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There's no better way to mark the occasion than with good food — and lots of it. Here's our pick of the best Chinese New Year luxury puddings and treats.

With the start of the new lunar year just around the corner, stock up on the best desserts on offer. Turnip puddings (also called radish cakes) are traditional Chinese dim sum snacks, commonly served in Cantonese yum cha. Don't underestimate the small dish — in Cantonese, its name “leen goh” or “loh bak goh” is a homophone for “year higher”, ushering in new heights of prosperity for the coming year.

And we adore the Chinese New Year chuen hup, or traditional candy box, portion of the holiday. A bright red circular box set enticingly open upon coffee tables, filled with all kinds of sweet and savoury treats — it's a time-honoured custom, along with the coconut and turnip puddings. Each neat little segment houses a treat with an auspicious meaning of its own: lotus seeds are symbolic signs of improved fertility; lotus root, of love; tangerines and kumquats sound phonetically similar to "gold"; melon seeds to money and wealth. Chocolate coins, well, are coins.

To celebrate new beginnings and the new year, we've compiled the best Chinese New Year luxury puddings and treats for you and your loved ones to welcome the Year of the Tiger with.

The Best Chinese New Year Luxury Puddings and Treats

China Tang

China Tang's artisan Chinese New Year puddings are a modern take on the classic recipe, serving up two whole new flavours to welcome the Year of the Tiger: a turnip pudding with dried tiger prawn and local preserved meat and a handmade rice pudding with Taiwanese brown sugar and purple rice. Both are crafted by executive chef Menex Cheung and dim sum chef Mok Wing Kwai, and come in these stunning gift boxes decorated with China Tang’s signature Narcissus pattern — symbolizing grace and fortune. You can order the puddings and pick them up from the restaurant.

China Tang Landmark, Shop 411-413, 4/F, LANDMARK ATRIUM, 15 Queen’s Road Central, Central; +852 2522 2148

Duddell’s

Michelin-starred Duddell's selection of Chinese New Year puddings is a trio of classic favourite flavours: turnip (HK$348), taro (HK$348) and a "New Year" Pudding (HK$298). Pick up one, all three, or a gift set including the restaurant's signature X.O. Sauce. It's all packaged in a specially designed gift box created in collaboration with G.O.D. (Goods of Desire), with an ornate hand-drawn pattern typical of the embellishments found on Chinese teacups and soup bowls, a nod to its Hong Kong heritage. You can purchase at the restaurant or order online for delivery — find out more here.

We also love the look of the "Prosperous New Year Hamper", stocked with six traditional delicacies: a new year pudding; braised South African 5 head abalone with Duddell’s Abalone Sauce; a signature X.O. Sauce; homemade walnut cookies; Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, Yellow Label Brut, Champagne; and Fook Ming Tong Fuding Jasmine Mao Feng Tea.

Duddell’s, 1 Duddell Street, Central; +852 2525 9191

Godiva

To no one's surprise, it's all about the chocolates at Godiva. The Belgian chocolatier has drawn up a new motif for the Year of the Tiger, auspicious red and gold packaging printed with swimming koi and a tiger portrait set amongst crackling fireworks as a symbolic image of wealth. For the chocolates, the bijou creations feature the same lucky tiger motif over the surface and are packed in three distinct flavours: Raspberry Orange White chocolate, Pecan Praliné Milk chocolate and 85% Dark Ganache chocolate. Order before 31 January to enjoy special offers including free gifts, including a complimentary box of chocolates, or 10% off any purchase of HK$688. Find out more and order here.

Godiva, various locations across Hong Kong

Little Bao

The Best Chinese New Year Luxury Puddings and Treats

Little Bao is paying tribute to lucky colour red with a beetroot turnip cake, replacing turnip with fresh beetroot for a natural bold red cake. Ingredients include Sam Hing Lung rose wine sausages, Thai dried shrimp and natural seasoning for extra-healthy eating. You can also opt for the taro cake, made with Okinawan sweet potato and fresh taro for an extra soft and pillowy texture, and also to help boost the immune system. You can order them and more here.

Little Bao, 1-3 Shin Hing Street, Central; +852 6794 8414

Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel

Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel is celebrating the new lunar year with traditional Chinese recipes, serving up three classic puddings — a savoury Chinese Turnip Cake with Conpoy made from Chinese sausage and Jinhua ham; a sweet Coconut Pudding with Gold Leaf decorated with golden leaf glutinous rice and coconut milk; and a Water Chestnut Cake filled with crunchy water chestnut pieces. Bottles of homemade XO Chilli Sauce are also available to order. You can find out more here.

Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, No. 3 Canton Road, Harbour City, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon; +852 2118 7283

Ming Court

The Best Chinese New Year Luxury Puddings and Treats

Located inside Cordis, Michelin-starred Ming Court is offering an array of festive treats to ring in the Lunar New Year. Executive Chef Li Yuet Faat has prepared three auspicious puddings: a coconut Chinese New Year Pudding; an abalone, conpoy, and air-dried preserved meat and turnip pudding; and a red date and coconut pudding. Go for the deluxe Chinese New Year hamper, with a coconut pudding, homemade XO sauce, South African premium 12 head abalone and more. You can order it here.

Ming Court, Level 6, 555 Shanghai Street, Cordis, Mong Kok, Kowloon; +852 3552 3301 

Rosewood Hong Kong

The Best Chinese New Year Luxury Puddings and Treats

Rosewood Hong Kong is offering an array of Chinese New Year sets for gifting, featuring everything from traditional puddings to homemade XO sauce, festive candies, afternoon tea sets and more. Don't miss the well-wishes themed hampers: Harvest (HK$9,988), Fortune (HK$3,388), and Joy (HK$2,288) — for every CNY hamper purchased, Rosewood will donate 5% of the proceeds to support ImpactHK and their work to support those experiencing homelessness in Hong Kong. Find out more here.

We also love the clever Chinese New Year advent calendar from Rosewood — rather than counting down, you count on from the first day of the lunar calendar into the new Year of the Tiger. The whole set holds 15 special treats from the hotel, one for each day of the Chinese traditional holiday that lasts for two weeks. Tug open the jewel-toned drawers to discover a selection of delicious snacks from fortune cookies and egg rolls to XO sauce, palmiers, nougats, ginger candies and crunchy peanut bites. Much better than your usual melon seeds. You can order it here.

Rosewood Hong Kong, Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Rd, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, +852 3891 8732

Paul Lafayet

No crème brulée from Paul Lafayet this Chinese New Year. What you can get, though, is the patisserie's Lucky Tiger Gift Box with French illustrator Emilie Sarnel's hand drawing of two dancing tigers. The gift box set pulls open to reveal three different tiers featuring a whole afternoon experience: “Cookirons" — a cookie-based iteration of the brand's famous macaron; jasmine and hojicha tea tins with pots of honey in the second and a special fine bone china porcelain dish at the base to hold it all. The plate is specially tailored to the Year of the Tiger, featuring a sketch of two smiling tigers amongst a flowery meadow filled with macarons. You can order it online here.

Paul Lafayet, various locations across Hong Kong

Saicho

So this might not fit into traditional Chinese candy boxes, but it will still sit very prettily amongst red-adorned decor around the home. For the Year of the Tiger, Saicho has launched a very special creation of only 900 bottles — Eight Immortals — featuring the special Dan Cong Oolong tea grown atop Phoenix Mountain's Tian Liao village in Guangdong. From harvest to roast and rolling, the Dan Cong Oolong leaves are looked after by a qualified tea master. The result is a fragrant blend that adheres to the leaves' distinct complexity: bright notes of ginger mango and tangerine that rounds into a bitterness, then herbal, the likes of anise, fennel and tarragon. With Eight Immortals' earthy savouriness, Saicho recommends pairing with traditional Chinese New Year dishes including Chinese steamed fish and tang yang (glutinous rice dumplings). You can shop Saicho's Chinese New Year selection here.

Smith & Sinclair

Candy box fillings will be extra exciting with the addition of Smith & Sinclair treats, they're made after your favourite tipples! The UK-based brand crafts vegan-friendly gummies — or "Edible Cocktails" — from anything, including classic Gin & Tonic to special concoctions like Passionfruit Mojito. For the Year of the Tiger, the brand has designed a special red, tiger-printed sleeve as a symbol of good luck and fortune. These can be fitted over any of Smith & Sinclair's nine signature sets, from spirit-based "Gin Obsessed" or "Tequila Time" to themed "Love Box" or "Night In". You can order and find out more here.

Sugarfina

Sugarfina's candy cubes are a delight, both to give and receive. For this Chinese New Year, the confectioner has crafted a series of Candy Bento Boxes for easy gifting (and enjoying!) — with anything from a single cube to a lucky set of eight, featuring the brand's sweet creations in fun, auspicious names. There's the Lotus Flowers flavoured with lychee, Tangerine Bears, berried-flavoured Royal Roses and Golden Pearls. If not for the sweets within, get this set for the beautifully artistic packaging: a hand-crafted shadow box of red and gold decor motifs of lanterns, flowers and a temple to mark new beginnings.

Sugarfina, various locations across Hong Kong

The Peninsula Boutique & Café

One of the traditional elements of the Year of the Tiger is the big cat's head, symbolising strength and good health. Inspired by traditional Chinese "tiger head shoes" worn by children, the Peninsula Boutique & Café is celebrating the new year with plenty of tiger head-decorated gift sets — you can hang the box up as a Chinese New Year decoration! Pick up the festive "Robust Tiger Gift Set" (with cookies, candies, chocolate, tea and more), and any of the Chinese New Year puddings. You can find out more here.

The Peninsula Boutique & Café, The Peninsula Arcade, Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon; +852 2696 6969

Venchi

You may be spoilt for choice with Venchi's range of Chinese New Year gift boxes, but one thing's for sure: the range of lucky red and gold packaging all feature the Italian brand's signature 140-years, Piedmont Master Chocolatiers-approved sweets. Pick up The Chinese New Year Double Layer Hexagon Gift Box, an extensive collection of the brand's favourite chocolates: Cremini, Chocoviar, Truffles, and Dubledoni. Or consider the Chinese New Year Round Hamper, which features Venchi's latest creation Gianduja N.3 with Hazelnut, and is a close replica of the traditional chuen hup with the rounded exterior and organised sections within.

Venchi, various locations across Hong Kong

Yat Tung Heen

The Best Chinese New Year Luxury Puddings and Treats

Led by celebrated chef Tam Tung, Michelin-starred Yat Tung Heen is celebrating the new year by bringing back its highly sought-after turnip pudding, classic Chinese New Year pudding and the restaurant's signature gift box (which includes housemade premium XO sauce, candied walnuts and hand-selected Ginseng Oolong tea leaves). And to minimise the environmental impact of the gifting season, each pudding is thoughtfully packaged in a 100% recyclable eco-friendly paper box. You can find out more here.

Yat Tung Heen, Level B2, Eaton HK, 380 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, +852 2710 1093

Ying Jee Club

The Best Chinese New Year Luxury Puddings and Treats

Two Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant Ying Jee Club is serving the finest delectable pastry duo, a savoury turnip pudding with conpoy and air-dried meat and a sweet coconut milk pudding with red bean and Ceylon tea. Both are handcrafted daily by executive chef Siu Hin-Chi, who has amassed 20 Michelin stars over the past decade alone — rest assured, the preservative-free puddings epitomise the highest standard of Cantonese cuisine in both texture and flavour. You can order in-person at the restaurant, or by calling 2801 6882 or emailing reservation@yingjeeclub.hkfind out more here.

Ying Jee Club, Shop G05, 107 & 108, Nexxus Building, 41 Connaught Road Central; +852 2801 6882

(Hero image courtesy of Yat Tung Heen, featured image courtesy of Duddell's, image 1 courtesy of China Tang)

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Gone Too Soon: The New Book ‘Bright Stars’ by Art Historian Kate Bryan

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Kate Bryan's new book Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young exhumes some of the world’s great artists who shone briefly and faded just as fast. We delve into a fascinating tome, full of constant revelations.

Do talent and tragedy go hand in hand? As some of the world’s greatest and most-loved artists died painfully young, their narratives cut short by fate and circumstances, it certainly seems that way. Her second book on art and artists, the eloquent TV presenter Kate Bryan, often seen on Sky Arts’ hit shows Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year, has a new book, Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young, which examines that very subject.

“The compulsion to write came because I was fascinated to learn why so many of my favourite artists died young and that they had such a short time to create what they did,” Bryan tells me on the phone from London. “I work in the contemporary world, I work with artists all the time and I know how hard it is for them to receive the attention they deserve to win over the collectors and museums to understand them. To build any kind of career takes decades and decades and decades."

Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young by Kate Bryan
Bright Stars: Great Artists Who Died Too Young by Kate Bryan

"And I was so amazed these artists were able to create a space for themselves in art history, even though they only worked for 10 years or less. How on Earth do we know who they are? Trying to find that answer, I realised there were so many artists that get completely left out of art history. That’s bad if you die young, especially for artists who are women or people of colour. Writing this book started out as a personal intrigue and then it became a real mission to try and help bring these artists back to the attention they deserve.”

Vincent van Gogh and Jean-Michel Basquiat have been mythologised by their early deaths, a key element in their posthumous fame. But what about Pauline Boty? Charlotte Salomon? Noah Davis? Who? Well, exactly. Names wiped clean on the palimpsest by shocking events and tragedy.

“There are artists such as Charlotte Salomon whom I’d like the world to know more about,” says Bryan. “She was murdered by the Nazis when she was in her early twenties – she was five months pregnant. Her work is so powerful – hundreds of watercolours, with text with music instructions – what you should listen to when you look at it. It’s part theatre, part comic book. It’s dazzling, dazzling work and she made it in order to save her life."

German painter Paula Modersohn Becker, illustrated by Anna Higgie in Bright Star
German painter Paula Modersohn Becker, illustrated by Anna Higgie in Bright Star

“As a German-Jewish artist born in Berlin, it was never hidden. Although she was murdered, how she managed to get this work to safety before she died is incredible. She got it to her father, her father showed it to Otto Frank [the father of diarist Anne Frank] and it’s always been on permanent display since the Second World War – and yet no one knows who this woman is. It’s as if she’s been written out of history books, but the work never went away.”

In many ways Bryan is ensuring a legacy to those denied one: how do you secure a legacy for a woman who gives the world such a singularly important perspective in the 20th century about history, society, politics and art? “She suffered the cruellest of fates, and now [there’s] a double murder, as she’s been left out of our history.”

Picking up that same brush, Maria Balshaw, director of the Tate museums and galleries, says, “Bright Stars is a compelling reflection on the concept of legacy. Bryan’s wide-ranging assessment of artists we lost too soon proves that longevity in art is rewarded to the stars that burn the brightest, however fleeting their lives and careers.”

British painter Pauline Boty, illustrated by Anna Higgie
British painter Pauline Boty, illustrated by Anna Higgie in Bright Star

The chances of artists being famous seems so unlikely. Van Gogh was an artist for just 10 years and sold only a single work in his lifetime. His sister-in-law was his torchbearer, single-handedly saving all the work that now makes him among the most famous artists in the world.

“When you look at the work of Van Gogh,” says Bryan, “nearly all the work could have been destroyed, as the family had no money or space to keep them. Similarly, I look at the history of Gerda Taro, an amazing photojournalist working in the Spanish Civil War, who had an extraordinary insight into the conflict from a woman’s perspective. She photographed women and children during the war – all of those images, tens and thousands of film negatives were bundled away in a suitcase, given to the Mexican ambassador who smuggled them out of France during the war and took them to Mexico – but he dies without publishing them. Decades later, in 2009, his son finds them. These incredible, searing images. We nearly lost all of that – it’s just so easy for this stuff to slip through our fingers.”

Art Historian Kate Bryan
Kate Bryan (Photo: Gina Soden)

Many in Hong Kong’s art circles are familiar with Bryan. Not only was she a curator at a local gallery for years, but she’s been popping in and out of the city as Soho House’s head of collections since 2016. Before that, she earned an MPhil at the University of Hong Kong, deep-diving into art history, a skillset she brought to her extensive research for the book. There’s an urgency and exquisite clarity in Bryan’s voice – for her, Bright Stars was a 'passion project'.

“I started doing the research while I was in the hospital waiting for my daughter to be born,” she says. “Because I was stuck, I needed something to keep me sane and focus on research. It’s like a marathon runner, going from one thing to the next as I was working on shows for Sky Arts. I wrote most of it while I was on maternity leave. I started writing one day a week and it was just a lovely thing to have my baby girl Juno sitting on my lap while I wrote loads of the book. Two years later, here we are.”

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INFLUENCERS: In Conversation with Artist Marla Bendini

"My painting process is often a form of divination, a backdoor access to gain insight into a question or situation."

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Queenie Rosita Law: Powered by Passion

Queenie Rosita Law of Q Art Group

A staple in Hong Kong's art scene, Queenie Rosita Law has turned her eye in the last few years to discovering new artists in unexpected regions and growing her company, Q Art Group, to encompass all areas of the art business. She opens up about her activities and ambitions in a candid interview with Prestige.

A lot of people take pen to paper to express their thoughts through words, journaling self-reflections and daily entries to make sense of themselves and the world around them. Artists such as Queenie Rosita Law take to drawing.

“I grew up as a very shy child, and drawing and painting were the only ways for my parents to understand me,” says Law. “I used to be so quiet that they brought me to see a doctor to analyse my drawings… growing up I have always used art as a way to express.”

Now she’s in her mid-thirties, art is still her happiest medium. Although she’s no longer the shy child she once was, her creativity hasn’t waned and art continues to be her outlet through times of celebration, trauma and loss. But today, rather than focussing only on creating art that personifies her own struggles, she’s giving a platform to talented artists elsewhere, whose works speak to her but are yet to be discovered by the world.

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Law comes from one of Hong Kong’s wealthiest and most well-known families. Her grandfather, Law Ting- Pong, was a textile tycoon and the founder of the Bossini clothing brand, while her father, Raymond, is a property developer who’s involved in some of the city’s most prominent developments.

In 2015, she was taken from her home, an ordeal that she wrote about in a memoir she published in 2017. Today, six years on, the experience is all but a distant memory for her, a closed chapter that she’s not keen to dwell on. But in the past, she’s spoken candidly about how the experience has changed her and set her on a path of self-discovery, and she’s channeled it into her art, as well as used her new-found courage to turn her passion projects into real businesses and evolve her artistic pursuits to fit her new agenda.

A graduate of graphic design at Central Saint Martins, Law hadn’t envisioned an exact career path for herself while she was still a student. “When I was in school, art was purely what kept me up every day and night. I never thought much about my future – it was all about the present,” she says. “After graduation, I struggled to find my own career path and I experimented with a lot of creative jobs, but none of them seemed to fit my character or my ambition.”

Queenie Rosita Law wearing Loro Piana
OUTFIT LORO PIANA

The City Book was Law’s first venture into creating something for herself, an idea that formed in her mind in 2013 during a job break, having been in Paris for two years working at a photography agency. “I was walking down the street,” she says, “and wondering how a city inspired different artists to create their works. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of seeing a city through the eyes of different artists.”

Although the City Book is no longer printed, it was significant because the book “was the beginning of my discovery artists and their stories,” says Law. “The book was the starting point for my wish to share my own discovery of new artists with the world.”

Law has always loved travelling and exploring new places and things, but Paris, Rome and London did not interest her. Instead, it was Serbia and Poland that captured her heart. Back from her travels, her friends would revel in the stories she would tell about the people she met, the artworks that she saw, living vicariously through her to experience these faraway destinations that were not yet on their radar. Soon after, Law found herself in Budapest, Hungary.

The city opened her eyes to the vast and rare opportunities offered by Central and Eastern European (CEE) art. The art scene in Budapest was “vibrant with rich cultures”, but long overlooked and underappreciated.
“The CEE art ecosystems in these countries are still quite underdeveloped. Some have great institutions but in general there’s little documentation, publications or catalogues about the artists,” explains Law, who since 2017 has travelled extensively around the region to build her own personal collection, visit artist studios and discover hidden talents.

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Law wanted to emulate the late Peggy Guggenheim, the art patron she looked up to, who dared to work with artists who were nobodies at the beginning but later became major figures in the history and development of 20th-century art – people such as Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still and Max Ernst. “She saw in their works what others didn’t see,” says Law.

In CEE art, Law saw her opportunity. The huge sense of power and struggle in the artists’ works were what drew her in. At first, Law started by collecting works of younger artists – people of her own generation. But slowly, as she realised many artists from the older generation were still working, she shifted her attention towards them, too and delighted in the raw expression she saw in art created during the ’60s and ’70s.

“It’s so pure, because there wasn’t much commercial success in the market, as the whole of Eastern Europe was so closed off after the Second World War … but when you saw their art, you saw their struggle and how they kept going and creating. I really love that energy and I think it’s so powerful,” she says.

If CEE art was virtually unknown to Law up to this point, then so too was it uncharted territory for the rest of us. In each country she visited – Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic – everyone seemed focussed on their own art and participated in the local art scene only. An idea began to form in her head. It was a rare opportunity for her to develop an art space with an art collection, dedicated to showcasing the contemporary art from the whole CEE region and to the world. She grabbed the chance without hesitation.

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With a new vision in mind, Law formed Q Art Group, presenting a new and unique approach to art in that it serves as a central hub, a point of connection, for distinct yet complementary enterprises. Q Art Group encompasses Law’s ambitions of increasing exposure for emerging and often under-appreciated artists.

Q Contemporary is a contemporary art museum and a hub of cultural education programmes in Budapest; Double Q is a Hong Kong gallery that’s still in the works; and Q Studio is a continuation of her business in luxury branding and bespoke art for commercial clients. It’s a huge undertaking, but Law is unfazed.

“I love art in all its forms and I inherited my father’s passion for starting businesses, so I want to continue growing my business around my love for art,” she says. “I want to build an art ecosystem [of elements] that can co-exist with each other and complement each other, like building a group with different entities under the same umbrella that share a similar mission and identity.

“I want to adopt the same format for my art business. I want to build a group that can create art, exhibit art and sell art – art that speaks to you and is a part of your daily life.”

Queenie Rosita Law of Q Art Group
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Coming from a family of successful entrepreneurs, strong-minded individuals who are business-driven, has no doubt given Law tremendous foresight and courage. In fact, the biggest advice that her father gave her was to “just try, get out there, make the first move, and keep doing it again and again. If you fail, you’ll learn and you won’t make the same mistake again.”

Her family remains her biggest supporters. Indeed, Law says she not only never had any pressure from her parents to follow in any of their established businesses but was encouraged to forge her own path.

“My dad has been my number-one fan since day one. He pushes me and at the same time leaves me space and freedom to explore,” she says. Her first-ever drawing – of a supermarket, which she created as a child – still hangs in her parents’ bedroom.

My dad has been my number-one fan since day one. He pushes me and at the same time leaves me space and freedom to explore

Queenie Rosita Law

Within the Law family, business is never far from the dinner table. “Ninety percent of the conversation at dinner surrounds business, ideas and advice,” she says. And that’s perhaps why there’s probably no one who could have done what Law did in Budapest, which seemingly required a very precise combination of artistic foresight, business acumen and fearlessness, something in retrospect that she finds amusing.

“It’s kind of funny,” she says, “because looking back, it all started as a very naïve way of doing things. Naïve in the sense that I didn’t question things and I just did it. So when I first went to Budapest, it was really because of exploring the city. I was doing the City Book and I wanted to interview different artists over there. And then I met a lot of artists and I realised there’s a lot of artistic talent, but they don’t have opportunities.

“A year after that journey, I went back to Budapest and found and acquired this building. And it then took me another six months to a year travelling around the region to understand what really was missing. I had a vision and I went with it. I didn’t have any staff or friends or any connections in Budapest to get me there."

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Her hard work has definitely paid off. Earlier this year, she successfully brought CEE art to Hong Kong for the first time via a collaboration with K11 Art Foundation on Q Contemporary’s first pop-up exhibition, Tracing the Fragments, which also drew on discernible ties between CEE art and Chinese contemporary art.

The show was extremely well received. “Our exhibition was visited by 16,500 people over seven weeks, and it’s an exciting outcome despite the pandemic,” Law says. It’s a taste of what’s to come when Double Q Gallery, the final phase of Law’s plan to define her art empire, opens in Hong Kong at the end of the year.

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“Double Q Gallery will be powered by the discoveries of Q Contemporary,” says Law, who’s found her calling in representing the artists that she discovered during her travels, who had talent in abundance but until now, lacked opportunities.

“I started my company out of my own passion of creating my own art, and [my mission] has greatly evolved,” she says. “It used to be more about what I wanted to do, but now I’d consider how I’m going to do it effectively ... in five years, I want to continue to create this international platform that identifies, cultivates and promotes talented artists. I want to be a force that drives the discovery and appreciation of a whole new generation of artists."

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ART DIRECTION AND STYLING ANSON LAU
HAIR JEAN TONG
MAKE-UP AMY LEE
PHOTOGRAPHY ASSISTANTS ALSTON CHAN AND KELVIN SIM
STYLING ASSITANT EDDY CHU

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6 long-underrated artists get the spotlight

National Gallery's latest socially-conscious exhibition showcases artists who, despite their talents and innovations, are seldom featured.

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6 long-underrated artists get the spotlight

National Gallery

National Gallery's latest socially-conscious exhibition showcases artists who, despite their talents and innovations, are seldom featured.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

6 long-underrated artists get the spotlight

National Gallery

National Gallery's latest socially-conscious exhibition showcases artists who, despite their talents and innovations, are seldom featured.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

6 long-underrated artists get the spotlight

National Gallery

National Gallery's latest socially-conscious exhibition showcases artists who, despite their talents and innovations, are seldom featured.

For more stories like this, visit www.thepeakmagazine.com.sg.

Artist Cherin Sim talks about the art of marquage

Cherin Sim Marquage Art

Take luxury goods to a whole new level with personalised detailing.

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Art Pop: Top 3 Names Whose Progress Are Worth Following and Recognising

Be sure to discover the top 3 modern artists, whose accomplishments are not only of artistic value, but also interesting to watch.

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10 Creative Ground Breakers of Asia

It's only a matter of time before everyone gets to know the names of these 10 promising artists.

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