February 13, 2023

Natalie, Chu Lok Ting 朱樂庭 (HK)

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Natalie Chu Lok Ting (b. 1999, Hong Kong) is a 2022 graduate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Major in Fine Arts. Through Chu’s ultra fine brushstrokes and recurring usage of ink painting, ink rubbing, and sculpture, her works mostly researched on humanistic history, commemorations, and monumentality, and further coordinate with texts and art history research on individual topics. Chu’s work has been exhibited at in various institutions and galleries and attained various awards including Friends of the Art Museum Prize and Ramon Woon Creative Prize.

朱樂庭1999年出生於香港，於2022年畢業於香港中文大學藝術系。透過她的極細筆觸及重複創作的新水墨、拓印和雕塑等，朱氏的作品研究與人文歷史、紀念性、與「碑」的意象有關，並配合文本和藝術史研究創作。她的作品曾在多個藝文機構和畫廊展出，及獲得「文物館友會獎」和「翁凌宇藝術創作獎」。

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February 13, 2023

Max Cheng 鄭志堅 (HK)

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Max Cheng is a Visual Art graduate of the Hong Kong Baptist University. He creates art with the sense of smell, mostly using installation and mixed media as the medium. Cheng emphasizes on the value of object itself and uncovers creativities in daily life. He established okapi studio after graduation and collaborates with charities and different organisations to produce scent products, hold incense-making workshops, and organise local farm docent tours and exhibitions; through various activities, Max aims to promote the many faces of “incense culture” and the idea of “closing the loop” by making incense from natural ingredients and utilising incense ash as fertiliser.

Max is currently collaborating with HART on designing and executing HUMBLE HART, HART’s community and art program that extends interactions and communications to selected neighbourhoods, encourages participants from different backgrounds to engage in arts in new ways and increase social impact and enhance social inclusion.

鄭志堅畢業於香港浸會大學視覺藝術系。他以香味進行創作，主要運用裝置和混合媒介。鄭氏強調物件自身價值，在生活中發掘創意。畢業後他創立了okapi studio，與不同慈善機構和組織合作創作香味產品、舉行製香工作坊、展覽以及本地農地導賞。透過不同活動，鄭氏希望藉此宣揚香味文化的不同面向和持續發展。

鄭氏現與 HART 團隊一起策劃及執行 HART 的社區藝術項目 — HUMBLE HART。此項目透過互動和交流空間延伸至不同社區，鼓勵不同人士以嶄新的手法接觸和重新認識藝術，促進社會效益及共融。

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February 13, 2023

Nicholas Wong 黃裕邦 (HK)

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Nicholas Wong is the author of Crevasse (Kaya Press, 2015), the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and Besiege Me (Noemi Press, 2021). He is also the recipient of the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize. His has contributed writings to projects by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Manchester International Festival. He currently translates poetry by contemporary Taiwanese poet Sun Tzu-Ping.

Nicholas has a background in English poetry writing, but the dimension of the page starts to bore him. He attempts to explore ways to creatively "translate" his own works into visual mediums. His visual outputs to be made during his time at HART Haus may be text-based, text-integrated, or text-induced, with an emphasis on the dynamics between imagery and texture, tonality and medium.

黃裕邦，本地詩人，詩集包括《Besiege Me》（英文，2021），《天裂》（中文，2018）及贏得美國 Lambda Literary Awards 的《Crevasse》（英文，2015〉。

雖然從英文詩詞寫作出身，但頁面的維度逐漸令他感到乏味。他因而嘗試尋找其他表達自我的方式——把詩作「翻譯」為視覺元素。他在 HART Haus 所作的視覺輸出中，有是基於文本的，有些是與文本相融，也有些是文本所催生的。不論是哪種輸出，他都強調著圖像紋理、色調和媒介之間的互動。

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February 13, 2023

Yasmina Viale-Fraine (FR)

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Yasmina Viale-Fraine, a French fashion designer, started dressmaking at a very young age in her mother’s atelier.

In 2011, she landed in Hong Kong and turned the devotion to her hobby into atelierYVF, an evening wear and bridal couture studio.

Yasmina’s bespoke creations reflect the stories and personalities of her brides-to-be. They are designed with a slow fashion, zero-waste circular approach. Yasmina mixes French and Asian inspirations and uses a wide range of techniques such as silk painting, plant dying, French haute couture embroidery and beading, to create for bold brides, looking for minimalist designs that showcase their personality.

法國時裝設計師 Yasmina Viale-Fraine 從小已於母親的工作室裡接觸製衣。 2011年，她來到香港，並將對工作的熱愛轉變成 atelierYVF，一間晚禮服和新娘時裝工作室。

Atelier YVF 的訂製作品敍述了準新娘的故事和個性；採取「慢時尚」和「零浪費」的設計方針。她的作品融合法國和亞洲靈感，應用絹畫、植物染色、法國高級時裝刺繡和珠飾等多種技法，為大膽的新娘創作，尋求能彰顯她們個性的簡約設計。

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February 13, 2023

Merryn Trevethan (AU)

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Merryn Trevethan is an Australian artist currently based in Hong Kong, relocating in February 2021 after 7 years in Singapore. Her abstracted, hyper- saturated artworks are inspired by the constantly changing structure of cities. Through her paintings, spatial wall-drawings and murals, objects, and large-scale installation works she considers the uncertainties of human perception; examining how we how we see, navigate, record and relate experiences of negotiating space in public, urban environments.

Merryn graduated with an Masters of Fine Arts from Monash University, Melbourne (2005). Recent mural commissions include Esc Café in Causeway Bay, HK (2023), 637 Flinders St workplace, Melbourne, AU (2024) and a site-specific mural for the Australian Theatre for Young People at Pier 2, Sydney Harbour (2022). Recent exhibitions include Postmodern Tales at H Queens, Hong Kong, Superhuman Expedition, at Arthub Studios, London, UK and a collaborative exhibition with Sebastian Mary Tay at Comma Space, Singapore (2023). She was one of ten artists (and co-curator) of Bus.Stop.Art public art project, commissioned by National Arts Council for Singapore Art Week 2021. In 2018, Merryn was a fellow of the Sam and Adele Golden Art Foundation Residency Program, New York (2018). She has held solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Singapore, USA and Hong Kong and China.

Merryn Trevethan 是一位澳洲藝術家，目前居住在香港，在新加坡工作7 年後於2021 年2 月移居。她的抽象、高飽和藝術作品的靈感來自於不斷變化的城市結構。透過她的繪畫、空間壁畫和壁畫她考慮了人類感知的不確定性；審視我們如何看待、導航、記錄和聯繫公共城市環境中的談判空間的經驗。

Merryn 畢業於墨爾本莫納什大學美術碩士學位（2005 年）。最近的壁畫委託包括香港銅鑼灣的 Esc Café（2023 年）、澳大利亞墨爾本弗林德斯街 637 號工作場所（2024 年）以及澳大利亞青年劇院於悉尼港 2 號碼頭的新址製作特定場地壁畫（2022 年）。最近的展覽包括香港 H Queens 的後現代小傳、英國倫敦 Arthub Studios 的 Super human Expedition 以及新加坡 Comma Space 與 Sebastian Mary Tay 的合作展覽（2023 年）。她是「Bus.Stop.Art」公共藝術項目中的十位藝術家（和聯合策展人）之一，該項目受國家藝術委員會委託，參加 2021 年新加坡藝術週。Merryn成為紐約Sam and Adele Golden Art Foundation駐留計畫的研究員（2018）。她曾在澳洲、新加坡、美國、香港和中國舉辦個展和群展。

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February 13, 2023

Gisèle Tchitchiama (FR)

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Gisèle Tchitchiama, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong, has been living in Hong Kong for the last 19 years. For many years now she has been dedicated to her artistic creations full time and recently by joining the HART studio.

Gisèle Tchitchiama's artistic practice is best-known for investigating the allure of freedom in her pictorial and abstract universe, and gives it form by examining the relationship between colour and brush stroke. Tchitchiama continually tries to clarify the transcendence of identity, an elegant fluidity in which a new sense of peace and gentleness is created.

A French artist, Tchitchiama concentrates on employing a powerfully evocative dreamscape, using distinctive strokes of paint that are like shadows of both force and lightness, creating a poetry between her profound use of colours, the material used and the act of creating.

Tchitchiama Invites us to take a moment to enter our personal cosmos of light and intimacy with oneself, inspiring those who engage with her work, to rediscover the beauty of humanity within oneself. Acrylic, watercolor and recently series of work have been focused on collages and installations informs Tchitchiama’s work in a way that dictates a universal language of our minds. Often created without any anecdotal or narrative aspect, Tchitchama’s work encompasses the essence of expression, purity and spirituality.

Gisèle Tchitchiama 是一位居住在香港的多學科藝術家，過去 19 年一直居住在香港。她一直全職致力於藝術創作，最近加入了 HART 工作室。

Gisèle Tchitchiama 的藝術實踐最著名的是在她的繪畫和抽象世界中探索自由的誘惑，並通過檢查顏色和筆觸之間的關係來賦予它形式。 Tchitchiama 不斷試圖闡明身分的超越性，一種優雅的流動性，在其中創造出一種新的和平與溫柔的感覺。

法國藝術家 Tchitchiama 專注於運用令人回味的夢境，使用獨特的繪畫筆觸，就像力量和輕盈的陰影，在她對色彩、材料和創作行為的深刻運用之間創造出一首詩。 Tchitchiama 邀請我們花點時間進入我們個人的光明和與自己親密的宇宙，激勵那些參與她工作的人，重新發現自己內在的人性之美。

壓克力、水彩畫和最近的一系列作品都集中在拼貼和裝置上，Tchitchiama 的作品以一種決定我們思維的通用語言的方式傳達了訊息。 Tchitchama 的作品通常在沒有任何軼事或敘事的情況下創作，涵蓋了表達、純粹和靈性的本質。

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February 13, 2023

Doris Ng 玳誼 (HK)

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Doris Ng is an artist focused on the dynamic realm of identity politics, using paintings and performative installations. Her large-scale paintings challenge conventional notions of identity through bold colours, intricate brushwork, and thematic exploration of class, desire, and cultural heritage. Ng's performative installations incorporate intimate materials like building blocks and bubblegum, creating a relatable connection with the audience, also prompting viewers to deeply contemplate their own experiences and perspectives. This approach fosters a heightened level of engagement with the intricate themes of identity, both on a personal and collective level.

Ng is based in HART studio, Hong Kong, with an MA from Central Saint Martins and a BFA from RMIT University. She has received awards such as the 1a Space Award, Boon Lee Award, and Dean's List Award. Ng actively participates in art and cultural community projects with organisations like the MTR Corporation, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Hong Kong Planner Institute. Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Hong Kong Arts Centre, K11 Chi Art Space, and 3812 Gallery and more.Her recent exhibited work include Very rude looking dessert (2022), Long live the Queen! (2022), Icons (2021), Reflex of Signages #1 (2021). She is also part of exhibited group performances Linlnlin (2021) and Be-sides (2020). Since 2020, she also works extensively in art and cultural community projects with The Lok Sin Tong Benevolent Society Hong Kong, Hong Kong Planner Institute, K11 MUSEA Nature Discovery Park, HART Hong Kong, Aroma office, HandsOn Hong Kong etc.

吳玳誼是一位使用繪畫和表演裝置，專注於身份政治動態領域的藝術家。她的大型畫作透過大膽的色彩、複雜的筆觸以及對階級、慾望和文化遺產的主題探索，挑戰了傳統的身份觀念。吳玳誼的表演裝置融合了積木和囗香糖等親密的材料，與觀眾建立聯繫，也促使觀眾深入思考自己的經驗和觀點。這種方法促進了個人和集體層面上對複雜的身份主題的更高程度的參與。

吳氏現駐於 HART 工作室，擁有中央聖馬丁學院碩士學位和皇家墨爾本理工大學學士學位。她曾獲 1a Space Award、Boon Lee Award、Dean's List Award等獎項。吳氏熱心參與港鐵公司、香港藝術中心、香港規劃師學會等機構的藝術文化社區計劃。她的作品曾在香港藝術中心、K11 Chi 藝術空間、3812畫廊等多個藝術空間展出。

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February 13, 2023

Vickie Li 李敬儀 (HK)

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Vickie Li’s works often portray the dualism at play between preserving innocence and the desire for power. Her forms metaphorically embed a feeling to convey a visual state of mind. She calls them “immersive paintings” as they are curated narratives in the process, born through her ability to retain her imagination and dream.

李敬儀的作品經常描繪保持純真和權力渴望之間的二元。她在形式裡隱喻地埋入了一種能傳達視覺精神狀態的感覺。她稱它們為“沉浸式繪畫”，是過程中精心策劃的敘事，亦是通過她保持想像力和夢想能力而誕生的。

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February 09, 2023

Liao Jiaming 廖家明 (CN)

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Starting from drawing figures but ending up creating conceptual arts, Law eventually dabbles from paintings to anything whimsical. With many mismatches, he is so versatile thanks to his curiosity about the world. He plans to settle down at HART Haus and slowly work on his “DIY aesthetic”.

初初只係想畫公仔點知就變咗做概念藝術，於是由繪畫到古靈精怪的都有汲足。是一個錯Q晒，對世界好奇所以百足咁多爪嘅人類。在 HART Haus 計劃靜下來，慢慢搞下佢想了很久的「土炮美學」。

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February 09, 2023

Chui Pui Chee 徐沛之 (HK)

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Born in 1980, Dr Pui Chee Chui apprenticed under Mr. Jat See-yeu and Professor Wang Dong-ling. After obtaining hisfirst degree at the Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chui furthered his postgraduate studies at the Department of Chinese Calligraphy, China Academy of Art, where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctoral Degrees in 2007 and 2010 respectively. Chui's artworks are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology of University of Oxford and are popular among private collectors.

徐沛之生於 1980 年師從翟仕堯老師及王冬齡教授，先後獲香港中文大學藝術系學士、中國美術學院書法系碩士及博士學位。曾任香港中文大學專業進修學院藝術及設計課程統籌、香港中文大學兼任講師、香港科技大學兼任講師，中國嘉德（香港）國際拍賣有限公司中國書畫部、香港中文大學專業進修學院課程榮譽顧問。現為甲子書學會執行委員（學術）、石齋之友執行委員、中國美術學院現代書法研究中心研究員。作品為香港藝術館、英國牛津大學阿什莫林藝術與考古博物館及私人收藏。

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