EVENT DESCRIPTION
Alisan Fine Arts is excited to present Cherie Cheuk’s long awaited first solo exhibition in Hong Kong. Featuring fifteen works from four distinct series—Gathering of Ten Fragrances, Transcending Boundaries, Ballad of the Seasons, and Mutual Reflections—the exhibition reimagines ink art through contemporary perspectives. Steeped in Song Dynasty painting traditions yet fluent in digital- age visual culture, Cheuk bridges antiquity and modernity with lyrical wit, transforming classical techniques into vibrant dialogues with our times.
A graduate of Hong Kong’s rigorous ink painting programmes, Cheuk represents a generation that honours tradition while embracing conceptual freedom. Her works retain Song Dynasty technical mastery—evident in exquisite renderings of birds and branches—yet pulse with comic book energy and digital-age hybridity. The artist’s earlier triptych Eternal Current visualizes this duality: seabirds and waves form an infinity symbol, capturing what Cheuk calls “life’s unbroken rhythm within fragmented time.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER
Cherie Cheuk Ka-wai (b.1989 in Hong Kong) earned a BA in Fine Arts with first-class honours at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012 and completed her MA in Fine Arts there in 2017, specializing in Chinese gongbi painting. Her compositions are rich with symbols, myths and memories, drawing from her personal experiences. Her practice also probes the development of gongbi after it reached its peak in Northern Song Dynasty, attempting to rejuvenate this traditional Chinese art form in the contemporary context.Cheuk has exhibited and participated in various programmes in China and Korea. Her many accolades include the Prof. Johnson Chow Su Sing Chinese Painting & Calligraphy Award, Hong Kong Chinese Meticulous Painting Association Creative Award, Madam Jan Yun-bor Memorial Awards for Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, and Liu Kuo-Sung Ink Art Award.
