Lam Tung Pang

Born in Hong Kong in 1978, Lam Tung Pang is a Hong Kong artist who

currently lives and works in London and Hong Kong. He studied Fine Art at

The Chinese University of Hong Kong before undertaking a Master's of Art

degree at the Central St Martins College of Art, London in 2004. As one of the

founders of the Fotanian movement, his 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 and times, memories and dreams.

Lam has exhibited extensively worldwide and has works in throughout

private and public collections including Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong Museum

of Art as well as commission work by the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Lam

is the first Chinese artist to win the Hunting Art Prize in the UK and is also one

of the few Hong Kong artists to have exhibited at the Tate Modern. In addition,

he was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship, is recognized for his

contributions to the development of culture and arts by The Secretary for

Home Affairs and was awarded the award for Best Artist (Visual Arts) by the

Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

"For me, painting is an object, one subsided from movement,

rhythm and Zeitgeist. These two paintings with the name of

Fallen World were painted on panel, and they came from

a branch of the unpublished The Sinking World series."

Lam Tung Pang