Head of Creative Projects and Senior Designer, Vlisco, Helmond Gabriela Sánchez y Sánchez de la Barquera (GSYSB) is a Mexican-Dutch designer. She was born and raised in Mexico City, and is a graduate of The Design Academy, Eindhoven. GSYSB works as a Senior Print Designer at Vlisco in The Netherlands, creating storytelling projects through textiles and drawings. Since 2017, she has been Head of Creative Projects at Vlisco, and also leads Vlisco&co. Vlisco&co is a collaborative initiative between the Vlisco […]
Errol van de Werdt was until recently director of the TextielMuseum & TextielLab and the Mommerskwartier Foundation in Tilburg, the Netherlands. He is working internationally as an independent curator, critic and consultant. He was educated in museology (BA) (Leiden), art history and archeology (drs. MA) (Amsterdam) and People Management (BA) (Zwolle). Currently he is attending the Dutch Academy for Diplomatic Practice in International Relations at the Clingendael Institute in The Hague. Errol van de Werdt is interested in crossovers between […]
Executive Director and Curator, Para Site, Hong Kong Born in 1982 in Romania, Cosmin Costinas has been the Executive Director and Curator of Para Site, Hong Kong since 2011. He was Guest Curator at the Dakar Biennale 2018, La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain, DAK’ART (2018), Curator of the Dhaka Art Summit 18’ (2018), Co-curator of the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), Curator of BAK-basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2008-2011), Co-curator of the 1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg (2010), and Editor […]
Founder, The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women, Vientiane Chanthasone Inthavong is the founder of The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women in Vientiane, Laos. Established in 1998, it aims to empower rural women by offering them training in weaving, natural dyeing, tailoring, and also aims to revive the traditional crafts of Laos. She has been involved in various exhibitions of Laotian textiles across the world, including in Tokyo (1992), and Yokohama (multiple times), Japan, in Seoul, South […]
Director, Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne Antonia Syme is the Director of the Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1976, the ATW has an international reputation as a world leader in the creation of contemporary hand-woven tapestries. The ATW occupies a unique position within Australia’s artistic landscape as the only workshop of its kind in the country, and one of only a handful in the world. The ATW has produced more than 500 tapestries, many of which can […]
Artist, Jakarta Ade Darmawan lives and works in Jakarta, Indonesia, as an artist and curator. He studied at the Indonesia Art Institute (I.S.I) in the Graphic Art Department. In 1998, he resided in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, during a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2000, with five other local artists, he founded ruangrupa, an artists’ collective platform, in Jakarta. As a member of ruangrupa, he has participated in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2002), the Istanbul Biennial, […]
Hong Kong born, and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. Lam’s works are mostly related to specific situations in collective memory and social contents. Though he paints in the style of Chinese landscapes, Lam does not try to embrace the classical cultural tradition. On the contrary, his oeuvre demonstrates how he oscillates between one aesthetic to another and integrates the different contradictory fluxes of a society in constant movement – journey and landscape are essential as passages between places […]
Born in 1960, Tse Ming Chong lives and works in Hong Kong. After finishing his bachelor’s degree in Communications from Hong Kong Baptist University in 2003, Tse received his master’s degree in Imaging And Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2004. Tse is the chairman and co-founder of Lumenvisum. He has been a photographer and a photography educator for over 25 years. Currently he is Principal Lecturer at the Hong Kong Design Institute. Tse’s photographic installation Hong Kong […]
Born in 1984 in Hong Kong, South Ho Siu Nam graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2006. Ho’s artistic practice began with photography and has since evolved to the inclusion of performance, drawing and mixed media installations. His works encompass the wonders and helplessness of living, the spirituality of existence, as well as the socio-political awareness of Hong Kong. Ho participated in group exhibitions in various international institutions, including LOOK/17 Liverpool International Photography Festival (Victoria Gallery and Museum, […]
Born in 1982, Law Yuk Mui lives and works in Hong Kong. Law graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA). She is the co-founder of the artist-run organisation Rooftop Institute. Using images, sound and installations as her mediums of preference, and adopting the methodology of field study and collecting, her works often involve interventions in the mundane spaces amidst the daily life of the city, combining the physical traces of history, the […]