《畫家宅》現已出版
由繪畫大道中策劃，禮聘作者啡白，籌備四年，走訪香港15位繪畫創作者，把他們的人生及藝術觀編寫成為情味十足的故事。
15位畫家：呂振光、周俊輝、黃進曦、何倩彤、黎卓華、石家豪、香建峰、馬琼珠、梁嘉賢、盧樂謙、區凱琳、曾翠薇、林東鵬、智海、陳偉邦。
啡白：從事藝術行政管理工作，曾著《夫妻檔》，這本《畫家宅》是他第三本著作。
《畫家宅》由三聯書店出版，現於香港書展有售，或到其他書店找找。
The English title of the exhibition ‘Minding the G(r)a(s)p’ is a triple entendre—gap, gasp, grasp. It is a way to draw attention to the space between seeing and knowing in the exhibition viewing experience. The gasp is the surprise when the audience discovers new narratives or ideas when they are able to look beyond preconceived notions related to the seven mid-career artists/artist collectives on view in the exhibition. The exhibition’s curator Celia Ho proposes to the audience to approach each work individually, in order to grasp the significance and context behind each one of them.
This study tested 2 hypotheses: (a) tactile experience is critical to the effect of creation of clay work in enhancing psychological well-being, and (b) sense of temperature is one of the mediating factors that underlies the effectiveness of tactile experience. Using an experimental research design, 36 Chinese adult participants created clay work with a half-pound of clay in a 30-min session either using their bare hands or wearing gloves. Participants who created clay work using bare hands improved significantly in positive mood and well-being immediately after the session, whereas those wearing gloves showed no improvements. The effect of tactile experience due to using bare hands on improving well-being was fully mediated by the sense of temperature of the clay.
《As Time Folds》is a post-exhibition memoir of Ivy Ma Solo Exhibition held at ACO Art Space, now solely available at ACO. The book compiles of sketches by Ivy Ma, writings by Curator Evelyn Char and Art Critic/ Artist/ Writer Chan Sai Lok; alongside with two extracts from the forums held during the exhibition “The ‘Unspoken’of Ivy Ma──An interpretation by Longtin” and “When Body Intervenes into Material: Kurt Chan on Material, both within and beyond, in Ivy Ma”.
The research was carried out by Rachel Cheung, Lecturer / Programme Coordinator (Project), with two alumni – Winus Lee, Ida Yu and a current student – Suzanne Au. The team were proceeding a study with the alumni who studied the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) programme jointly presented by HKAS and RMIT University, Australia, with ceramics as major.
