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Fellowship Project
Dr. Lesley Lau spent four months (May – August 2011) at The British Museum in London, U.K., where she conducted research on the museum’s Chinese export art collection with a focus on the Reeves collection.
Biography
Dr. Lesley Lau is the founding curator of the Art Promotion Office (APO) and the art space, Oi!. She had also worked for the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre and the Heritage & Museums Division of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, specialising in Chinese export art as well as public and community art development in Hong Kong.
Recent Development and Achievement
Dr. Lesley Lau is leading the APO in curating a five-year (2019–2023) exhibition and school programme series named “Traversing the Forbidden City”. Comprising different themes relating to the arts, culture and heritage of the Palace Museum, the series presented the first online exhibition “The Common Folks behind the Vermilion Walls” in 2020, offering a glimpse into the life of ordinary people at the imperial palace.
In the remaining three years of the project, APO will work with the student curators of the Department of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong to launch three other exhibitions, namely “Sentiment and Sensibility behind the Vermilion Walls”, “The Masterpieces behind the Vermilion Walls” and “Reckoning in Lives behind the Vermilion Walls”, introducing the Forbidden City from an array of aspects and different stories.
Selected Publication(s)
