(Textile Catalyst, Hong Kong) Edith Cheung juggles her time between commercial and self-initiated projects as a textile catalyst. She takes interest in all textile-related matters, ancient and modern, East and West. After returning to Hong Kong from New York and Europe in the late 1980s, she started working as a costume designer in the film industry. At the 27th Golden Horse Award, Cheung was awarded the Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction for her work in Director Yim Ho’s […]
(Director, Business Development, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textile and Apparel, Hong Kong) Experienced in textile and apparel manufacturing, sourcing and retailing. Prior to joining HKRITA, she was Division Merchandising Manager in Ralph Lauren, responsible for global sourcing, cost planning, merchandising, and material and product development. Before that, Chan worked with a number of global textile and apparel companies, responsible for global sourcing, merchandising, licensing, and research and development. Chan graduated with a Higher Diploma in Textile Technology from […]
(Founder, PET Lamp, Spain) Álvaro Catalán de Ocón in 2004 starts up his own studio in Barcelona where he designs LA FLACA lamp, winner of the Design plus Award (Frankfurt) and DELTA Awards in Barcelona. After his travel to the Colombian Amazon in 2011, he founds PET Lamp. This is a project that mixes the reuse of PET plastic bottles with selected traditional weaving techniques from different corners of the world in order to create unique handmade lampshades. Currently he […]
(Artist, Australia) Nicole Barakat is an artist lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She works to unpick the borders of art and life, re-examining intersections between drawing and textiles, collaboration, live work and community-engagement. Her work embodies the love and patience that often characterises traditional textile practices. Nicole approaches making as a form of meditation, with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life, conjuring new ways of thinking, feeling and envisioning reality. Barakat’s practice includes extensive collaborative community-engagement. Within […]
Live and work in New York. Working together since 1991, Anthony Aziz (b. 1961, Massachusetts, USA) and Sammy Cucher (b.1958, Lima, Peru) have been internationally acclaimed as pioneers of digitally manipulated photographs in a contemporary art context. Morphing the human body, disorientating the landscape, and transposing subject matter, Aziz + Cucher create disturbing yet intriguing images which make us contemplate our past, present and future. Dragging us into their imagined world, their art poses questions about the evolution of technology […]
Born in 1977, lives and works in Taipei. Yin-Ju Chen engages herself in the odyssey of the universe, beyond the galaxy. Evolving from her video practice, Chen’s current works include photos, drawings and installations, embodying her interest in the functions of power, nationalism, racism, totalitarianism, collective thinking and the collective (un)conscious. The multiple layers of interpretation in Chen’s works combine ancient beliefs and modern history. She researches and investigates the hypotheses in both science and pseudoscience, uncovering the unforeseen circumstances […]
Born in 1984, lives and works in Hong Kong Time has always been a central subject in Morgan Wong’s work. Beyond individual experiences and social connotations, his subtle actions and gestures reveal the formal aesthetics of temporality – inevitable, relentless and yet exquisite. Morgan Wong works with a broad range of media, and focuses on performance, sculpture and video. His perceptions of time are mediated through objects as vehicles, luring us into his predicament regarding the irrepressibility of time as […]
(Textile Creator, Renowned Textile Designer) A renowned master of fiber artist, was born in Kiryu of Japan. He started doing hand weaving at an early age in his family’s mill, and has since devoted to innovative design of fabrics. In the 1970s and 1980s, he collaborated with the renowned fashion designers, such as Issey Miyake and Rei Kawkubo, to integrate the innovation of fabrics into fashion design. From 1970s, Arai worked on Jacquard textiles and produced the effect of oriental […]