Currently on show at Duddell’s, the M K Lau Collection is delighted to announce an extension of its current thematic group exhibition Inspired by Ink with additional works, bringing together 36 works spanning over the past four decades since the 1960s, created by13 notable Hong Kong ink artists. The extension of Inspired by Ink will be on view on the fourth floor of Duddell’s from 23 June to 27 September 2021, while the original exhibition on the third floor will be on view throughout the year and beyond.

Built over four decades, the M K Lau Collection is one of Asia’s finest private collections of 19th and 20thcentury Chinese brush-and-ink paintings and calligraphy, alongside contemporary ink paintings and others from the 21st century. With its breadth and depth, the Collection reflects the main currents of artistic endeavour in Chinese ink painting. In the second half of the 20th century in Hong Kong, there was a flourishing of innovation with ink as a medium, which has since been referred to as the ‘Hong Kong New Ink Movement’. Co-curated by Catherine Maudsley, the exhibition presents the distinctive art style of Hong Kong ink masters and the students they inspired in three approaches: pioneering ink artist Lui Shou-kwan (1919 – 1975); Liu Kuo-sung (b. 1932); and the Lingnan School succession, showcasing the diversity of ink painting approaches, interpretations and methods.

Curator: Catherine Maudsley

Venue address: Level 3, Shanghai Tang Mansion 1 Duddell Street, Central