Scraps of fabric, masks, old frames, and plastic flowers are just some of the quirky items that are strewn across Marc Standing's Chai Wan studio.
"It is my creative environment so I've always surrounded myself with bits and pieces I collect on my travels and objects that inspire me," says the 38-year-old.
But what influences his work more than these trinkets are his global roots. The artist, who graduated in fine arts from Cape Town University, South Africa, in 1999, was born and raised in Zimbabwe. He now divides his time between Hong Kong and Sydney.
Standing says his experience in these three places - which each have their own British colonial past - has had a great impact on his career over the past 14 years.
"Themes concerning displacement, identity and our mortality run through a lot of my work. Having moved around in my life, I have always been interested in how we identity ourselves within a heightened age of globalisation," says Standing.