Women + Ink | China + Hong Kong
Visual Arts
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Alisan Fine Arts, a pioneering gallery in the promotion of New Ink Art, is pleased to present a group exhibition for six emerging women artists, each deserving of the increasing attention paid to artworks by female artists within the realm of contemporary Chinese art. The genesis for this show is one rooted in our gallery’s historic commitment to the promotion of female voices, demonstrated by our group shows “Beyond the Jade Terrace” (2014) and “Hope” (2018), and reinforced by the recent buzz throughout the Hong Kong artistic community surrounding the publication of Eliza Gluckman’s Hong Kong-based case study into the realities of a gendered glass ceiling inhibiting the careers of women artists. Gluckman, the former Curator for the New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University, worked alongside independent researcher Phoebe Wong and the Asia Art Archive to research and launch their findings in a series of programming around the group exhibition Women in Art: Hong Kong held at Sotheby’s in 2018 and at Murray Edwards earlier this year, which included artwork from female artists represented by AFA. According to the research, a very high percentage of women (around 70%) graduate from art programmes in Hong Kong, yet very few succeed to lucrative careers as full-time artists. In solidarity, we decided to take a closer look at the de facto emerging women artists working in both Hong Kong and further afield in China, within the major focus area for our gallery, that of contemporary ink art. The exhibition includes three artists from China: Zhang Yirong from Beijing, Qiao Yuan from Shanghai, and Chu Chu from Hangzhou, and three from Hong Kong: Cheuk Ka-wai, Hui Hoi-Kiu, and Ling Pui-Sze. These six artists, from the perspective of women of the 21st century, are at the forefront of a movement to take traditional ink painting into a new era.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2019" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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