I’ve been a little quiet lately, giving myself the chance to finally update my website — something I haven’t properly touched since 2019. Very slack of me… terribly embarrassed 🙈
But while doing this, it has also given me the chance to tidy up and archive my past projects properly. As a very messy person with things everywhere, it’s actually been such a great process to revisit old works and memories.
Along the way, I came across some old drawings from my Honours degree in Drawing — memories of experimenting with red, string, objects, and space, more than simply holding a pencil, brush, paint, or paper. It was such a beautiful time of play and discovery.
And in many ways, I realise I’m still drawing with string, still working with red, still engaging with paper and space.
It’s come a long way…
Also, a big shout out to my dear friend Louise @llemorga for helping me update my website 💻🙏 ❤️
Please feel free to visit my updated website ✨Still slowly updating and organising everything… but it’s finally happening 🙈✌️
Last few days! Grab a free PAY YOUR ARTISTS tote bag with a new or renewed NAVA Premium Plus and Premium (full-year) Membership. Offer ends 30 April. Pictured: the lovely Pamela Leung @instapamit with their new tote.
ID: Pamela smiles as they hold up a black tote bag with the words "PAY YOUR ARTISTS," seated in front of a teal wall with vintage posters and artwork.
Very pleased to announce that unseamed has been selected for the Burwood Art Prize with @burwoodcouncil :)
Go check it out when it’s on. More to come regarding the opening night :)
Finally, “Songs That Lost Their Voice” 「失語之歌」 is coming to an end.
Thank you to everyone who came to the opening, and not only visited, but truly participated in the work. Your presence and support have meant so much to me.
This is one of those rare works that leaves me feeling proud, happy, and content. What a blessing, and a beautiful way to begin the Year of the 🐎🧧❤️
I sang — but not with my voice.
This documentary records the only performance created for “Songs That Lost Their Voice”,
presented on the opening night of “Echoes of The Firecracker”.
The exhibition explores how sound shapes ritual, identity, and belonging across cultures.
In this installation, I found myself drawn to the sounds of language —
especially Cantonese, carrying the earliest memories of home.
Working on this piece allowed me to return to Lunar New Year memories from back home —
the only time each year when my mum would make me new clothes,
and my dad would buy me a new pair of shoes.
The house was never quiet:
the constant ringing of the doorbell, people coming and going,
the busy sounds of the kitchen preparing festive food,
laughter filling every corner,
television music playing alongside mahjong, card games,
and children running endlessly through the rooms.
When creating a work about sound during such a festive time,
I found myself inevitably bringing these personal memories into the installation.
It is about home — the sounds I miss,
and also about what has happened to my homeland,
and how a voice can slowly be lost.
People may still appear joyful, still singing,
but one wonders whether it is truly their own voice.
有啲聲音，由細聽到大。
以為會一直都喺度。
These are the final two days of Songs That Lost Their Voice 《失語之歌》 —
closing 5pm Sunday, 1 March.
Come sing along 🎧🎤 while the voice is still here.
❤️
@willoughbyvisualarts
#echoesofthefirecracker
Last days of “Songs That Lost Their Voice” 《失語之歌》— closing 5pm Sunday, 1 March.
Song no. 4
願榮光歸香港
Glory to Hong Kong
Music: Thomas dgx yhl | Lyrics: Anonymous / Netizens, 2019
🎧 你試過喺商場、街頭，一齊唱歌嘅感覺嗎？
誕生於 2019 年反修例運動期間，呢首歌唔屬於某一個人，而係由無數聲音慢慢唱出嚟。
歌詞承載住悲傷、堅持，以及對自由同尊嚴嘅渴望。人們曾經喺商場、公共空間，一齊合唱。
Created during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Movement, the song became an unofficial anthem, a shared voice carried through collective singing in public spaces.
2024 年，香港法院以「煽動意圖」為由禁止傳播，令呢首歌慢慢被消音，成為一首高度敏感嘅作品。
Put on your headphones 🎧 and pick up the 🎤 sing along.
有啲聲音會消失，有啲，仍然留喺記憶之中。
Some voices disappear.
Some remain in memory. 👌🙏🧧
@willoughbyvisualarts
#echoesofthefirecracker
Final week of “Songs That Lost Their Voice” 《失語之歌》 — the exhibition ends Sunday, 1 March.
Song no. 2 on the list —
‘Queen Road East’ 「皇后大道東」 🧧
2. 皇后大道東
Queen’s Road East
Lo Ta-yu（羅大佑, 1991）
《皇后大道東》係廣東流行音樂史上最具代表性嘅政治諷刺歌曲之一。歌詞用幽默同隱喻描寫九十年代初香港人對 1997 回歸前途未卜嘅焦慮，例如「貴族朋友」指英女皇、「偉大同志」指中國共產黨領導，「馬照跑」指鄧小平承諾回歸後生活制度不變。
One of the most iconic political satires in Cantopop history. Using humour and coded metaphors, the song reflects the anxiety of Hong Kong people in the early 1990s before the 1997 handover — “Noble Friend” (Queen Elizabeth II), “Great Comrade” (Chinese Communist leadership), and “horses will still run” (Deng Xiaoping’s promise of no change to daily life).
歌詞亦暗示當年大量移民潮。由於政治敏感性，歌曲曾多次喺中國被禁播。
The lyrics also allude to mass emigration in the early 1990s. Because of its political sensitivity, the song has been banned in Mainland China multiple times.
Put your headphones on, pick up the 🎤, and sing along 👌🙏🧧
@willoughbyvisualarts
#echoesofthefirecracker
Feeling very grateful to journalist Winnie Wong from SBS Cantonese Broadcast for joining the opening of “Echoes of The Firecracker” and interviewing me about my work “Songs That Lost Their Voice” 「無語之歌」.
It was such a meaningful conversation, and I truly appreciate the care and insight she brought in sharing the story behind the work. The exhibition runs until 1 March, and I’ll be around Sunday morning 22 February — would love to see you there, come say hi! 🤝🙌🧧
@sbs_cantonese@winniedollwong@willoughbyvisualarts
Happy New Year of the Horse 🔥🐎
Wishing you all good health 健康, happiness 快樂, peace 平安, and contentment 幸福 🍀🧧
This year, I found myself buying flowers for the New Year… something I haven’t done for a long time. Perhaps it’s a quiet sign that I’m allowing myself to hope, to expect, and to welcome what is coming. 🍀♥️
“Echoes of the Firecrackers”
An exhibition curated by Willoughby City Council to celebrate the Year of the Fire Horse 🔥🐎
The opening last Thursday night was such a joyful way to welcome the New Year! Honesity, it couldn’t have felt more right.
I was really happy with my performance on the night, sharing our New Year customs, bringing the festive spirit into the space, and giving out the best wishes I wrote and painted—good health 健康, peace 平安, contentment 幸福, and happiness 快樂 🧧🧧🧧🧧
Thank you to everyone who was there celebrating with us—it meant a lot ♥️
The exhibition runs until 1 March. Hope to see some of you there, singing along with my work “Songs That Lost Their Voices” 🎤🎶
@willoughbyvisualarts@willoughbycity@chatswood_nsw
📸Simon Yu 🙏🧧
“Songs That Lost Their Voice” is an interactive installation using karaoke and Cantonese pop to reflect on language loss, silenced voices, and diasporic experience.
The work considers how voices can be softened, marginalised, or silenced by social and political structures.
「失語之歌」透過卡拉 OK 呢種大眾文化形式，探討廣東話喺社會結構變遷中，聲音係點樣被邊緣化甚至逐漸消音。
裝置將離散經驗注入熟悉嘅旋律，喺呢個「失語」嘅空間入面，引發觀眾對文化流失同集體沉默嘅深層反思。
It’s staring tomorrow at Art Space on The Concourse. A Lunar New Year exhibition “Echoes of the Firecracker” curated by Willoughby Council @willoughbyvisualarts@willoughbycity .
I’m very excited to be part of it, what a way to start Year of The Horse 🔥🐎 🧧
Installation for “Echoes of the Fire Crackers” has officially begun!
So grateful for the best install team ever🙌
Very excited to be working on “Songs That Lost Their Voice”, a participatory installation, and it’s all coming together fast.
The exhibition opens this Thursday night, in just two days 🧧
Welcoming the Year of the Fire Horse 🐎🔥
Can’t wait to share this with you all ❤️♥️
@willoughbyvisualarts@willoughbycity
