Explore Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage at New Art Exhibition Featuring Young Local Artists

2025-12-22 15:38 Last Updated At：15:52

Heritage Museum exhibition showcases new creation by Hong Kong artists inspired by ICH

The Hong Kong Heritage Museum is staging the "HK Snapshots‧City Walks: Fresh Takes on Hong Kong's Art and Cultural Heritage" exhibition, featuring four groups of young local artists, namely the fourth-generation Lingnan School artist Rebecca Lo, the Hong Kong Cheongsam Association, printing studio ditto ditto, and Key-Point Productions. Through porcelain painting, fashion design, letterpress printing and exhibition installation design, the exhibition presents unique facets of Hong Kong's cityscape and cultural personality. The exhibition will run until March 2 next year, with free admission.

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Heritage Museum exhibition showcases new creation by Hong Kong artists inspired by ICH Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

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Heritage Museum exhibition showcases new creation by Hong Kong artists inspired by ICH Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

The exhibition has been on display at the Hong Kong section of the ninth edition of the Hong Kong-Macao Visual Art Biennale since October 2024. It has since travelled to five cities - Hangzhou, Nanjing, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen - and has received an overwhelming response. The exhibition introduced Hong Kong's unique cultural landscape to Mainland audiences. Now, it has returned to Hong Kong with supplementary information about the city's intangible cultural heritage (ICH), delving into the commitment of the artists to preserving, transmitting and innovatively interpreting Hong Kong's ICH and traditional craft skills.

Lo inherits the painting style of the Lingnan School and incorporates the techniques of Western painting to create five porcelain plate sets. She painted local flowers and birds, natural landscapes, and historic buildings on Jingdezhen's white porcelain. With tireless experimentation with paints and techniques, she crafts new expressive forms, revealing colours and intricate variations on the porcelain with vivid detail.

The Hong Kong Cheongsam Association, the protection organisation of the national ICH item, has formed a young designer team to create four innovative sets of men's and women's cheongsams. Featuring the city's unique architecture and memories, the team combines traditional ICH craftsmanship and classic tailoring with advanced technologies such as innovative jacquard weaving and 3D printing, promoting this ICH craftsmanship to younger generations.

Adding personal touches to paper product design with the letterpress printing technique, the printing studio ditto ditto created four sets of printed works, postcards and calendars depicting Hong Kong attractions, scenic spots and cuisine.

Designers from Key-Point Productions have drawn inspiration from flexible street stalls and have incorporated numerous visual elements from old Hong Kong into four foldable exhibition installations for displaying the three groups of artworks mentioned above.

For details of the exhibition, please visit the website at hk.heritage.museum/en/web/hm/exhibitions/data/hk_snapshots_city_walks.html.

I&PARK1 Begins Trial Operations, Paving Way for Hong Kong's Zero Waste Landfilling Goal by 2035

Waste-to-energy facility I·PARK1 trial operation proceeds smoothly

The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) today (December 22) announced that the Integrated Waste Management Facilities Phase I (I·PARK1) has commenced the first phase of trial operation.

The Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Mr Tse Chin-wan; the Permanent Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment), Mr Eddie Cheung; the Under Secretary for Environment and Ecology, Miss Diane Wong; and the Director of Environmental Protection, Dr Samuel Chui, recently visited I·PARK1 to inspect its operations, observing various facility sections, including the unloading and tipping of waste compactor containers, waste treatment processes, waste-to-energy equipment, and flue gas treatment and emission control. They were also briefed by the project team on the progress of the trial operation.

Located on an artificial island off Shek Kwu Chau, I·PARK1 adopts advanced waste incineration technology capable of effectively decomposing organic compounds, including dioxins. I·PARK1 consists of three incineration modules, with a designed municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment capacity of 3 000 tonnes per day. At present, the first module, capable of processing 1 000 tonnes of MSW daily, has already commenced trial operation. The remaining two modules will begin phased trial operations at a later stage. The heat recovered from the incineration process is used to generate electricity, not only powering the facility's daily operation but also exporting 480 million kilowatt-hours of electricity to the public power grid, which is enough to power 100 000 households each year.

Following the inspection, Mr Tse said, "The completion and phased commissioning of I·PARK1 marks the launch of a new approach for managing MSW in Hong Kong beyond reliance on landfills. It signifies a crucial step of Hong Kong toward achieving our target of 'zero waste landfilling' by 2035. In the meantime, we are advancing at full steam the construction of the Integrated Waste Management Facility Phase 2 (I·PARK2) in Tsang Tsui, Tuen Mun, while we remain committed to driving forward various initiatives on waste reduction, recycling, and resource circulation, continuing our progress toward the goal of 'zero waste landfilling' and carbon neutrality."

Dr Chui said that the EPD has been closely monitoring the trial operation of I·PARK1 to ensure its operation and emissions comply with the stringent safety and environmental standards. Following I·PARK1's progressive commencement of operation, the total amount of MSW transported to West New Territories Landfill and North East New Territories Landfill will be reduced accordingly, alleviating the pressure on the two landfills.

In 2024, a total of 10 510 tonnes of MSW daily was disposed of in Hong Kong. I.PARK1 and the proposed I.PARK2 can treat 9 000 tonnes of MSW in total per day. If Hong Kong society can keep the momentum of waste reduction and increase the recycling rate, there may not be a need to construct I·PARK3 to achieve "zero waste landfilling".

Explore Hong Kong's Cultural Heritage at New Art Exhibition Featuring Young Local Artists

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