Everyone is special and should look for his or her own colors. Gary Chung has long been named as a star makeup artist for many years because he could always highlight and embrace everyone’s unique beauty. Chung’s achievements today ride on his passion and hard work accumulated with time. Having graduated from Stage and Theatre Arts Department from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, as well as obtaining a Master Degree from The Hong Kong Baptist University, Chung has devoted his time in professional makeup, lecturing, writing for his lifestyle column at a local newspaper, and recently cooperating with Mother’s Choice for an exciting art project.

每個人都是特別的，都能找出其獨特色彩。Gary Chung擅於突出及擁抱每個人的美麗之處，因此多年來擔任星級化妝師，並憑著多年的熱誠及勤奮而得到現時成就。Gary畢業於香港演藝學院舞台及製作藝術學院，並於香港浸會大學取得碩士學位，全心投入專業化妝、教學、本地報刊生活專欄寫作，最近與「母親的抉擇」合作一項藝術項目。

Clive Lee is a cross-disciplinary visual artist, a therapist, a social entrepreneur and an educator. Completed his master of arts in visual arts at HKBU, he is currently pursuing his PhD in education at HKU. Clive is the Founder of Phoenix Foundation to promote resilience under COVID 19. He is a senior executive across corporate and social sectors, covering philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, foundation, NGO, social entrepreneurship and public relations. As a humanistic therapist, he is inspired to use art to explore people's suppressed emotions.

Living as an artist, a therapist, a social entrepreneur and an educator, I cherish life as an encountering of love and relationship. Through a humanistic artistic approach, I explore the meanings of life and death, happiness and suffering, as well as attachment and letting go. While my early paintings of abstract expressionism captures moments of emotions reflecting my autistic childhood, negligence, bullying, separation and bereavement as stated in my solo exhibition, “the sculpture of time, people and love”, I later developed a new style in digital arts, experience design and performance art as I recovered from sadness, loneliness and loss through my self-healing process with behavioral health, hypnotherapy and Buddhism.

Now, I found my calling in establishing Phoenix Foundation for promoting resilience against adversity. Resilience means bouncing forward in coping with adversity. Using life stories of my own and many other ordinary people who transformed from adversity, I would love to inspire people to find their real happiness and end their suffering. The positive impacts of death and suffering become my major artistic inspiration.

My award-winning artistic project: “RESILIENCE” recorded my one-year daily experience in 2020 and collected narratives from people about how they faced adversity under the COVID 19 contexts. Inspired by Buddhism’s story of Kisa Gotami and Japanese Shinto’s Oharae ceremony, I transformed the contexts into an experience design in recognizing COVID 19 as our collective experience. The project collected over 800 words from the public to describe their feelings under the pandemic for collective healing.

“Authentic relationship” is my recent socially engaged arts project in a partnership with Mothers’ Choice to invite girls with unintended pregnancy experience to openly share their real feelings, unexpressed emotions, intimate relationships, and inner world with the public by taking pictures of their important encounters and describing them in poetic languages. The digital projections serve as open door to welcome public to go inside their world and experience their vibrant colours and lives.

Clive Lee 是一位跨領域的視覺藝術家、治療師、社會企業家及教育家，於香港浸會大學取得視覺藝術碩士學位，現於香港大學修讀教育博士課程。他創辦Phoenix Foundation，促進大眾在2019冠狀病毒病下的復原力。Clive是多個企業及社會部門的高級行政人員，工作經驗包括慈善團體、企業社會責任、基金、非政府組織、社企及公共關係。他作為人本主義治療師，透過藝術去探索受壓抑的情緒。

作為藝術家、治療師、社會企業家及教育家，我珍惜生命能遇上愛與關係。我透過人本主義藝術療法，探索生與死、喜與悲、依附與放手的意義。早期的抽象表現主義畫作體現了我多種情緒，包括孤僻童年、被忽視、欺凌、分離、喪親之痛，這亦曾於我的個人展覽「the sculpture of time, people and love」中展現；後來藉著行為健康、催眠療法及佛學進行自我治療，我從哀傷、孤苦及迷失中恢復過來，繼而開展了數碼藝術、體驗設計及行為藝術的新風格。

我從創辦Phoenix Foundation中找到感召──促進復原力，抵禦逆境。復原力是在逆境中跳躍前進的能力。我自身的生命故事，以及走過逆境的普羅大眾，希望都能啟發眾人不再愁苦，找到真正快樂。死亡與痛苦的正面影響，成為我的主要藝術靈感。

我的得獎藝術項目「RESILIENCE」記錄了我2020年間的每日體驗，以及人們如何於2019冠狀病毒病中面對逆境的故事。我將迦沙喬達彌的佛家故事，以及日本神道教的淨化儀式，創作成一項體驗設計，將2019冠狀病毒病的經歷化為集體回憶。這項目收集了逾800人在疫症下的感受，成為我們的集體治療。

「Authentic relationship」是我最近與「母親的抉擇」合作的一項社會參與藝術項目，邀請意外懷孕少女坦誠分享真實感受、無法抒發的情緒以及內心世界，為重要經歷拍下照片，並以詩詞表達出來。這些數碼影像打開一道門，讓大眾走進她們的世界，體會其色彩與生命。

To sew and mend is also a process of self-reflecting and healing.

The series of surgery in 2016 were a challenge to both my body and soul, but also inspired me to capture the positive attitude towards the breaking and repairing of imperfect ceramic.

In my solo art exhibition in 2019, I showed the connection between repairing myself and repairing objects. During preparation, through repeated fabrication, intended breaking, and long period of repair, the hidden wound reappears and suffers again, so that it starts to heal.

It is purely my personal interest to explore through glass art and repairing of porcelain as the creative media. As using such media, I realize how they represent the antagonism and complementation between oriental and western culture respectively.

This journey of discovery started off when I was apprenticed to Master Lucio Bubacco for glass art learning in Murano, Venice, and continued by being apprenticed to Master Wang Laoxie for learning of “staple repair”, a repair technique of ancient Chinese porcelain. Master Wang, a signature inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, didn’t only instruct me in repair technique, but also widened my horizons of the Chinese culture I neglected as I grew up in colonial Hong Kong.

Opening the door, I am profoundly inspired by Chinese culture and start studying different porcelain repair techniques, and the aesthetic choice and value difference among different cultures. To my surprise, the exploration of art direction is closely related to my interest in psychology at early age, and the confusion about culture and identify during adolescence.

縫補的過程也是自我反省和療癒的過程。

2016 年接連的手術帶給我身體及心靈的挑戰，也促使我藉此機會去捕捉我對破碎與修復瓷器那不完美的樂觀看法。

2019 年的個人藝術展覽，我展示了修補自己和修補物件之間的聯繫。在準備的過程中，通過重複的製作、故意的破碎和漫長的修補過程，讓隱藏的傷口重現，重新體驗痛苦， 並開始癒合過程。

最初將玻璃藝術和瓷器修補作為創意媒體的探索，純粹是出於我的個人興趣。在使用這些媒介的時間越長，我就越意識到它們如何分別代表著東西方文化的對立和互補。

這個發現旅程從威尼斯穆拉諾島跟Lucio Bubacco大師學習玻璃藝術開始，然後延續於跟王老邪大師學習中國古代瓷器修補技術“鋦瓷”。王大師是非物質文化遺產代表性傳承人，不僅教授了我鋦瓷的技術，還打開了我在香港殖民地的成長過程中所忽略的中國文化的視野。

打開了這扇門之後，我開始深受中國文化的啟發，及後研究不同的瓷器修補方法和不同文化中涉及的美學選擇及價值觀的差異。在藝術方向的探索，竟與我早期對心理學的興趣 ，以及我在青春期經歷的文化及身份困惑如此的密切相關。