I am Jacques Henri Dick and I have been a sculptor for 26 years.
I started woodcarving at 10 years old, because I was passionate about watching my dad, Lewis Dick transform dead wood into artistic work.
Since my young age, I had the chance to participate in local exhibitions. In 2007, I had the opportunity to participate in a sculpture competition in Switzerland where I won the public prize.
This award was a motivation for me to practice wood carving and since that I had participated in several artistic international exchanges such as France, Austria among others.
I give sculptor training to young people in my workshop ‘Ecole de Sculpture’ de Bambous and I work a lot on sculpture orders.
My name is Julia Desveaux, I’ll be 20 years old in March 2023, I’m from Mauritius. I just finished HSC and currently waiting for my results and thinking of studying Architecture later in university. Art has always been my passion and I also want it to be my I future.
I love being able to create an object using my hands. Such as turning emotions into a tangible object and sculpture is a great way of portraying an untangible object into a visible, tangible one .
I’ve worked with Mr Lewis Dick for one year and a half and I learnt a lot from him and hope of learning more from this event and also more about Malaysia and its wonders. I also hope that I’ll be able to learn from the other artists who will be present at the event.
I’m thrilled of being one of the ten people going to this event with Mr Lewis Dick. I’m eager to participate, to visit Langkawi and meet the people of Langkawi. See you in November 2023.
I am an artist from Narathiwat Province located in the southern province of Thailand. Born in a Muslim family and raised in a Muslim community. My work is unique as I am a true-blue Thai citizen with artwork consist the aura of Malay world. Probably due to our land relatively close to Malaysia and the community here have been practising the Malay culture for thousands of years.
I’m happy every time I make art. It gives me freedom for thoughts, good internal feeling in and out and provide therapy that give me the sense of relaxation and focus. I am an independent artist. I enjoy working on patterns and precise in every details. My works are strictly technical with variation of styles. I try and do new things as a form of process to improve my work, sticking to the original form.
FAITH series
I convey the impression of the beautiful heart of my beloved grandmother, which represents the strong faith in religion and the belief in the good values that my grandmother guided me when I was a child. I realised the today’s world is full with materialistic struggle, competition and greed for power. I trust religion will lead us to a good life and refrain us from making the wrong turn in life and cause injustice to others. In my works, I repeatedly mentioned the importance of praying 5 times to remind ourselves to good deeds. Every prayer will make us close to God hence give us peace while living in this challenging world.
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TRACES OF LIFE
It is a series of works that I experimented with various techniques. The content is still about myself and my family. I conveying them through mixed media art and presented in a semi-abstract way. Table cloths are brought in to present the story of a mother (a widow) who has to face hardships, endure and stay strong, struggle with hope, faith and love, a driving force that continue her living in this real world
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STILL LIFE
The Still Life series is a super realistic painting. It has been recomposed into a work that I would like to experiment with a simple form of content. A straightforwardly conveyed to encourage viewers to feel relax, comfortable yet aesthetically unique.
Exposed in art since childhood coming from a family of artists. Studied art at a university and worked with his father as an apprentice before finally discovering his very own style.
He started with painting but later veered towards sculpture and produced contemporary and functional artworks. He liked the challenge of working with three-dimensional art. Softening the look of stiff materials such as wood, marble, stone, and different kinds of metals like brass and copper. He exhibited his works in various international locations such as New York, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia, Hongkong, Singapore, China, India, Korea and Peru among many others. He represented the country in several international events, just recently as Art Ambassador for The Art Pivot in Udaipur, India.
He has also participated in art biennales, on-the-spot sculpture making and conducting workshops to further master his craft and to be able to give back for his gift of creativity.
Sanae Yamada was born in Ehime, Japan in 1972, she has lived in Malaysia with her Malaysian husband and two children since 2003. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Kyoto City University of Arts.
After a long career as an illustrator, she began working on her own art in 2014. Since her children have grown up, she has devoted herself to painting tropical nature. She draws inspiration from the rich nature of Malaysia.
She likes to participate in art exchange programs and art camps held in natural places together with Malaysian and International artists. Then she makes use of the experience there to create her artwork.
Innately Tunisian visual artist, her talent was discovered at an early childhood, developed by Tunisian artists drawing lessons. She found a way for herself in the world of oil painting and after she participated on many national and international exhibitions, for example (Tunisian – France – Arab Emirates-Sultanate Omanet Germany)
After the multiplicity of experiences and exchange of experiences she became able to develop her own approach, taking advantage of light, vivid colors characterized her country, Tunis on an Artistic way where she found a great admiration, of a wide audience of all nationalities, capped by winning the first prize exhibition of Olivet city in France on 2015out of 150 participants from different countries from the world. This Award gave her moral impetus to reach global manner of Tunisia to express her love for the drawing to her beloved country Tunisia.
On Each plate Hanen emerges life with happiness between colors and and shapes where she found herself living in its content. Her passion for the art exhibition was born with the first panel painted in 2003.Her love for this art has increased its ambition to Continue the journey with determination and consistency. Each panel painted live with happiness between colors and shapes.
Hanen began with painting of a variety of contexts over the years, she specialized in drawing oil paintings, the the Arab old city of Tunis. The traditional character in the privacy of forms and colors modest two feathers wanted to revive the memory of Tunisia always reflect on her painting.
A painting depicting a daily scene documenting one of Tunisia’s alleys in the beautiful time of black and white, in complete coexistence of the three most important religions in this country: Islam, Judaism and Christianity, and the peace that prevails for all
Technique =Oil painting on canvas technique knife.
I am a Visual Development Artist and Illustrator. Crafting stories and worlds have always been a passion of mine, something that fuels my soul and creativity.
As a mover of pixels, I am constantly traveling in a vehicle fueled with a deep passion for unique spaces, imagination and stories.
When I am not drawing, you will find me dancing, reading and taking care of my ever-growing plant collection at my current workspace.
Winnie MAK (b. 1956 Hong Kong) is a contemporary ink painter who studied Western art and ink painting through workshops offered by LEE Byng (1903-1994), a renowned watercolourist, and LAM Chin-shek (1918-1990), a noted painter, calligrapher, and seal-carver in Canada.
After returning to Hong Kong in 1994, she set up her studio and conducted painting classes for children.
Apart from developing her own artwork, she administered an array of art projects and visual arts exhibitions, in her capacity as curator and organizer for the Hong Kong Committee of the Federation of Asian Artists, under the aegis of the Home Affair Bureau of HKSAR, and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, with rewarding results.
Mak was recognised with a Special Jury Award at International Mini Prints 2020 organised by International Printmaking Center, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei.
Her artworks have been included in the permanent collection of: The Duanghuang Arts Centre, China (2001); The Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center in Bangkok, the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, the Ministry of Culture of Thailand (2013); The International Printmaking Center of the National Taiwan Normal University (2017); The Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art of the St. Petersburg State University (2018); Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2019); And in Hong Kong: the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong (2007); Yiqingzhai Studio (2013); The Hongkong Land Limited (2018); and other corporate and private collectors, both locally and internationally.
EDDIE LUI FUNG NGAR (aka LV Fengya in Putonghua) was born in 1947 in Hong Kong, where his parents had settled some years earlier. However, while still a toddler, Eddie’s parents took him to their former rural home in Haifeng County, Guangdong Province, where he stayed until 1956 before returning to his place of birth to receive an education.
Growing up in a city where East meets West, Eddie was privileged to witness the sociological changes in Hong Kong and its one-of-a-kind metamorphosis from a light industrial port to a regional manufacturing hub; and then from a busy entrepot to one of the world’s leading financial service centres; and subsequently transforming into a sophisticated metropolis where art and culture could flourish.
In his late teens, having secured his livelihood with a nine-to-five job at a local bank, Eddie pursued his art studies by enrolling in a three-year part-time visual arts programme with the Extramural Studies Department (now SPACE, the School of Professional and Continued Education) at The University of Hong Kong. This uniquely structured institution, under the directorship of Jon A. Prescod (1925– 1994), utilised established artists, art critics and historians whose tutorials helped nurture a new breed of visual artists who became leading practitioners in the Asia Pacific art scene.
Encouraged by his experiences, Eddie chose to spend a further year taking a specialised Sunday programme in contemporary ink art at the same institution. That timely involvement in the developmental path of the contemporary ink movement, pioneered by Hong Kong’s leading ink painters, furnished him with a multifaceted approach towards the realisation of his unique direction in contemporary ink culture.
Eddie’s first one-person ink painting exhibition in 1973 was the catalyst to establishing his artistic career and taking a leading role in developing contemporary art in Hong Kong. That same year he helped set up the Hong Kong Visual Arts Society in partnership with other major players passionately preaching and spreading a unique visual art culture.
So began Eddie’s double-life of banker by day and art promoter and practitioner in every spare moment. His managerial and operations exposure with international financial institutions enhanced his career path and enriched his working life; it had in many ways expanded his vision on the role of art in the nature of life. He currently lives in Hong Kong, practicing visual art, 3-D design and working as a visual art consultant.
His artworks are included in the permanent collection of the Douro Museum, Alijo, Portugal (2022 & 2019); the Diaghilev Museum of Modern Art of the St. Petersburg State University (2019); the International Printmaking Centre of the National Taiwan Normal University (2019); the Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2018); the Xishuangbanna Museum of Ethnology, Jinghong City, Yunnan, China (2018); the Gao Xiaohua Museum of Fine Arts, the Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu City, Szechuan, China (2017); Kinmen County Ceramics Factory, Kinmen Islands, Taiwan (2010); Jingdezhen Ceramic Art Museum, Jiangxi Province, China (2004); the Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2001); Ibrahim Hussein Museum and Cultural Foundation, Langkawi, Malaysia (2000); the Ceramic Art Museum, Foshan, China (2000); Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre, Alberta, Canada (1993); And in Hong Kong, the M+, Hong Kong; The Hong Kong Museum of Art; The Hong Kong Heritage Museum; University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Arts Centre; The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts; The MTR Corporation, Hong Kong; the Hong Kong Jockey Club; the Hongkong Land Limited and other cultural bodies and corporations and private collectors.
Artist’s Statement by Eddie Lui
Starting from “Close Encounter with Nature”
從《微觀穹蒼》講起 … 呂豐雅創作⾃⽩
My Work 作品
In my ink painting, I employ various skills of textural treatment as that had been rendered by the literati painters in depicting their spiritual tour of the countryside landscapes. I also have the habit of hammering my ceramic forms with plentiful of handmade physical texture.
Call it a happy coincidence whereby the painter of contemporary subjects and maker of wood-fired ceramic objects are having so much fun in creating negative space and lines from that chunks of dark splash and ink dots; and the painstaking way of coming up with the textural effect on the smooth surface of that big lump of clay.
我的現代⽔墨繪畫引⽤了很多中國⼭⽔畫𥚃的皴法，其構圖效果為我的畫⾯提供了豐富的肌理感覺。
My modern ink painting cites a lot of Chinese mountain water painting 𥚃’s cracking method, and its composition effect provides my picture with a rich sense of texture.
This kind of crackling pattern formed from black and white echoes with the rough texture I created by hand in the firewood pottery sculpture, and it is also a little joy and harvest for the creator who is fortunate to travel from craft production to visual art creation.
Human origins and the essence of sexual love has been the main inspiration for my work for years. There is a longing for a time when humans lived in harmony with nature and when they could forget their anxiety about an uncertain contemporary world. This modern life is one in which more technology leads to less love and more discovery leads to more pollution. People become more realistic and less romantic so coming back to their origins becomes a popular aspiration.
