The Works
Percussionist Samuel Chan is currently a fellow with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra under the Orchestra Academy Hong Kong programme. As well as performing as a soloist, he is a member of the group, The Up:Strike Project. He’ll be joining us later. Before that though, we’re looking at a highly percussive form of dance: tap dance. Originating in the United States some 300 years ago, born of Irish and West African step dance traditions, it often accompanied jazz music, as dancers improvised to jazz music. And there are tap dance aficionados in Hong Kong too, where one dance group not only focuses on the art form but is also keen to inject new ideas into it.
At Flowers Gallery Hong Kong, "Roadkill", Stuart Pearson Wright’s first solo exhibition in Asia, presents several portraits painted in the past five years. In this new series of works, Wright blends human figures and animal traits, also incorporating everyday objects, with theatrical exaggeration and humour. “These paintings,” he says, “embrace the ridiculous because sometimes laughter feels like the only way out of despair.”
