ceekayello

22/04/2023

♻️ Sustainability is always at the heart of our design approach and projects:

Since 2018 with "shhh (樹)" 🌳, "Haiijaii" at Wonderfruit, 💚 "Glow Green" with Kerry Engagement... 🌬Until the recent "Light as Air" installation with La Prairie for Art Basel Hong Kong...

Tonight, on National Geographic TV Asia on how our Creative Director Chankalun art-vocates sustainability through the power of neon art 💚💚💚

Catch Nat Geo Presents: Voices The Art-Vocates on Saturday 22 April, 7:50pm BKK/JKT, 8:50pm HKT/SIN, on National Geographic.

23/03/2022

We were so glad to be selected by Wonderfruit Festival back in 2019 - to use art to raise awareness on an important issue - global air quality :)

We are excited to bring Haiijaii to another corner of the world!

Adulaya Kimmy Hoontrakul Frédéric Bussière Karen Chankalun Santipab Chayintu

04/02/2022

You probably know some of the reasons why neon making is dying in Hong Kong - check out what our Creative Director Karen Chankalun has experienced in her latest TEDxTinHauWomen talk, and how would she like to change the ecosystem and the form of the neon industry, in Hong Kong 🤓

Hong Kong's iconic neon signs are disappearing. Chankalun introduces us to the wonder of this dying art form and explains why preserving this visual language with a new generation of artists is preserving Hong Kong heritage.

08/01/2022

🏆 Very proud that our project has been awarded the Gold Award at the Japanese . As the ONLY Hong Kong design studio awarded in this award, we can’t express enough our joy on the international recognition (including Manuel Rabaté, the Director of Louvre Abu Dhabi) of our local crafts and art project that has planned maliciously for a year with 3 different stages.

📌 The core of our programme is to modernise our local traditional crafts, not only automating them, but to keep some of their stories and essence, and illustrates them through contemporary art.

🀄️🦜 In our Artist in Residence programme in 2019, mahjong tile carver, Cheung Shun-king, and the last birdcage maker in Hong Kong, Chan Lok-Choi, partnered up with local artist Amanda Tong, GoHung, and international artist Frederic Bussiere and Jun Matsumura.

👨‍👧‍👦Together, they explored, reshaped and created two sets of site-specific artworks that cater towards the modern behaviour of our society – ones that will offer the younger generation new insights into our traditional crafts. These resulting artworks were exhibited on a public moving tram #61 exhibition from April to June 2020.

07/01/2022

🏆 We are very honoured to be the ONLY Hong Kong studio receiving the Gold and Bronze awards of the Japanese 🤓 Getting international recognition (including Manuel Rabaté, the director of Louvre Abu Dhabi) to our local projects mean a lot to us 🥰

🤍 These 2 projects are also our favourites where we reinvented local culture and heritage, and concept of sustainability and upcycling art 🌱

👊 We wish to bring more similar projects that align with our value to preserve local crafts, culture and heritage in a modern way; and also striking sustainability-conscious art installations to the general public. STAY TUNED!

06/01/2022

🥉Very proud that our -initiative art installation at the is awarded Bronze award at Japan’s 🌱

🤸‍♀️ Featuring 4 international creatives, Kim, Karen, Fred and Santi 🌫, the concept is derived from a conversation over the imbalance treatment between developed and underdeveloped countries on their policies and targets.

The near 10-metre high outdoor installation used and , to give them second life through our installation. After the dismantle, some of them were gifted to a local school and some were upcycled into New Years card for their third life 🌱

30/11/2021

'Being a woman doesn’t put her at a disadvantage, though.
“We all come in different shapes and forms.
It’s about how we accept them and make them work to our advantage,” Chan says.'

Look how our Creative Director Karen Chankalun explored her identity and self-worth through her neon practice as a female neon artist.

Hong Kong artist Karen Chan is part of a movement determined to revive use of neon, which lit up city streets in advertising and commercial signage for decades.

09/11/2021

Preservation is important.
Like the DNA of our studio, we aspire to redefine and repurpose mediums to give them new meanings and value.

And... our Creative Director, Karen Chan aka Chankalun is going to talk about how she reforms Hong Kong neon at the upcoming TEDxTinHauWomen Talk!

Learn more in the link below!!

This one is going to light you up! Chankalun ceekayello HK’s only active female neon practitioner, will be enlightening us on the neon art form and its preservation.

Tickets: https://www.westkowloon.hk/en/tedxtinhauwomen
Use promo code:
500WMN21

22/10/2021

Our Creative Director Karen is going to share with you "Neon Art Holds Our Tradition, and Lights Our Future" ⚡️

22/10/2021

A feature of "Every Body Is A Beach Body", an experimental work from our Creative Director Karen Chankalun, at Asia Tatler about how it illustrates self-love and confidence in one's body at the .

An exhibition organised by the Karen Leung Foundation - 梁愷昍婦癌基金會 that celebrates female bodies and self-love.

Katharina Reimer of the Karen Leung Foundation shares how the ExtraOrdinary Exhibition is opening up the conversation about women’s health in Hong Kong.

13/10/2021

"Even though the struggle, Karen says it's worth it because she gets to keep such an ingrained and precious part of Hong Kong's tradition alive."

Our Creative Director Karen Chankalun has spoken to CNN Travel on how she reshapes the future of Hong Kong neon :)

From Hollywood blockbusters to Wong Kar-wai movies, neon signs have been an iconic representation of Hong Kong.

24/09/2021

Some more freezing moments in time that we enjoyed at ’s solo exhibition at .ny 💚💚💚