Stone Cutter from Cheung Chau // 2001

at Fringe Club, Hong Kong, 2001

The exhibition stone cutter from Cheung Chau is a biographical portrait of my father in law. The quarry’s in which he cut stone I have used the idea of Scissors, Paper, Stone, reflecting the hard and precarious life he led with his family of nine children. The stonewall portraits are from the walls that he was commissioned to build and my Interpretation on the personal nature I found in them. Within this exhibition I made a little museum of a few items he left behind. Reflecting the impermanence of things in contrast to brand Hong Kong.

 

“Quarry 1 (scissors)” 2000, 160 x 130cm, rope, scissors, Paper, oil, wood

 

“Quarry 2 (Paper)” 2000. 150 x 180 cm rope, paper, oil, wood

“Quarry 3 (Stone)” 2000. 170 x 150 cm  Rope, plaster, Canvas, wood

Photograph 2000, Cheung family  with  8 stone wall portraits

 

“Cheung Family”, 2000. 59 x 54cm Rope, plaster, oil, wood

- 8 Stone wall portraits. 2000, 24 x 22cm Wood, paper,  Acrylic, ink -

“Ah Keung”

 

“Ah Ping”

 

“Ah Tai”

 “Sau Kan”

“Sau Suet”

“Ching Duk”

 

“This is not Cheung Choy Yau’s garden”, 2001 20 x 9 cm Paper, Ink, wood,  Plastic animals.

 

“Little museum for Mr Cheung Choi Yau”, 2001, 40 x 50cm. Metal box, Teeth, Spectacle’s, undergarments, Government bills, Light bulbs

“Robert’s process box” 2001, 40 x 50cm  Photos, drawings, rocks

 

 

William Tang’s fashion performance at the Fringe during the exhibition.