INK AND ARCHITECTURE
Wooden Ink Stamp collection as part of the Critically Homemade Exhibition. 2020
Curated by Marisa You of Design Trust, Presented at SoHo House Hong Kong.
Ink and Architecture combines the aesthetics of historic Chinese seal stamps with the architecture of contemporary Hong Kong. The series of works features architectural miniatures of renowned Hong Kong buildings that serve as decorative handles for traditional seal stamps.
In collaboration with Melbourne-based artists and researchers from Chinese, British, Japanese and Hong Kong backgrounds, Hugh Davies has co-designed stamps impression that appear beneath each of the model buildings. The decorative seal stamps reflects the customs of seal stamp designs but is abstracted and ambiguous, provoking multiple interpretations and meanings. Created in Melbourne Australia in a period of restrictive lockdown, and with awareness of the dramatic change occurring in Hong Kong, this series of works is created in a spirit of collaborative craft that is both playful and irreverent beneath difficult conditions.
