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Artist Introduction

Flyingpig (Wong Wing Shan) is an illustrator and an assistant professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Wong specialises in portraying narratives within communities while connecting to themes such as architecture, technology, memory and identity. Her publications include The Scenery of Old Shops (2016), an illustration book celebrating the owners and workers in traditional small businesses, and Once Upon a Time in Tai Kwun (2018), which collected 100 oral narratives shared by the old neighbours in Central, and was the inauguration exhibition of Tai Kwun – Heritage of Art and Culture. Wong’s recent research, the Barter Archive, received the Varley Memorable Award in 2020 and was granted funding by Art Council England. The project is ongoing and has collaborations with the Royal College of Art, Camberwell University of Arts and curators from the Tate Archive and the Whitechapel Gallery. The Museum of London, where Wong worked as a researcher in 2022, has collected this project, which has also gained media coverage in outlets such as The Guardian, The World of Interiors, It’s Nice That, The Londonist and South China Morning Post. Wong’s latest research project, “Foreseen Property Agency” (since 2023), secured support from the Hong Kong Art Development Council and Design Trust HK. This project explores future community conservation practices through exhibitions, digital archiving, 3D modelling, and commercial activities.