Ep.42 | I caught up with London-based artist Jade who is in Hong Kong for her first solo show. Our conversation centred around her experience of being back in Hong Kong after 3 years, how her trip to Russia and the Eastern Bloc countries made a lasting impression on her work, we talked about what Jade meant by character proximity and ended our conversation with her current solo show GUSH.

Ep.41 | Artist and curator Kobe Ko is my podcast guest for this week’s The Last Supper. We spoke about her experience in Taiwan, discussed her perspective on the current state of Hong Kong, The Post Human Narrative project that she curated and what Kobe is planning for next year.

Ep.40 | Charles Fong, the gallery director of Rossi & Rossi in Hong Kong, is my next guest of The Last Supper. We began the conversation with his visit to the Art Collaboration Kyoto fair in Japan, we talked about what art is for, discussed what the value of art is, and ended our dialogue talking about the dark side of art.

Ep.39 | Filmmaker Violet Du Feng talked about her recent documentary Hidden Letters which follows two millennial Chinese women connected by their passion for Nushu, a secret female-only language that for centuries has allowed women to communicate privately without men understanding their correspondence.

Ep.38 | Artist Siu Ding hosts a live model club for artists including musicians, painters, writers and photographers. We spoke about her passion to promote body autonomy, gender fluidity in Hong Kong, and she explains her latest project Ritsu Aomame.

Ep.37 | This week I caught up with curator, art critic, curator Chris Wan. He talked about the role of narrative and anti-narrative in the various art disciplines, the multiplicity of perspectives of how we perceived the world and we also talked about his personal experience of displacement in Hong Kong.

Ep.36 | A 66 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, also nicknamed as Shen the T. rex, is the very first skeleton offered at a public auction in Asia. I sat down with Georgina Hilton and we talked about Christie’s upcoming auction on 30th November in Hong Kong. We also talked about Paul Allan’s exceptional art collection at the Rockefeller Center galleries in New York.

Ep.35 | In this episode I have the pleasure to meet Yi Gao, programme lead at Christie’s Education headquarters in Central, Hong Kong. Yi explains how she began her career in art, the many roles she fills at Christie’s Education and what makes learning at Christie’s unique and special.

Ep.34 | Charlotte Lin at Tang Contemporary in Central Hong Kong discussed her experience working with a new generation of artists and collectors in Hong Kong. We also spoke about the background of Charlotte's first upcoming group exhibition Glimmer Shrine.

Ep.33 | Kay May Lin Beadman is a Hong-Kong based artist and researcher. In this podcast episode I travelled to Kwai Hing in and visited in Kay May Lin Beadman in her studio and independent gallery space. Kay talked about her Eurasian experience in Hong Kong, why she co-founded Hidden Space, and the role of critiquing in the emergence and development of art.

Ep.33 | Amanda Sun is the founder of the Arts For Good Foundation, a social enterprise that is dedicated to social inclusion for future generations through the soft power of art and culture in Hong Kong. We spoke about a range of subjects including what drove her to begin Arts For Good and we delved into the purpose and impact of the art making programmes.

Ep.31 | Gallerist Rachel Lee, owner of Soluna Fine Art in Hong Kong talked with me about her story where her interest in art came from, her unexpected journey of becoming a gallery owner and we ended the conversation exploring the meaning of Jeong Myoung-Jo's first solo exhibition, The Paradox of Beauty.

Ep.30 | I returned to Wong Chuk Hang where I met artist Wai Pongyu in his studio. From his studio in Hong Kong we talked about his working approach, the stories visitors tell him, revealing emotions through his line work and Pongyu explained why he has confined himself in a gallery.

Ep.29 | Joseph Chen is an artist and director of culture at Eaton in Hong Kong. We met at his work and discussed Joseph’s group exhibition at the PHD Group, his collaboration with Cas Wong, the research he conducts, and we talked about his personal experience of gender fluidity in Hong Kong.

Ep.28 | Lorence Johnston is a Hong Kong-based rare book dealer. We spoke about how Lorence began his business, discussed surprising facts of some of his rare books including the book cover of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and the amazing story behind The Story of Ferdinand.

Ep.27 | Ysabelle Cheung and Willem Molesworth are the co-founders and co-owners of the PHD Group in Hong Kong. We began the conversation talking about the background of their new gallery, their current exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre in Hong Kong and they explained why they are committed to this city despite all the transformative changes in Hong Kong.

Ep.26 | Farmer and artist Lo Lai Lai Natalie spoke about her early life as a travel writer and how this has informed and influenced her current career. We discussed Natalie’s interests in Sangwoodgoon, meditation, surveillance, fermentation and lastly how her Hyperthyroidism affected her outlook on life and work.

Ep.25 | Performance artist Florence Lam returned to Hong Kong from Europe two years ago. We sat down and delved into her experience of performing in Hong Kong and spoke about her concepts of magical thinking, anthropomorphism and explained what she meant by elastifying worldviews.

Ep.24 | In this episode I sat down with curator Juliana Chan and talked about her current show The World Is Your Oyster, a group exhibition of five Hong Kong artists at Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in Wong Chuk Hang. We explored the Korean fermentation culture of son-mat, her new live art initiative Per.Platform, what a lecture performance is, and the benefits of journaling.

Ep.24 | John Batten talked about how his background has informed his talent for writing, how he shifted from being a gallery owner to focusing on urban planning, he explained  why he avoids writing about bad exhibitions, and the impact of the security law. John shared his personal perspective on working with institutions on large scale public art projects as well and we talked about his deep admiration for the multiple sides of Hong Kong life.