Born and raised in Hong Kong, Chan spent five years in England after she obtained her first degree in fine arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Portraying human figures has always been her favourite form of creation — even as a child, Chan refused to draw anything else. She also likes to explore the potential of different materials and create unique textures for her paintings.

Strongly inspired by the challenges of life, Chan regards art as a healing process and the canvas as a tranquil retreat for herself. Her one-of-a-kind artistic expressions have netted her a number of awards, including the Gaylord Chan Painting Award, Cheung’s Creative Award and the Lui Lup-Fun Creative Award. She is now working as a part-time art teacher and freelance illustrator.

Artist Jaffa Lam was born in Fujian in 1973; she currently lives and works in Hong Kong, where she graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA, MFA and Dip Ed.

Lam specialises in creating installation pieces which are generally site-specific, and has a keen interest in mixed-media sculptures and woodcarving. Her work tends to include references to specific historical events, social themes and cultural or urban issues.

In 2007, she was the Asia Cultural Council grantee, which allowed her to travel widely and showcase her work on a broader scale. During this trip, she participated in the Urban Glass residency in New York and the Tree Museum residency in Toronto, initiating community-engaging public art projects and developing alternative types of art exchange.

Her installations have been shown internationally, in Hong Kong, Paris, Hamburg, New York, New Zealand, Singapore, Macau and Greater China.

Lam now teaches at the Hong Kong Art School.

Matthew Bailey obtained a bachelor’s degree in fine arts at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, where he worked with renowned voice coach Fran Bennett, speech coach Denise Woods and classical performer Mary Lou Rosato. It was also at CalArts that he developed his visual art techniques, holding several solo exhibitions, one of which was conceptualising the experience of fantastical space travel.

Bailey also participated in many underground arts exhibitions around Hollywood, and was offered the opportunity of working with comic book artist Joe Benitez and storyboarding several independent films in Los Angeles.

Returning to Hong Kong to obtain a Master’s degree in science in multimedia and entertainment technology at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Bailey curated the inaugural Asia Consciousness Festival last year, and also had the chance to present a new series of abstract artworks, Theory of Music.

One of the biggest projects Bailey has recently undertaken saw him multi-task as writer, film director, set designer, storyboard artist, location scout, props manager and actor for the upcoming video game Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch. Currently, he is also developing several short films, voicing new cartoons, designing posters for music concerts and brainstorming his independent T-shirt company.

Local artist Silas Fong was born in 1985 and graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts within the Hong Kong Baptist University in 2008.

Upon graduating, he held his first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, and subsequently went on to stage video installation and new media works across Asia and Europe.

Fong focuses on video and installation works which are based on human relationships. His pieces vary from lyrical, to critical, to conceptual, all showcasing an interest in the wheel of time and how it affects our perception of daily life.

His work Stolen Times for Sale received the Young Artist Award at the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennale in 2009, the gold award (interactive media category) at the 14th Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Awards; as well as being made part of the collection of Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art at the Macau Museum of Art.