Writing about Chui Tze-hung’s solo exhibition at Alisan Fine Arts in the South China Morning Post on the 18th of May 1987, art critic Nigel Cameron stated that the great challenge of the 1960s and 1970s for younger Chinese artists was how to revitalise the tradition of Chinese painting which was moribund. Chui was one of the dozen or so painters of those times who set his mind and brush to this.
Read MoreBorn in Hong Kong in 1936, today Chui is a well-known ink painter. In 1962 he graduated from the China College in Hong Kong, with an emphasis in Chinese art. In 1968 he studied print-making with the American artist Joan Farrar and in 1969 Chinese ink painting with Lui Shou-kwan. He began teaching art in 1985. He has published three books about the Hong Kong art scene, including Beyond the Painter’s Brush in 1991 and Art Talks, Art Circle in 1992. He founded studio Touchstone at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre in Hong Kong in 2005. He is currently an advisory to the Jao Tsung-I Academic and Art Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, Vice Chairman of Hong Kong Artists Association, and Honorary President of the Chinese Poem, Calligraphy and Painting Research Institute Lingnan Branch Campus. Chui also has had a long career in art criticism, and has written articles for the Golden Age Magazine, Artist Magazine, Companion Pictorial, Wen Wei Pao, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, and New Evening Post. He was also a member of the influential art groups In Tao Group and One Art Group (founded in 1971).
Since his solo exhibition in 1987, the gallery has included his works in two group exhibitions for Lui Shou-kwan and his students in 1995, and more recently in 2015.
Text courtesy Alisan Fine Arts.
