Artist Statement:
Birds rely on their wings to fly to ever more distant destinations, and their shape and importance is comparable to the hands of a person. The work plays on the resemblance between hands and wings to show that, although humans cannot fly with their hands, they use them to build creations that let us fulfill even bigger dreams, taking the world forward.

Artist Bio:
Kum has participated in many exhibitions in Hong kong and overseas and received multiple local art awards. His works are exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, are collected by private collectors and have been auctioned at Sotheby's.

Artist Statement :
The "Dust Tree II" is made from recycled materials: the branches of the tree take their second life from old wood crates and the bronze creatures made by HK secondary school students. Base on the research of local popular tree "Acacia Confuse" & "Bombax Ceiba" for the creation development.

How is this society formed? What is my role in this society? Maybe this tree will let me share the understanding when I am sitting or standing there.

The creatures from the forest which the students made act as the metaphor of various people living in this city. This tree could be epitomized as a society more than just a recycled tree, everyone definitely could find him or herself from here. Good luck!

Artist Bio:
Lam Laam, Jaffa is a sculptor specializing in large scale site-specific works of mixed media sculptural installations, which are mainly made with recycled materials like crate wood, old furniture and recycled fabric.

In recent years, she has been involved in many public sculptural and community projects in Hong Kong and overseas, and her works often explore issues related to the local culture, history, society and current affairs.

Participated Schools Include :
Methodist College, St. Mary's Canossian College, Diocesan Girls' School, S.K.H. All Saints' Middle School, HK & KLN Chiu Chow Public Association Secondary School, The Methodist Lee Wai Lee College, CNEC Lee I Yao Memorial Secondary School CCC Mong Man Wai College, S.K.H. Lam Kau Mow Secondary School, St. Stephen's College, Christian Alliance SW Chan Memorial College, YMCA College of Careers

Artist Statement :
This sculpture shows its compression, being pulled and dissolved. Layers of distortion would generate strong visual impact to audiences and would keep them exploring the uncertainty from the artwork.

Artist Bio:
Zhang Hua was born in Yunnan in 1979 and graduated from Yunnan Arts University, Sculpture Profession of Art Department in 2006. He has participated in number of exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Artist Statement :
The sculpture strongly arouses various mysterious associations, guiding people into an unknown state of mysticism, legends, or variations. The artist intends to explore the ultimate significance of “distortion”/ “weirdness” through expressing the spiritual panic, impacts of unknown energy on man’s mind, and interlaced objective beings. The grotesque and gaudy appearance of the work is exactly derived from the artist’s deep investigation on the distorted spiritual state of contemporary people.

Artist Bio:
Huang Yan was born in Hunan in 1978 and graduated from China Central Academy Of Fine Arts sculpture Faculty in 2004. He has participated in number of exhibitions in Beijing and Songzhuang.

Artist Statement :
The artist forms her horse sculpture according to her intuition, creating works each of which are unique with its own personality, and the artwork displayed here is named after her own horse Captain. She seeks to convey at once the dynamic energy and the quiet grace of the horse in solid form, and hopes to inspire contemplation within our urban environment about horses' curiosity, empathy and understanding, qualities that are also very human.

Artist Bio:
Deborah Butterfield (born May 7, 1949) is an American sculptor and is known for her sculptures of horses made from found objects, like metal, and especially pieces of wood.

Artist Statement :
Zhang Hua tends to use complicated and expressive folds to shape the sculpture, in the form of compression and expansion. It gives a vivid picture of the emotions of the Sea, giving the audience a feeling of anxiety. The strong visual impact plays as if passers-by could actually hear the weeping of the Sea.

Artist Bio:
Zhang Hua was born in Yunnan in 1979 and graduated from Yunnan Arts University, Sculpture Profession of Art Department in 2006. He has participated in number of exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Artist Statement :
Oh's work is always playful. He likes to combine different media in quirky installation of objects staged as improvisations on a chaotic and indecipherable theme. The bowl of cold noodles reminds us the signature of traditional Korean cuisine being recognized in the global food culture, while the suspending noodles in still motion arouses our appetite but holds us to slow down for appreciation at the same time.

Artist Bio:
Oh Seung Yul graduated from Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts with an MFA in 2005, and has participated numerous exhibitions in New Zealand and also in ART HK 11. Oh won the Waikato National Art Award in 2005, received a CNZ grant in 2007 and was awarded the prestigious Harriet Friedlander New York Residency in 2010.

Artist Statement :
"A simple interest in the form of bones as such. Things in the body that cannot be seen with the eyes. A definite form fluctuates. Because they look like a new structure or are not seen, they may be the bones of a new animal."

Artist Bio:
Teppei Kaneuji was born in Kyoto and completed Master course in Sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts. He has been participating in many exhibitions in Japan, Korea, Australia, Shanghai and Taiwan. His works are collected by various museums in Japan.

Artist Statement :
Eliasson emphasizes the tricks of light, scale and refraction. This lamp seems to be much smaller than his other artworks, but is exquisite enough, reflecting the environment with its mirror on the surface. He is brilliant in making the light tangible, and this dazzling lamp creates multiple and dimensional spaces through specular reflections.

Artist Bio:
Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in 1967, and studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. He has engaged in various projects in public space, including The New York City Waterfalls, commissioned by Public Art Fund in 2008. He has also participated in countless exhibitions over the world. He now lives and works in Berlin.

Artist Statement :
Using toasts as canvas and fire guns as paint brushes, the art piece was jointly created by the famous “Toast Art Picasso” Maurice Bennett from New Zealand and Hong Kong People. They successfully made the world’s largest toast art mosaic with 6,000 slices of toast.

Artist Bio:
The mosaic portraits were inspired from cubism of Picasso and made use of differently baked and unsold bread. Up till now, Maurice Bennett had finished over 1000 pieces of toast art which stunned the art circle time after time.