Sun Chatroom
The event series "Sun Chatroom" aims to promote artistic exchange by organising lectures, dialogues, and panel discussions, allowing visitors to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the diverse aspects of art.
Printmaking from North to South
In conjunction with the "Profound Impressions: The Art of Liu Chunjie's Original Plates and Prints" exhibition, Sun Museum will host a roundtable discussion on "Printmaking from North to South," on Sunday, 22 March, from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The event specially invites exhibiting artist Mr. Liu Chunjie, Chairperson of Art Horizon Printmaking Workshop Ms. Liu Siu Jane, Hong Kong artist Mr. Chung Tai Fu, Former Chairperson of Graphics Society Ms. Lui Wai Chu Judith, Programme Director of Print Art Contemporary and Hong Kong Open Printshop Ms. Yung Sau Mui, and Sun Refresh scheme artist Mr. Xie Chengxuan to engage in a free-flowing discussion on the art of printmaking.
Exhibiting Artist: Liu Chunjie
Panellists: Liu Siu Jane, Chung Tai Fu, Lui Wai Chu Judith, Yung Sau Mui, Xie Chengxuan
Moderator: Lesley F.H. Lau (Director, Sun Museum)
Language: Cantonese and Putonghua
Admission is free
Deconstruct x Reconstruct: Experimental Drawing Course
Sun Museum will hold an experimental painting course in May 2026. This event features artist Mr. Xie Chengxuan from the Sun Refresh scheme. The course consists of three 1.5-hour sessions. Xie will guide participants through a disruptive creative process that encourages letting go of traditional painting conventions and producing distinctive, content-rich artwork.
Dates: 9, 16, 23 May 2026 (Saturdays)
Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 NN
Location: Sun Museum Café
Fee: HKD 980 (materials and tools included)
Language: Cantonese or Putonghua
Lesson 1 | Acrylic image transfer: Context distortion and deconstruction
By teaching acrylic image transfer techniques, we try to sort out what “images” mean to us, the message behind them, and how they were being seen. The purpose of this workshop is to rethink the meaning of motifs, how we are going to reshape and turn them into artworks.
Lesson 2 | Monoprint: Unseen the predicted form
With the use of oil paint and paper, we are trying to make monoprints in the easiest way. Allows us to reflect on the fundamental art education of teaching us how to draw, no planned drawings, only perceptions with instinct.
Lesson 3 | In the Means of Layering
Within 1.5-hour time, each of us is going to work on a small canvas continuously. It’s a non-stop progress until the end of the workshop. Different kinds of layering techniques are introduced. With those techniques, we try to experience a mind-flipping process and therefore make an artwork with rich content.
About Artist | Xie Chengxuan
Born in Guangzhou in 1997, graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2020. He then pursued an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London, completing his studies in 2023.
His artistic practice primarily employs oil, acrylic, and mixed media on both canvas and paper. Grounded in deconstruction, he distils objects into their fundamental visual components — points, lines, planes, colour blocks, textures — before reassembling them. Given that each viewer’s cultural and personal background influences their perception, the resulting image resists a single interpretation. The independent visual elements maintain an interactive dialogue within the finished work, creating an ongoing engagement with the surface.
For Xie, the act of painting is akin to digestion. He absorbs influences—political, social, and personal — deconstructs them and reconstitutes them through repeated interactions with the canvas. Each layer reflects a shift in thought, with closure deliberately avoided. A focus on superficial beauty is eschewed; instead, the visible struggle is central to his artistic expression.
Works by Xie Chengxuan are included in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology at the University of Oxford in United Kingdom, Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, X Museum in Beijing, and various private collections.
