Dawn Chorus by Chui Pui-chee x
Batten and Kamp
Dawn Chorus is a collaborative installation combining the ink painting of renowned contemporary ink artist Chui Pui-chee, and the sculptural furniture of design-art duo Batten and Kamp.
Chui’s latest large-scale ink painting Nine Abysses is a serene Northern Song Dynasty style landscape where the artist depicts pine trees and jagged rocks rising from the abysses to represent a recent personal triumph over darkness. Batten and Kamp’s best known works explore notions of place and our connection to the land, while their recent explorations turn to the heavens for inspiration.
Conceived in response to the sublime emptiness of Chui’s painting, Batten and Kamp assemble a collection of their works to create an installation that might be seen as a landscape within a landscape, one which takes inspiration from the fleeting moment of transition between darkness and light.
About the Artists
Chui Pui-chee
Chui Pui-chee apprenticed under Mr. Jat See-yeu and Professor Wang Dong-ling. After obtaining his first degree in Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chui furthered his postgraduate studies at the Department of Chinese Calligraphy, China Academy of Art, where he obtained his Master of Arts and Doctoral Degrees. Chui's artworks are collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology of University of Oxford, and are popular among private collectors.
Batten and Kamp
Batten and Kamp is a creative partnership between interior architect Alexandra Batten and designer/artist Daniel Kamp. The duo creates one of-a-kind furniture, objects, installations, and interiors with clients and collaborators in Hong Kong, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific. Their projects have received accolades around the world, most recently their Shelter to Ground collection was published in esteemed cultural publications such as Design Boom and Design Anthology.
About HAPPEN with HART
HAPPEN with HART is a project initiated by HART to present creativity and artistic talents in Hong Kong. The idea is to demonstrate a great diversity and variety of art in the city, especially found in HART communities.
Every talented presenter invited to engage in this project shares the same values and beliefs - in creativity, in collaborations and in the strength of communities. In the quest of art making, and the journey of discovery of their becoming, HART the initiative evolves with the creative souls.
We believe that each and every individual possesses knowledge and experience in aesthetics, and a glimpse of art can connect people. Each presentation of selected collaborative projects lasts for 3 weeks to a month, the creators realise their own concepts, subject matters and ideas by formulating and producing what you see at the window space of HQ Hall.
Through the diversity in mediums, contrasts of tradition and innovation, each showcase captures the creative talent that makes up our vibrant city, and is made meaningful by its encounter with you.