November 2019 - December 2020
Hausians (Recipients of Studio Grants)
Shane Aspegren
Shane Aspegren’s work juxtaposes carefully-crafted elements with improvisational aspects, exploring a non-disciplined and non-dualistic perspective on such topics as ritual, group dynamics, societal customs, consciousness, and human response to natural phenomena. He is largely known for his work with music and sound, which often plays an integral part in his installations, images, videos, objects, and performances.
Pui Chee Chui
Born in 1980, Dr Pui Chee Chui apprenticed under Mr. Jat See-yeu and Professor Wang Dong-ling. After obtaining his first 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.
Nadim Abbas and Tap Chan [NaP]
Nadim Abbas’ practice examines the mercurial properties of images and their ambiguous relationship with reality. Referencing a diverse range of subjects - from bunker archaeology to otaku subcultures - he instills generic forms with unfamiliar associations, in an attempt to describe the “invisible violences” that permeate seemingly innocuous facets of everyday life.
Tap Chan's works mostly appear in the form of installations, videos and sculptures. She is interested in exploring the idea of liminality that is embedded in daily life, where the boundaries between fiction and reality are often blurred, like the undefined psychic and emotional ruptures experienced during bouts of insomnia. To construct a narrative of the subterranean mind that rumbles beneath the facade of modern existence.
Herman Rahman
Herman Rahman is a research-led Singaporean photographic artist, who is represented by AI Gallery, London. Rahman’s work explores political trauma and suffering, through the blurred dichotomies of fact and fiction. His interest lies in investigating state power structures and making visual these abuses of power, taking a stance as a ‘frustrated journalist’, with a responsibility to document, criticize, and show.
With a fascination with archival photographs and 'lost' histories, Rahman believes that the role of an artist, is to bring up these histories as a departure point for many of contemporary society's many questions and dilemmas. Besides offering questions, the artist also seeks to offer hope and ambition, that through navigating the foggy haze of modern life, through care, mutual aid, and a common goal, building a new world is possible.
Sharu Binnong Sikdar
Sharu Binnong Sikdar (b.1994) is a Hong Kong born Indian Filipino. Sikdar’s artistic practice is repetitive and labour-intensive as she collects and reconstructs found objects. Sikdar utilizes branches, barks, leaves and her hair as main medium. This leads her to explore the relationship between nature and human beings, the ephemerality and personal growth.
Sikdar graduated with a Painting B.F.A in 2017 at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Hong Kong.
The Buoy
The Buoy was formed as a collaboration between Jen Yoohyun Lee and Marty Miller. The two independent practitioners wondered, “how could creative practice navigate times of uncertainty?” Rooted in personal histories of transitions, The Buoy aims to be present during times of flux by staying rooted but able to shift with the current of events. The Buoy consciously drifts across the blurred boundaries of visual culture through practicing socially-engaged art & design as well as photography and installation. The mission of The Buoy is to stay lighthearted yet stay engaged enough to look beneath the waves of change.
Wu Jiaru
Wu Jiaru is a Hong Kong-based artist who received her dual BA degrees in Fine Arts and English Language from Tsinghua University in 2014, and her MFA from the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong in 2017. Her work is in the collections of M+ Museum, Burger Collection, etc. She recently received the New York fellowship grant from the Asian Cultural Council.
Sharyn Wortman
Sharyn Wortman was born in 1970 in Melbourne where she completed her BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Communication at Melbourne University. She moved to London where she was nominated in The Observer as one of The Future 500 Rising Stars in 2009. In 2010 she was made a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in London. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the V&A Museum ‘Inspired By’ competition for her entry "Hong Cong." Sharyn Wortman has recently completed a Fine Art Degree, at Hong Kong Art School in association with RMIT Melbourne.
Hausians
Ane Alfeiran
Ane Alfeiran is a self-taught Mexican artist who, from a young age, found an escape in art and a forum in which to express her feelings, hopes and fears. As someone who continues to travel the globe, Alfeiran draws on inspiration and technique from the different cities and cultures she has experienced. Alfeiran takes us into the emotional world of each of her subjects, making each painting stand out with its own individual story. Through a deep personal connection present in her compositions, she aims to stimulate the viewer’s feelings and imagination and encourage them to create their own interpretation of what the art means to them.
BH
BH is a slashie mutant who is interested in observing various living forms and patterns, contextualising and recasting them with new suggested meanings through contemporary paintings. It is also a monologue process to identify his own form, understand the relationship between his own formation and other forms of relationships, as well as to navigate the impact and value of his existence to society. He believes the best way to characterize himself would be the egg itself.
Damian Boylan
Damian Boylan became a scientist, and completed a Master’s degree (MEng) in Aerospace Engineering, long before turning to art. Those early beginnings pervade his work, which is multidisciplinary in range, including Painting, Photography, Videography and Sound. His methodology is more akin to scientific investigation. Boylan experiments with fundamental physical phenomena, and expands upon them, presenting the result to the viewer as art. The intent of his work is about something fundamental and perpetual. In essence, it is an unearthing of the very building blocks of this universe.
Cindy Chan
Cindy Chan is a film veteran with solid and diverse experience in international film institutions. She also started nurturing the next generation in films schools Hong Kong in these years. With her film knowledge, Chan applied her concept and skills into artwork, creating a unique direction of Zentangle inspired arts and meditative oriented direction. She recently participated at the Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair in 2018 and 2019 consecutively.
Noémie Clavier
Noémie Clavier is dedicated to visual and interactive practices: whether in the field of print or digital, graphic design and/or illustration. The openness to different disciplines helps her to meet the challenges of conceptualizing a project that is no longer limited to a single form.
In her personal projects, Clavier plays with different medium, using, for example, a technique as traditional as illustration and silkscreen printing to approach digital and tech topics. To take the opposite direction of codes and invoke the unexpected. She also likes to evoke the sensitive, because design is a profoundly human discipline, through narrative and playful principles.
hiu.K Studio
Hiu and Karen started a studio back in 2016. Being partners in life and design, they set out to become a professional team to be known as ‘hiu.K studio’.
Their studio specialized in tailor made architectural and interior design solutions to residential setting in various sizes and location.
Hiu and Karen live and work in Hong Kong, and travel the world for inspiration. They believe design is a median that connects people. It combines historical, cultural and humanity value; preserve tradition and brings innovation in modern context.
Doris Ng
Born in Hong Kong and convent educated until age 17, Doris Ng moved to Melbourne to complete BA Degree in Business at Monash University. She is currently studying a Fine Arts Degree at Hong Kong Art School in association with RMIT, and MA Degree in Arts and Cultural Enterprises at University of Arts London. Since 2017, she works as an artist and art project director.
Trained in pencil, pastel and oil painting since small age, Ng now incorporates her research methodology into practice-led-research artwork, where she examine the paradoxes in mankind and confront contradictory inter-relationships. She does not seek ‘unification’ in things, instead she embraces diversity and multiple perceptions.
Sunstorm Studios
Sunstorm Studios is a collaboration between two artists with divergent backgrounds; both influenced by living and working amongst Hong Kong’s dynamic cultural mesh. Valeria Alexandra and Patrick Framel create mixed media kinetic artworks with elements of metal, paper and electricity, both for commercial installations and fine arts collectors. A fusion of old and new, a clash of textures and purpose, the works playfully call attention to the mass production of consumer waste. With these recycled materials, the series breathes new life into discarded objects, telling the stories of a city through a lens of dystopian surrealism.
Amy Maria Tong
Amy Maria Tong is known for her abstract experimentation on possible scenarios. Her work is often a collage of idealised, multi-layered scenarios, expressing the emotional traces from her daily encounters with society. Treading around the realm of truth, rituals, and absurdities, Tong creates textured environments to explore the complexity of human emotions within surrealist settings.
KC Wong
A multi-discipline artist, KC Wong has been involved in illustration & animation production, visual merchandising and art creation. KC has worked on commercial visual communication projects with companies in both Hong Kong and China. KC is the founder of “Sick Sick Creation" - a creative agency focusing at story-telling, as well as brand building.
KC brings a depth of experience in visual communication to his creations, with a BA (Hons) in Design and Visual Communication (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2003), and qualifications in Advertising Design and Computer Art and Design.
Yang Hu Nan
Yang Hu Nan (Hong Kong, China) graduated from the Mural Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts as a graduate student. Title: Art Research Librarian (Professor) is currently Dean of the Hong Kong Academy of Painting. Visiting Professor, School of Fine Arts, Central University for Nationalities. Director of overseas department of oil painting institute of national painting institute. Member of China Minority Art Promotion Association.
Partner Hausians
Cassie Kaixin Liu
Cassie Kaixin Liu is an artist and writer based in southern China. She works across installation, videography, performance, and writing projects. In her practice, she appropriates varying motifs found in sound, light and texts to construct spaces, atmospheres and narratives. Her works discuss topics ranging from the interrelationship between body and space to regional diasporic experiences in southern China, often resulted from and fuelled by her negotiations with her own identities and surroundings. Liu obtained her Bachelor’s Degree from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Sheeta Ng
Sheeta Ng is the Founder of NSW Arts Company Limited. She graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a M.A. degree in Cultural Management, and a Bachelor of Communication (Marketing and Advertising Communication) from the University of Canberra. As a member of Dharma Drum Mountain (Hong Kong) Zen Drum Group, Ng is also a singing bowl, Shaman Drum and Reiki practitioner. She held senior arts administration positions in sizable organisations, such as the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tai Kwun and the Hong Kong Arts Centre and Mplus.
In 2019, Ng received the 58th Venice Biennale Internship and 2015, the Sage Gateshead UK Internships for the community music projects "Music Spark" and "Co-Musica". She also has profound experience in music education. With a Postgraduate Certificate in Music Therapy from HKUSPACE, and the ABRSM Grade 8 certifications on Vocal and Piano, Ng taught in secondary, primary school, and Hong Kong Treble Choir.