Phone Box of Echoes

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Opening on 21 October at Yrellag gallery Mid-levels, Phone Box of Echoes is a duo artist exhibition featuring two local artists, Calis Leung and Esther Wong. They shared the experience of inner awareness of societies.

They created their own representation to respond to both internal concerns through ceramic and painting.
With the chemical reactions between the fire of pottery making and the unknown materials in found objects, Calis expresses her sentiments of wars. Wars seem distant from us, but those were the bedtime stories for Calis throughout her childhood, as her father had once experienced wars.

Meanwhile, Esther adopts colour pencils and watercolour as mediums to depict the inner relationship between humans and society, which is sometimes intimate, while sometimes estranged. Confronting the ever-changing generation, Esther thinks that we lack some space and time to understand our own feelings, and her perception may echo your state.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Calis Leung graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT University/Hong Kong Art School, now studying at The Hong Kong Chinese University with her M.A. in Fine Art. She had received a Louis Vuitton scholarship, Mr Jerry Kwan Memorial Scholarship, Franz Rising Star Award and Scholarship. She had her first solo exhibition in 2021. Her art practice focuses on the perception of life, community and animal rights. Those inconspicuous things and activities that happened in everyday life always inspired and fascinated her.

Wong Chun Yan, Esther is an artist who graduated from The Education University in 2018 and finished her Master of Arts in Fine Arts Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2022. Esther loves illustration and explores emotions in her artworks by using coloured pencils, watercolours, digital painting etc. She has participated in “Made in Hong Kong”, a special exhibition at Art Central 2022.