C&G Artpartment – [art]attack 25

[art] attack presents C & G Artpartment featuring founders Cheng Yee Man(Gum) and Cheung Clara.

Cheng Yee Man(Gum)
Gum was born in Hong Kong, graduated with distinction of Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) in Drawing, at RMIT University in 2002. In 2007, Gum received M.A. in Comparative and Public History from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. From 2002 to 2008, he was the member of School Management Committee of Ha Kwai Chung Government Secondary School.

He is a registered social worker, chairman of a Hong Kong non-profit art group Project 226, founder of C & G Artpartment. From 2002 to 2007, he had been the manager and curator in a Hong Kong renowned art body, Artist Commune, to plan and curate art activities.

Recently, Gum gives art lectures in local design institutes and Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre. He also curates various art talks, exhibits and workshops for secondary schools and other organisations. His artworks explore various media, like painting, performance, photography, video and installation.

Cheung Clara
Graduated at Rhodes College (TN, USA) with majors in Fine Art and Computer Science in 2002, Clara Cheung studied for the Postgraduate Diploma in Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong afterwards and received a master degree of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University.

She has been an art teacher(panel) at a local school, is an active member of the non-profit art group, Project226, and the founder of C & G Artpartment. Having had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Hong Kong and overseas, some of her works have been collected by Macau Art Museum and she now mainly focuses at exploring the media of performance art.