KWONG Kwok Wai 鄺國惠
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Painting has been KWONG Kwok Wai’s passion since childhood. Born in 1965, in Hong Kong, Kwong learnt about the basic skills of art from his private art teachers, and he kept on practicing and developing his artistic approach all along the way while serving in the journalistic field for 30 years. After witnessing and reporting the ups and downs of Hong Kong, he quit his job as an Executive Producer in a TV news channel by the end of 2018, where he could let himself fully devote his time and affection to pursue his dream as an artist.
The artist-in-residence program in Vermont Studio Center in 2019 was envisioning — Kwong fell in love with abstraction and made abstract art as his artistic approach. After the trip, he developed his series “The Map of a Myth”. Having held two solo exhibitions in Hong Kong in 2019 and 2020, Kwong also has his work exhibited in Galeria Azur Berlin in Germany and Boomer Gallery in the United Kingdom. He was one of the finalists of the “Abstract/Experimental Art” competition of the International Artist Publishing, Second Place in the “2022 All Abstraction Online Competition”. His work was also featured in online exhibitions, including TansCultural Exchange of the United States, and Communitas III: Digitale Gemeinschaft of Switzerland.
During his career as a journalist, Kwong has won numerous international awards, including Silver World Medal for Best News Documentary/Special, The New York Festivals, 2008 and Winner (International), News Documentary, RTDNA, The Edward R. Murrow Awards, 2003. With three full-length novels and one short story collection published, Kwok Wai is also an established writer in Hong Kong.
He would describe his life as segmented into two periods: colonial rule and Chinese sovereignty. To reminisce about his childhood recollection and the historical phase of Hong Kong, he finds painting a more genuine form of expression.
鄺國惠1965年香港出生，自幼熱愛繪畫。在投身新聞業三十年期間，他邊工作邊學習，跟數位老師鑽研西洋畫基本功，慢慢琢磨出他的一套美術觀。記者生涯，讓他見盡香港局勢在回歸前後多番起跌，毅然於2018年年底，放棄電視新聞監製的職位，轉投繪畫事業，全心追尋藝術家之夢！
2019年，在美國Vermont Studio Center的藝術家駐留計劃，是一趟啟蒙之旅。他不但愛上了抽象這個藝術表達形式，更以此發展成他的《神話地圖》系列。同年及2020年兩次個展是初試啼聲，其後，作品亦於德國柏林Galeria Azur，及英國倫敦Boomer Gallery登場。他奪得International Artist Publishing舉辦的「抽像/實驗藝術」比賽入圍奬；於「2022 All Abstraction Online Competition」中獲得第二名。作品亦於多個網上平台上發表，包括：美國TansCultural Exchange，以及瑞士Communitas III : Digitale Gemeinschaft。
從新聞界的國際奬項，鄺國惠屢獲嘉許，包括2008年The New York Festivals「最佳新聞紀錄片/特輯組別」銀奬；2003年The Edward R. Murrow Awards RTDNA「新聞紀錄片（國際組別）」冠軍。他亦是資深小說作家，曾出版三部長篇小說及一個短篇小說集。
鄺國惠形容其人生分成兩半，殖民統治階段，及回歸中國主權的年代。曾身處不同崗位，他發現繪畫之於他更真實，更能重塑童年回憶，以及香港走過的歷史。