Opening:
Dec 21st 2008 Sun 3pm

Stage 1 proudly presents Sarah Lai’s solo painting exhibition: ‘Bloom’.

Lai will be showing a series of paintings representing images of nuclear explosions.
Inside the exhibition space, one will find to be surrounded by paintings and pencil drawings of mushroom clouds. The moment of the convulsed action is frozen and lengthened. In contrast to the bold meaning of the image, the execution is done in soft pastel tones which create a sense of peace and quietness. Under Lai’s fine softly brushstrokes, we can’t hear the violence and the loud ‘boom’ sound of the attack. In other works the moon and airplanes are pictured which in relation to the explosions create associations to painful moments in the past.

About artist:
Sarah LAI cheuk-wah is a young local painter who graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fine Arts Department, 2007. Sarah won awards by Cheng’s Creative Award, Grotto Fine Arts Award and Ramon Woon Creative Prize. She is currently exhibiting in Hong Kong and the USA.  Her works have been collected by local and overseas collectors and institutions. Sarah has her own distinguished style of painting whereby she uses light and low-contrast color with small and highly detailed strokes to depict subject matters that seem remote from her.