lee Loy Shopping Centre, 2021), EQUILIBRIUM (ACO Art Space, 2018), Observe / Scrutinise / Perceive (Gallery Exit, 2018), and again and again (Common Room & co, 2018), etc. 

About Moderator 

ZOIE YUNG  

Zoie Yung, currently based in Hong Kong, is an independent exhibition consultant and curator, and former exhibition manager of chi K11 art museum in Shanghai. She provides a unique approach to exhibition production by combining practice in exhibition spatial arrangement and her knowledge of Chinese Xuanxue as well as western astrology. Selected recent exhibitions include Wonder-verse (chi K11 art space Hong Kong, 2022) and Curve of Buoyancy (Duddell’s, Hong Kong, 2021). She also actively organizes public education campaigns, she had collaborated with local organizations including Tai Kwun Contemporary, Para Site, 1a Space, and Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre.

Art Literacy and Appreciation Workshop｜Art is Graffiti

You must once glimpse graffiti art in your community, usually in narrow alleys but sometimes in main streets too. From advertisements to lyrics, quotes to images, each graffiti has its own charisma, telling stories of one another. In this workshop, participants would be introduced to varies graffiti tools and techniques, then, to create own graffiti work. An opportunity to be part of the city’s narration with vivid colours.

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About Pantone C

PANTONE C has engaged in urban art for over 20 years since 2000.

In 2007, he learned advanced urban art drawing skills & spraying techniques in Australia. In 2012, he received his Diploma of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

PANTONE C focuses on teaching and promoting urban art. He has also been invited by many corporate brands for different art projects. He is the first artist who introduces Moss Art in Hong Kong.

Art Literacy and Appreciation Workshop｜Art is Line

What is art? Art is composing thoughts and feelings into ink lines.

Chinese calligraphy is often called "Lines with meanings". Artist Fung Yee Lick Eric will introduce the composition of calligraphy, and its many possibilities and room for creativity. To feel the relationship between lines and space. To capture visual elements surrounding us. To create modern calligraphy works with traditional base and a personal touch.

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About FUNG Yee Lick Eric

FUNG Yee Lick Eric (MA Fine Arts CUHK & MA Museum Studies University of Leicester) is a Hong Kong-based contemporary ink and mixed media artist. He teaches in the diploma and normal courses of Chinese calligraphy in HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education.

Art Literacy and Appreciation Workshop｜Art is a Creepy Fun

Let's experience the fun of sculpting through simple handicraft. Avert your eyes from electronic devices, discover yourself and the creepy little fun around you, and fill your life with delights. 

Artist will teach you how to create a mini finger-like wooden box with whittling knives. Enjoy carving your own fingers, big or small.

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About Cathleen Lau

Lau is a Hong Kong-based artist who is devoted to developing her artworks with new concepts in sculpting space. She engages in producing sculpture complemented by large scale cross-media installations. She graduated from the Hong Kong Art School (RMIT), majoring in sculpture. Her works explore the possibility of breaking through the inertia of sculpting materials. She is interested in constantly inventing “sustainable and renewable” substances. She is now molding and carving wood with inverted material that is in the form of sawdust, re-sculpting space with particular attention to materials and atmosphere. She is good at creating mixed-media sculptures and installations with different media carvings, in the melting pot of new materials, light and shadow, to present conceivable atmospheres that integrate the audience.

Lau received Reaching Out Scholarship to visit Japan and experience its culture. Her work is awarded Directors Choice Award 2018 Human Rights Art Prize, and also exhibited in Affordable Art Fair Young Talent 2018. In 2016, she was awarded with Selected Artwork Prize in Taipei Art Free Fair, and The Best Art Work (Sculpture) in 2015. Her works have been exhibited in Switzerland, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

Art Literacy and Appreciation Workshop｜Art is Moving

Introducing everyone into the world of animation through creating flipbook animation together. Participants can explore and learn the fundamental knowledge of making animation, including basic animating skills to designing sequence and space. Creativity flows in our very own handmade flipbook.

This activity is suitable for participants aged 13 or above.

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AboutFlorence Lee

Florence Yuk Ki Lee is an independent animation artist. She completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Graphic Design, Moving Image Specialism at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2016 and went on to obtain an MFA from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong in 2021. Florence currently lives and works in Hong Kong.

Her works of art explore the extraordinary in the ordinary, expressing her emotional, aesthetic and poetic responses to places that she has formed a sense of connectivity with, often from a perspective which is anchored to her cultural identity. She works in 2D digital animation, using a hand-drawn frame-by-frame process to create subtle abstract narratives using dynamic brushstrokes and colours.

Her works have been shown at festivals and institutions around the world, including official selections for Annecy International Animation Film Festival (France, 2022), World Festival of Animated Film-Animafest Zagreb (Croatia, 2022), MONSTRA (Portugal, 2022), Flatpack (United Kingdom, 2022), Sydney Film Festival 2022 and SUPERNOVA (United States, 2021). She was an award winner of the Los Angeles Animation Festival in 2021. In the same year, she was awarded a Special Jury Award at Tatsuno International Film Festival (Japan), and also nominated for the Kuandu Animation Award at Kuandu International Animation Festival (Taiwan). The work is included in “Mon- OEil” screening programme by the Centre Pompidou.

In 2022, she directed Park Voyage (2022), a newly commissioned short film for M+ Museum. It will be shown as a set of pre-show commissions at screenings and selected events at M+ in the coming two years.

Artist Talk | Art x Tech: A world in the mind of machine

From "The Moon Is Leaving Us" to "And the rest is stardust", interdisciplinary artist Phoebe Hui will share her insights into the marriage of art and technology, with her series of works on astronomy. She will also engage in an open dialogue with Popo-Post Art Group on the blood, sweat and tears of art world (red alert).

Exhibited at Tai Kwun Centre for Art and Heritage, "The Moon Is Leaving Us" comprises two major bodies of work: Selena, a custom-built drawbot that produces intricate Moon drawings; and Selenite, a kinetic robot that projects varying Moon imagery on screens. Meanwhile, "And the rest is stardust" is an installation that reimagines Qing astronomy of 28 constellations, which is now on show at Hong Kong Palace Museum.

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About Speaker

Phoebe Hui

Phoebe Hui is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher primarily working in the relationship between language, sound and technology. Her recent projects increasingly rely on interdisciplinary ideas drawn from the machine learning, philosophy of science, system aesthetics and the concept of indeterminacy. Hui received her MFA at UCLA Design Media Art, Los Angeles, her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, and her BA in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong.

Hui is the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including the 5th Audemars Piguet Art Commission selected artist, HKETO Yale-China Art Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Young Artist Award and Artist of the Year (Media Arts), Asian Cultural Council Altius Fellowship, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award, Asian Cultural Council United States-Japan Arts Program Research Fellowship, Hong Kong Art Development Council Art Scholarship, Hong Kong Design Association Design Student Scholarship, among others. She has presented her research-based art practice and papers globally at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, the MIT Media Lab, Asian Contemporary Art Week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

About Guest

Popo-Post Art Group

Formed in 2018, the Popo-Post Art Group take WhatsApp as their HQ, denying the physical comfort of and desire for a studio. In response to Hong Kong’s always burgeoning financial sector, they use idle and underrated spaces. They mix high-quality cultural cement and use it to fill up the slivers and gaps in this city.

Art Literacy and Appreciation Workshop｜Art is Turning the Page 

We wish that participants can learn more about zines and the development of local zines. Through creating your very own zine, we want participants to think about the relationship between the city/society and us during the creative process. 

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About Tiffany Tam

Tiffany Tam (tt) (b. Hong Kong) graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU. Her works focus on zines, paper art, illustrations, and interchangeable images on the theme of city and life. Her works have been displayed and collected by museums, Asia Art Archive etc.