HART Award

Kelly Kwok is a painter who graduated from the School of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2024. Her creative inspiration stems from keenly observing her surroundings and the people within them. Exploring the often-overlooked details of everyday life, Kwok captures and shares her unique perspective and emotions through her blurred and understated paintings. 

In the upcoming six months at HART Haus, Kelly intends to further develop her graduation project, the "Sight" series, and continue focusing on still life painting. Through oil paint, she aims to capture and document moments of daily life, much like writing a diary. During this time, she will also explore and refine her ideal artistic style, striving to express deeper emotions in her work.

郭子怡是一位畫家，在2024年畢業於香港浸信會大學視覺藝術學院。郭氏的創作靈感源自於對周遭環境和周遭人的敏銳觀察。探索日常生活中被忽視的細節，透過模糊而低調的畫作捕捉並分享她獨特的視角和情感。

在接下來的六個月中，郭氏計劃延續的畢業作品「Sight」系列，繼續專注於靜物畫，以油畫形式記錄日常生活中的瑣事和平淡瞬間，如同在書寫日記一樣。這段期間，她也會繼續探索和尋找理想的藝術風格，力求在作品中表達更深層的情感。

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Kwok Wah San is a media and installation artist with a passion for telling fragmentary and continuous stories through photography. In his past works, Kwok has always tried to take the strange phenomena of society and its feelings as the starting point, using readymade objects and human behaviors to intervene with them. The medium is not a limitation for Kwok, but rather a source of inspiration and a point of departure for his thinking. Most of his creative ideas come from patterns of behaviors in society and groups, reflecting on the strange connections between the readymade and human behaviors.

In the future, Kwok intends to start from his daily experience and continue to explore extensively how to discover alternative possibilities for the readymade objects around him.

郭華燊是一位媒體和裝置的藝術家，熱衷於透過拍攝來敍述片段性或連續性的故事。郭氏過往的作品一直嘗試以社會怪異的現象和當中的感受為出發點，運用現成物結合人類的行為對其進行干預。媒介對郭氏而言並非一個限制，反而是靈感的來源，是思考的出發點。他的創作理念多數來自於社會和群體中的行為模式，反思着現成物與人的行為如何產生怪異的連結。

未來的日子他打算從日常經驗着手，繼續廣泛地探討如何為身邊的現成物發掘出另類的可能性。

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Elsa Ngai graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts in 2024. Her graduation work explores the boundary between reality and illusion through the reconfiguration of memory images, constructing an unsettling psychological world beneath a calm exterior. Her works often involve stacking and polishing mineral pigments to blur the sense of time, using intuition and sketches to express the aura of objects.

During her residency at Hart Haus, Elsa hopes to embrace new transformations in her creative practice, experiment, and collaborate, uncovering further possibilities in artistic language.

魏舍椏於2024年獲得香港中文大學藝術學士學位，其畢業作品通過回憶意像的重組，探索真與幻之間的界限，建構平靜表象下不安的心理世界。她的作品常以礦物顏料堆疊與打磨，模糊作品的時間性，並運用直覺和寫生線條表現事物的靈光。

她希望在 HART Haus 駐留期間迎接創作上新的轉變、實驗與合作，發掘藝術語言的更多可能性。

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Tjia Man Yan, a recipient of the HART Award, graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Curating and Artistic Strategies in 2023. Delving into the idea of coexistence between humans and laws of nature, Tjia’s graduation work imagines how intentional binary oppositions will eventually reach uniformity. Conceptual and experimental painting as well as mixed-media creation are the focuses of her creative practice. Through constructing and deconstructing daily life and materials, she wishes to explore the nature of existence and the vulnerability of humanity.

謝旻蒑於2023年獲得香港中文大學藝術、策展及藝術策略學士學位，並於同年榮獲HART大獎。其畢業作品探討人類與自然法則共存的想法，並想像有意的二元對立最終如何會達致統一。在其藝術實踐中，她著重於概念性和實驗性的繪畫和混合媒介，通過建構和解構生活和物料的過程中探索存在概念和人性的脆弱性。

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Wai Mei Ting, a recipient of the HART Award, graduated from Hong Kong Baptist University with a Bachelor of Visual Arts in 2023. Basing her research on themes of “silence”, “solace”, and “home”, Wai’s graduation work reintroduces the comforting solace found at home during the pandemic. In her artistic practice, Wai often revisits senses evoked by the objects and reflects on her existing understanding of their meanings.

韋美婷於2023年畢業獲得香港浸會大學視覺藝術學士學位，並於同年榮獲HART大獎。其畢業作品圍繞「沉默」、「慰藉」和「家庭」等主題，深入探討疫情期間在家中獲得的慰藉。她的創作基礎以五感探索及剖析個體事物與情感間的連結，從而重新定義對它們既定的理解。

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Tracy Cheng (b. 2000, Hong Kong) and Shera Cho (b. 2000, Hong Kong) are the 2022 Academy of Fine Arts graduates at Hong Kong Baptist University, an artist-duo beginning their collaborations on media works during their University course and Honors project. In form of artist’s documentary photographs or online-sourced imageries, interactive video installations, and digital media, Cheng & Cho depict the contemporary world through hilarious and almost ridiculous approaches of story-telling.

鄭樂怡和左沁悅於 2000 年香港出生，是2022年香港浸會大學視覺藝術系的畢業生。於大學課程及畢業展創作時已開始合作，作品主要以她們的街拍攝影或網上圖片、錄像裝置及數碼媒介呈現。她們憑著有趣、甚至乎滑稽的敘述方式來反映現今的故事。

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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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