10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present Hong Kong artist Lewis Lee in a solo exhibition titled “The Tale of Beas River” at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery. The exhibition consists of a new series of paintings and an installation of relics to commemorate the historical legacy of the Hong Kong-China borderland that runs along the Beas River.

Lewis Lee is an artist who is tied to the geographical stories of land and its connected meanings. He grew up in Hong Kong’s Sheung Shui area near the Hong Kong–Mainland China border. He grew up watching the buildings of the now megapolis of Shenzhen emerge out of the landscape viewed from the rural borderlands on the Hong Kong side. Like many Hong Kongers, he is the son of a mainland Chinese immigrant. His father arrived in 1980 crossing through the barbed wire at Ta Kwu Ling, the starting point of his life thereafter. Lee likes to roam the hinterlands of Hong Kong’s border area reimagining the landscapes as a part of Hong Kong history and how the idea of being a “Hong Konger” emerged after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China when the British colonial government established a border prohibited area in 1951, creating a barrier similar to the Berlin Wall. Formally isolating the people of both regions with a serpentine river serves as a natural barrier, separating opposing ideologies in the air. The concept of "Hong Konger" began to take shape from that moment.

Opening Reception: 6 February, 5-8pm

Gallery address: G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is honoured to the debut solo exhibition in Hong Kong of Mongolian artist ANUnaran J. Solo Exhibition “Inner Nature – Return to Innocence” in Hong Kong from 15 November 2024 to 11 January 2025.

ANUnaran Jargalsaikhan, is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist. Living and working in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Her diverse practice and use of materials and performance are deeply connected to nature. In this exhibition at 10 Chancery Lane Gallery we will see the diversity of her practice which includes a unique mix of techniques that are embroidered, sewed, appliquéd and as well as, photo-based work combining various materials such as fabric, pens, thread, acrylic, oil and printing.

In a poignant reflection on the intricate relationship between humanity and nature, ANUnaran J. delves deep into the essence of our inner nature. She shares, "We feel things both externally and internally. Our relationship with nature resides within us, as does Mother Nature herself." Her introspective musings underscore the crucial yet fading connections we share with the natural world.

Artist’s Talk and Opening Reception: Saturday, 16 November

Artist’s Talk: 3 pm, Reception: 4 - 6 pm

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present the 13th edition of HKFOREWORD in 2024, which introduces new art from Hong Kong through its latest art graduates. This year we have selected 14 artists from 4 Hong Kong universities, 12 graduates, and 2 who are still studying. The exhibition includes painting, video, installation, ceramic, ink drawing, sculpture, animation and photography. The HKFOREWORD 2024 exhibition offers a new perspective on the artistic development in Hong Kong. It provides insight into the preoccupations and inspirations that are driving the work of local artists.

We are honored to present:

Cody Cheng Cheuk Wang, Cecilia Chiang, Yuko Fukuba Johnsson, Thomas Fung Yee Tin, Rina He Mingyi, Ernest Ho Wing Wa, Inkgo Lam, Ellis Lau, Jennifer Lee, Eilly Li Hoi Yee,
Elizabeth Li Shan Shan, Caleb Wong Wan Hang, Alice Yeung, Valerie Ying

Opening reception: Thursday, 19 September, 5pm – 8pm

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present French artist, Laurent Martin Lo's exhibition, In the Balance, with his series of lyrical mobile sculptures made in bamboo.  

Through years of studying bamboo, Lo has come to understand its multitude of possibilities. His creativity is born out of skill and understanding of the material. His artistic palette is within the physical and sensorial virtues of bamboo – its sophisticated organic structure, energy, and spirituality. Establishing an intimate dialogue with bamboo, Lo experiments with its flexibility, resistance, density, lightness, mathematics, and poetry, a language that allows him to combine both tension and compression, creating sculptures based on movement and balance. Compositions that take over the space and establish a dialogue, where the space around the piece also becomes another defining element of the piece itself.

With his subtle, yet strong gestures, tensions, and counterweights, the artist speaks of a fragile harmony that is achieved using opposites: flexibility and strength, fullness and void, light and shadow, movement and quietness, Lo invites the spectators to begin a personal dialogue with themselves looking for calm, serenity, and the balance in nature. 

Opening reception: 23.05, 6-8pm

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of Franco-Chinese master sculptor Wang Keping during Art Basel Hong Kong. The exhibition runs from March 21—May 11, to also coincide with The French May and the 60-year celebration of France and China’s cultural collaboration. The exhibition will feature a selection of his most significant works and celebrate his more than 45 years of sculpture making.

Sculptor Wang Keping finds the essence or vitality of his creations residing within the very wood he works with. After prolonged observation of its knots and branches, he is inspired to uncover what lies within. His journey as a wood sculptor began four decades ago, when he was a spirited young individual in China, fighting alongside his comrades for the freedom to express contemporary art. Today, he stands as a master, a wise sage, and a philosopher, finding everything he needs within the confines of his garden.

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present a group exhibition entitled Threads of Connection featuring 5 artists whose works unveil hidden meanings and evoke the idea of exploring connections, uncovering hidden meanings and delving beneath the surface to discover the intricate relationships and symbolism with the exhibition’s content. The artists Chi Qun, Dinh Q. Lê, Gu Benchi, Huang Rui and Zhang Xuerui have practices that entwine the interconnectedness of ideas where disparate elements can be linked together by hidden meanings. Deeper meanings can be unravelled revealing layers of significance in the various works.

Opening reception: Thursay, 25 January, 5-8 pm

Gallery address: G/F, 10 bChancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present the inaugural exhibition in Hong Kong of artist “fuchsia.” Entitled, “Otherworlds” artist fuchsia will exhibit a series of paintings on canvas and on paper and will paint murals on the walls of the gallery. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, where she grew up from the ages of 2 to 12.

fuchsia is a mixed-media artist currently in residency at Sarabande (the Alexander McQueen Foundation) in London. Working primarily with watercolour and oils, she explores concepts of good and evil through carefully selected colour palettes and spiritual iconography. fuchsia paints angels and underwater creatures in dream-like landscapes and fervently believes in the power of these celestial beings. In her eyes, angels represent the deepest state of our core as humans - love, vulnerability and innocence - all things we regrettably gradually let go of when entering adulthood. her paintings are overflowing with symbols of beauty and chaos, and aim to highlight certain conflicting moral forces we face in today’s complex world, namely issues on climate change which seem to preoccupy the minds of her angels.

Gallery address: G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, SoHo, Central

10 Chancery Lane is proud to present new sculptures by Hong Kong-Australian artist Anton Poon from October 5 - November 9, 2023. This new series of works made of painted steel consist of interconnected and geometrical patterns with complex relationships of form that investigate ideas surrounding human interaction and relationships, with a specific focus on the contrasting concepts of distance and intimacy, emotions and connections, and complexity and delicacy. If one module were to collapse, everything would tumble—a commentary on the significance of support and collaboration in achieving a greater good within modern society.

Opening reception: Thursday, 5 October, 5-8pm

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present the twelfth edition of HKFOREWORD 2023, which introduces new art from Hong Kong through its latest art graduates. This year we have selected 10 artists from 3 Hong Kong universities. The exhibition includes painting, video, installation, and a stop motion animation video. The HKFOREWORD exhibition brings a fresh outlook on Hong Kong’s art development and offers insight into the preoccupations and inspirations driving their work.

The year of 2023 has been the official end of the Covid restrictions in Hong Kong that liberated this group of artists during their last year as students to get them back into the physical classroom. However, it came late, thus, they have had a challenging time during their studies. Currently in the post pandemic art world, there does seem to be more colour, frivolity and spontaneity in the works. Many of the artists of this generation have felt the changing political environment, with friends having been arrested for their views and a definite feeling of uncertainty moving forward. We did see some works among the graduates that were overtly political but less than the previous two years. There are some cryptic messages well hidden within some of the works. Overall, this year felt as if they were breaking free from the heaviness of the past 3 years of the Covid pandemic and the protests that preceded it.

A glimpse into the souls of our youth is a gift for all to cherish. HKFOREWORD23 offers a moment in time to understand through art the thoughts and concerns of Hong Kong artists today. Art is a lasting material for society to embrace as a collective journey. May we take a moment to reflect on their musings and embrace the creative process of our time.

We are honored to present:

Karen Chan
Chi Tin Sui
Wing Chiu
Lee Kam Ching, Lewis
Pyrce Luk

Mak Yung Ka
Shum Hok Kiu
Christine Tsang
Ella Wong
Yoyo Yu

Opening reception: Thursday, 24 August 2023, 5 – 8pm

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present FACES OF GAIA, featuring four women artists Zoë Marden, Christine Nguyen, Katrina Leigh Mendoza Raimann and Jessica Zoob.

Coinciding with the UN World Ocean’s Day June 8th, the exhibition brings together four women artists whose works suggest the many faces of Gaia, Earth Goddess of Greek mythology. and ancestral mother of all life. Each of the selected artists have practices linked closely to their experiences of nature and its rhythms, incorporating individual sensibilities to reflect the many faces of Gaia.

The exhibition highlights Gaia as a complex intertwining of phenomena that as both maker and destroyer creates the harmony of life. Further explained in scientific circles, the Gaia hypothesis posits that Earth, and its biological systems, behave as a huge single entity. This entity has closely controlled self-regulatory negative feedback loops that keep the conditions on the planet within boundaries that are favorable to life. ‘The Faces of Gaia’ proposes the transformative nature of the Earth Goddess in all her strength to bring restorative balance to the whole.

The exhibition opens on June 8, UN World Ocean’s Day 2023, adding its voice to calls from around the world to protect the earth. Furthermore 10 Chancery Lane will continue its long term support of Oceanic Global, an NGO committed to protecting the Ocean, by donating a portion of the proceeds from the exhibition.

Huang Rui is one of China’s most highly regarded artists and one of the pivotal protagonists of the first non-conformist art groups to emerge from China in 1979 - The Stars (Xing Xing 星星) Art Group. Last year, Huang Rui was deeply roused by the war in the Ukraine and has created a new series of works for peace now exhibiting at the Polish Embassy in Beijing. Huang Rui’s latest series of paintings reflect on “Absence” and expand his experiments of space that has been ongoing for 40 years. Huang Rui has exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York, The M+ in Hong Kong, UCCA Beijing, Jupiter Museum Shenzhen and later this year at the Long Museum in Shanghai.

Reception and Refreshments 2 - 5 pm
Artist Presentation 3:30 pm

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present “Fire Rainbows” a new series of paintings by Pan Jian. The Pandemic changed the way that Pan Jian viewed painting. He started to study the way Japanese ukiyo- e contrasting colour palettes held a work together and then began to adopt colours from nature and reality and turned them into his own reality with his own colours. The colours come from the real world, yet the result is unreal. This new series breaks open his obsession with the forest and we feel that he is driven towards abstraction with new vibrant and vivid palettes that explode into “Fire Rainbows,” which is an actual unique alignment of forces in the atmosphere. Technically called a circumhorizontal arc, fire rainbows are caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds.

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present “SPACIOUS” a sculpture exhibition. Featuring 15 artists from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Spain, France, America. The word spacious radiates openness and vastness which is the premise of gathering these works together. Put together partly through the private collection of gallery owner Katie de Tilly and artists represented by the gallery, the exhibition invites viewers to contemplate how this diverse group of artists negotiate the 3D of spatial elements into their individual story telling in the time the works were made. SPACIOUS has no time but hopes to show moments of enquiry among the artists, which have set their marks and carried them into expansive timelessness. The materiality of the sculptures carry soul with them and put forward an energy each of their own that can truly be felt.

Participating artists: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Wang Keping, Huang Rui, Bui Cong Khanh, The Propeller Group, Frog King, Htein Lin, Laurent Martin "Lo", Anton Poon, Koshimizu Susumu, Robert Rauschenberg, Nobuo Sekine, Kishio Suga, Adejoke Tugbiyele, Wang Du

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present our 11th edition of HKFOREWORD22, which hosts a selection of new art from Hong Kong from recent university art graduates. This has been a challenging 2nd year with Covid-19 and these art students have graduated with resilience in what has become a new norm the world over. Here we can see them shine.

We are honoured to present:

Ivan Chan
Lazarus Chan
Fong Pong Yuet
Kei Wing
Lulu
Matthew So Chun Him
Charlotte Wong
Kenneth Wong
Tian Zhang
Chan King Long Ken
Danica
Cami Hui
Koo Kam Muk
Jing Pang
Wan Lok Yiu Kelly
Emme Wong
Kaio Wu

Since 2012, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery is devoted to offer a first gallery exhibition to emerging Hong Kong artists and support the local artist’s community with the annual HKFOREWORD22 exhibition. The exhibition encourages fresh art graduates to pursue their career as a practicing artist and provide them the opportunity to connect with both the local and international art community.

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present 31 Women Artists – Hong Kong, curated by Caroline Ha Thuc. 

31 Women Exhibition was a 1943 exhibition organized by Peggy Guggenheim in her new gallery, Art of this Century, in New York City. One of the first exhibitions dedicated to the works of women, the show was a breakthrough. 31 Women Artists – Hong Kong Exhibition is not intended to be a feminist exhibition: ideally, there would be no need for all-women exhibitions, yet it seems meaningful today to acknowledge the practice of women Hong Kong artists and to show the extraordinary vitality of their works. Mixing different generations of artists working in diverse contexts and engaged in various practices, this 2022 exhibition aims above all at celebrating the right to be truly oneself.

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery opened its doors in 2001 with its inaugural exhibition of sculptor Wang Keping. Twenty years on the gallery presents a story telling of art and its evolution during two decades in Hong Kong, China, Southeast Asia and beyond. The exhibition will allow a view on the galleries anchors as well as its visions for the future. The exhibition will present more than 37 artists to include artists of all generations and the world over. The gallery has been specially constructed with a new layout of walls so visitors can walk through the exhibition journeying the different artists that the gallery is proud to work with.
Katie de Tilly started 10 Chancery Lane Gallery when art in China was beginning to gain international attention and the development of contemporary art throughout the region was going through a pivotal moment. She saw what an exciting opportunity it was to gather the voices of these artists in Hong Kong and showcase them as well abroad. Over the years she organized more than 200 exhibitions including art fairs in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Gwanju, Taipei, Singapore, Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, Miami, London, Madrid, Paris, Brussels, Sydney and Melbourne.

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present HKFOREWORD21, showcasing our selection of works by talented young artists in Hong Kong. HKFOREWORD was launched in 2012 with the aim to support the development of contemporary art in the city. Artists in the show are recent Bachelor and Master graduates from the local art institutions.

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

I have created a body of work called This Moment and it is about the extraordinary pivotal time we find ourselves in.

This collection is about the precarious state of our planet, how passionate I am about it, how desperately I care for it, how fragile I understand it to be and how hopeful I am that with enough support and knowledge and people becoming less ignorant about what they are doing, by making good choices, by being willing to change and embrace the wild, we can actually protect and save our world and make it into the wonderful place it should be.

I hope to encourage people to stop and gaze, to be reminded of the beauty of nature and to be inspired to protect it.

Gallery address: G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present Hong Kong born, Australian artist John Young in Spectrumfigures from April 23rd-May 29, 2021.

This Spring in Hong Kong and during Art Basel HK 2021, John Young will be exhibiting a group of abstract paintings entitled Spectumfigures, as well as a small group of works he created thirteen years ago — 1967 Dispersion; a recollection of the 1967 riots in Hong Kong, the time he departed the then British colony.

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to present Pan Jian, Lightening’s Edge, a new series of paintings. The exhibition opens on March 5 . Known for his midnight blue landscape night scenes, Pan Jian has emerged into the light in this new series of tree scapes that burst with colour.

During this special year of the 2020 pandemic, Pan Jian expresses how the temporary lock- down allowed him to confront his weaknesses and transform his process. “While reflecting on my own creation, I realized that my previous night landscape paintings seemed too subjective and willful. Therefore, in my new series, Lightning’s Edge, I focus on using complex acrylic and oil colors as the basis of my expression, while combining various drawing methods to form a ‘visual noise.’ I want to create a dialogue that focuses on the relationship and richness of the material to make an absolute indulging visual effect."

10 Chancery Lane Gallery is proud to announce exclusive representation in the Asia-Pacific of bamboo sculptor Laurent Martin “Lo” with a solo exhibition in Hong Kong entitled “Crossing the Void” and as well as at Art Basel Spotlight art fair.

Laurent Martin “Lo” invites us into the world of bamboo. His lyrical mobile sculptures are like paintings in the air and his standing works are a concurrence of forces that create an impossibly delicate equilibrium. The forces of the wind sway the works to and fro and create shadows that dance upon the walls.
In this exhibition the gallery will present twelve new works, 7 mobiles and 5 standing works. The large Bamboo Soul hangs at 380 cm like a single stroke of curved simplicity. Another hanging work Smoke is a 2-meter swirl of wistful waves and curls funneling up into the sky. Crossing the Void, stands as a double elliptical window seesawing back and forth as if casting a fishing line. Gallery director Katie de Tilly states, “Lo’s work embraces the essence of all life as one. We experience his works through feeling rather than thinking. He is a truly committed artist who explores the depths of the natural material of bamboo with a skill that is both intuitive and mastered. Throughout the world craftsman work wonders with bamboo and “Lo” has elevated it to a contemporary art form of the highest distinction. And we feel his passion.”

Gallery address: 10 Chancery Lane, Central

In this momentous year of 2020, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery is pleased to present HKFOREWORD20, an annual exhibition of curated artworks from 10 of Hong Kong’s most exciting recent art graduates. Now in its ninth year, the HKFOREWORD series, organized by 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, aims to actively promote a new generation of contemporary artists in Hong Kong from local and international universities offering art degree programs. Artists in the show are recent Bachelor’s or Master’s degree graduates from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, City University-School of Creative Media, Hong Kong Art School, The Academy of Visual Arts at the Hong Kong Baptist University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Hong Kong and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Gallery address: G/F, 10 Chancery Lane, SoHo, Central