Community-based Illustrator

Pat Wong Shan Wong is a community-based visual artist, educator and facilitator. She is a lecturer at Kingston School of Art and recently graduated from the Royal College of Art in MA Illustration(2019). Her practice lies in the intersections of architecture, technology, memory and identity, that portray community stories ranging from people to landscapes and objects from my surroundings. Her recent projects highlight evocative meditations on urban development and its public and personal significance. She had projects in different scales and formats in collaboration with institutions, including the Museum of London, the Royal College of Art, Kingston School of Art, Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Art and the Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMOA).

Her initiated project, Barter Archive (2019- ongoing), is a community-led project investigating how the new and the old interact in the 300-year-old Billingsgate Fish Market. The project won the Varley Memorable Award in 2020 and received a project grant from Art Council England (2021) and Hong Kong Art Development Council(2021). The project is still ongoing with connection to the Museum of London, Brighton University, Royal College of Art, and with curators from the Tate Archive and the Whitechapel Gallery. And it is now collected by the Museum of London, where she also works as a researcher. Barter Archive has widely press coverage, including The Guardian, The World of Interiors, It's Nice That and The Londonist, SCMP(HK), etc.

From 2016 to 2022, Pat published her first illustration book The Scenery of Old Shops (2016) and the second book Once Upon a Time in Tai Kwun (2018). She has collaborated with various arts organisations including Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, West Kowloon Cultural District, M+ Museum and Hong Kong Science Museum. She held an exhibition 100 Faces of Tai Kwun (2018) in Central, Hong Kong and her artworks have been collected in the Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Museum of London.