EMBRACING CRAFT, CONNECTING CULTURE
工藝連心
Group Exhibition
Theme : Embracing Craft, Connecting Culture
Organiser : Crafts on Peel
Date : January 18 - April 5, 2025 | July 2 - October 11, 2025
Venue : Crafts on Peel, 11 Peel Street, Central, Hong Kong
Crafts on Peel “Embracing Craft, Connecting Culture” Exhibition
Crafts on Peel is a Hong Kong non-profit charitable foundation dedicated to revitalising, reinterpreting, and sustaining traditional craftsmanship. Through apprenticeship and intergenerational skill exchange, the foundation fosters collaboration between master artisans and emerging creators, nurturing the next generation while integrating traditional techniques into contemporary design.
This exhibition presents a rare collaboration between father and daughter—Lingnan penjing master Wong Chau Shing and contemporary artisan Kammy Wong—participating together as master-and-apprentice. The four exhibited works trace their intergenerational dialogue, shared memories, and creative exchange. The father imparts a lifetime of mastery and wisdom, while the daughter reinterprets the aged branches from his penjing practice through contemporary artistic language—extending the life of the material and reshaping the boundaries between craft and art.
Artwork 1: “Ancient Roots, Modern Bloom” - Named after Lingnan penjing techniques, this work uses aged red-fruit branches and draws inspiration from childhood memories of dressing dolls. The branches are coated with lacquered gold, blue-and-white porcelain motifs, and contemporary hues of pink and turquoise. Embedded magnets allow the sculpture to be reassembled, extended, and interacted with. It is a tactile, playful, and reconfigurable sculpture that embodies the evolving possibilities of traditional craft in the hands of a new generation.
Artwork 2: “Illuminated Heritage” - This work reflects the years the artist’s father spent growing alongside his bonsai. The vase represents a vessel of life, while reshaped branches gain renewed continuity. Under sunlight, the natural textures appear; under UV light, blue-and-white porcelain patterns emerge briefly—symbolising the reappearance, fading, and rebirth of culture through time. It is a dialogue across time, a play of light and memory within craft.
Artwork 3: “Hong Kong, Hong Kong” - Conceived as a “three-dimensional painting,” this work transforms a weathered tree stump reminiscent of an old fishing port. Jade, mother-of-pearl, pearls, and semi-precious stones are individually inlaid into the wood, symbolising Hong Kong’s multicultural vibrancy and its history as a meeting point of global cultures. The once-barren stump becomes a radiant cityscape, reflecting Hong Kong’s resilience and enduring allure.
Artwork 4: “ Serpentine Constellation” - Centred on a Murraya tree cultivated by the artist’s father for eighteen years, this work features gold particles scattered along the branches, with golden buds symbolising renewal. Eighteen strands of pearls echo the eighteen years of cultivation—like grains of sand transformed into pearls, or a serpentine dragon in motion, linking celestial constellations with treasures of the sea. The piece embodies cycles of life, the continuity of craft, and the profound, intangible bond between father and daughter.
集體展覽
主題：工藝連心
主辦單位：飄雅活藝
日期：2025年1月18日至4月5日 | 2025年7月2日至10月11日
地點：飄雅活藝 中環卑利街11號
飄雅活藝「工藝連心」展覽
飄雅活藝是香港一所致力振興、重新詮釋與延續傳統工藝的非牟利慈善基金會。透過學徒制與技術交流，基金會促進不同世代工藝師之間的合作，培育新一代工藝創作者，並將傳統技藝融入當代設計之中，延續工藝的生命力。
本次展覽以父女兼師徒的形式呈現——嶺南盆景大師黃就成與其女兒、當代工藝師黃錦敏首度攜手參與工藝交流計劃。展出四件作品，記錄兩代人之間的傳承、對話與共同創作。 父親以畢生累積的技藝與智慧傾囊相授；女兒則以藝術語彙重新演繹父親盆景中的枯枝朽木，讓植物生命在另一個維度延續，亦讓工藝與藝術之間的界線被重新想像。
作品一 : 《脫衣換錦》以嶺南盆景技法為名，作品取材自紅果老枝，並以童年替洋娃娃換衣裳的記憶為靈感。枝條表面覆以黑漆描金、青花瓷、粉色與青綠等象徵歷史與當代的「錦衣」，枝條內藏磁石，使作品可被重組、延展與參與。這是一件可觸、可玩、可重新定義的雕塑，象徵傳統技藝在新世代手中獲得新的可能。
作品二: 《歲月輪迴》作品記錄父親與盆景共同成長的歲月。花樽象徵生命的容器，經重新塑形的枝條獲得新的延續。枝條在陽光下呈現自然紋理，在紫外線下短暫浮現青花瓷圖案，象徵文化在時間流轉中的再現、消逝與重生。 這是一段跨越時間的對話，也是工藝記憶的光影。
作品三: 《香港•香港》以「立體的畫」為概念，將原貌似滄桑漁港的枯樹樁重新塑造。作品以翡翠、珍珠母貝、珍珠與半寶石逐顆鑲嵌於樹樁之上，象徵香港自開埠以來匯聚世界文化與人才的多元面貌。 枯木化為璀璨之城，呈現香港獨有的韌性與魅力。
作品四: 《轉化•不息》 以父親栽培十八年的九里香枯樹為核心，女兒以金色粒子散落於枝幹之間，金色芽點象徵古樹新芽的延續。懸掛的十八串珍珠呼應十八年栽培時光，如沙粒化為珍珠，亦如游龍凌空，連結天上星宿與水中珍寶的意象。 作品呈現生命的循環、工藝的延續，以及父女之間無形而深遠的連結。
Support : Surprise Projects | Shing Realm | Master Alley
Photograph: Courtesy Crafts on Peel | HODIMHK
支持：Surprise Projects | 成境 | 達人巷
照片：由 飄雅活藝 | 好掂 提供