Sharon Cheung: Our Time

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Humans are like paintings, especially portraits that reflect people’s faces. The sketches or engravings of people’s faces have occupied an important place in art history.

Human faces are vital parts and positions in sending and receiving messages. The portraits’ expressions can provide us hints about the art works. These include feelings and thoughts that artists are trying to convey, human relations and even the ambience in which the artists have lived.

Artist Sharon Cheung started her career as a journalist. She is a veteran media person. She has sharp insights about the Hong Kong society. This list of 51 portraits of hers was completed between 2020 and 2022. During this period Hong Kong and other parts of the world were affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Human lives are under severe threats. Moreover, the political atmosphere worldwide has become more complex and tense, thanks to the pandemic. Hong Kong can’t stay aloof or immune from it.

Sharon takes her close friends as objects in her portrait-painting. They come from different walks of life in Hong Kong . The artist believes that only concretization can express the impulsiveness of one’s feelings. Through the distortion of the human faces the artist aims at presenting the true picture of moods and emotions. Therefore, these 51 portraits either distort the faces or demolish their original structures. Sharon believes that through the distorted portraits people’s emotions, anxieties, uneasiness, and fears are revealed in a changing society.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Sharon Cheung Po-Wah is a veteran Hong Kong journalist, she obtained her BA degree of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Cheung is also fellow of the Reuters Institute for Journalism at the University of Oxford, as well as the founder of “Lion Rock Fellowship” at the University of Oxford.

In 2022, Cheung received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), graduated with first class honors. She also received the Dean List Award and the Boon Lee Award. Cheung is director of a local gallery, SC gallery. SC Gallery aims to introduce contemporary artists who are currently at the forefront of Hong Kong art scene. Cheung believes with artists ranging from abstract printers to realism artists, the diverse backgrounds and styles in SC Gallery’s curation come together to show the many facets that comprise the new face of Hong Kong.