https://www.scmp.com/rss/521347/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com David Ho David Ho Step into the Landmark Atrium before April 17 and you’ll be greeted by a gigantic patchwork island, on top of which stands a series of cute figures. This spectacle is The Island – Onigashima, an interactive installation by Japanese multimedia artist Ayako Rokkaku. Wander under the island and you’ll find a plush passageway with windows, dangling objects and walls covered in a variety of textures. Here, unlike with most artworks, visitors are encouraged to touch and feel all that intrigues... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/article/3348821/multimedia-artist-ayako-rokkaku-finger-painting-and-creating-interactive-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/article/3348821/multimedia-artist-ayako-rokkaku-finger-painting-and-creating-interactive-art?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:00:10 +0000 Lavender Au Lavender Au To make his galvanised-iron installations, which have been exhibited in Milan and London, Hong Kong-born artist Gamzar heads to his metal master’s studio on the fourth floor of an industrial building in To Kwa Wan. The studio, managed by Melty Chan Ching-yee and Michael Yu Kwok-keung, aka Master Yu, is filled with tools: hammers, drills, pliers, clamps, a machine for folding metal made in Germany in the 1980s and even a chainsaw. From the window, the building looks out onto another industrial... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3347294/hong-kong-artist-gamzar-galvanised-working-iron-and-bamboo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3347294/hong-kong-artist-gamzar-galvanised-working-iron-and-bamboo?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:10 +0000 Gavin Yeung Gavin Yeung Gloria Chung Wing-han is best known in Hong Kong’s culinary circles as an itinerant food writer-turned-stylist and the founder of Foodandtravelhk, the Instagram-based media brand from which she shares her globetrotting adventures in gastronomy. So it’s all the more unexpected that the Hong Kong-born barometer of good taste has chosen to locate her food styling Batcave, if you will, in a sleepy private housing estate in Tai Tong, on the outskirts of far-flung Yuen Long. For Chung, the studio – a... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/food-drink/article/3336219/how-hong-kong-food-stylist-gloria-chung-creates-festive-table-home?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/food-drink/article/3336219/how-hong-kong-food-stylist-gloria-chung-creates-festive-table-home?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:12 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Before Bi Rongrong began weaving textiles or layering sculptural installations, she painted mountains. Trained in classical Chinese landscape painting at Sichuan University, she was steeped in a tradition wherein space flows not from fixed perspective, but from movement; where viewers are invited to “tour” the landscape, not simply observe it. Although it’s two-dimensional, “Chinese painting is never really flat,” she says. “It has many layers.” That spatial sensibility still guides her work,... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3327381/bi-rongrong-weaves-urban-skins-and-ancient-motifs-layered-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3327381/bi-rongrong-weaves-urban-skins-and-ancient-motifs-layered-art?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:45:15 +0000 Aaina Bhargava Aaina Bhargava Kary Kwok Ka-che encourages people to pose nude at least once in their lifetime. “I think everyone should have the experience of being naked in front of a camera,” he says. “It gives you a whole new perspective on yourself. It’s not like looking in the mirror.” Artist, editor, curator, Kwok wears many creative hats, but is best known for photography. From documenting queer nightlife in London and Hong Kong in the 1980s and 90s to his paradoxically bold yet vulnerable self-portraits, over the... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3326460/nudes-nightclubs-and-nostalgia-kary-kwok-life-behind-lens?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3326460/nudes-nightclubs-and-nostalgia-kary-kwok-life-behind-lens?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:15:08 +0000 Aaina Bhargava Aaina Bhargava Lean Lui appears at the door of her sunny Kwun Tong studio wearing a purple-and-black chequered raw-silk dress. Its neckline and torso are fashioned after a cheongsam, buttoned and fitted until the waist where it gives way to a voluminous skirt. Much like her photographs, the garment is feminine, balancing old-world charm and a contemporary edge. “I just bought the material from the old textile shops in Western Market, which are all about to close,” says Lui, concerned about the fate of its many... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3323481/self-taught-hong-kong-photographer-who-caught-eye-art-and-fashion-greats?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3323481/self-taught-hong-kong-photographer-who-caught-eye-art-and-fashion-greats?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:00:12 +0000 Aaina Bhargava Aaina Bhargava Freddy Carrasco is in the midst of an existential awakening when I arrive at his studio, tucked away in an unassuming walk-up building in Tsim Sha Tsui. It’s a scorching Hong Kong summer day. Inside, cool air blasts from air conditioning and high ceilings offer relief from the heat, while exposed red brick and dangling vintage “Edison” light bulbs create an industrial feel. But it’s the view outside – glimpses of Kowloon’s dense skyline veiled by bamboo scaffolding and green mesh – that... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3318224/how-artist-finds-sci-fi-inspiration-bamboo-scaffolding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3318224/how-artist-finds-sci-fi-inspiration-bamboo-scaffolding?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:15:07 +0000 Aaina Bhargava Aaina Bhargava In Hong Kong, no studio bends the rules of clay quite like the one Julie Progin and Jesse Mc Lin have built in Chai Wan. Inside the 3,500 sq ft industrial warehouse, some vases appear to ooze frozen liquid; others erupt in otherworldly forms – futuristic landscapes in shades of blue, grey and violet. Elsewhere, perforated surfaces mimic coral or scholar rocks, emerging from a sea of porcelain. Progin and Mc Lin met in New York and launched their first ceramics brand, Latitude 22N, in Brooklyn.... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3316923/meet-artists-remoulding-rules-working-clay?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3316923/meet-artists-remoulding-rules-working-clay?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:15:08 +0000