The Hanging Garden focuses on artists employing traditional formats and mediums to communicate meaning through contemporary landscape art. The works of Yu Peng. Xiang Guohua and Tony Ng illustrate three distinct directions by artists working within the boundaries of contemporary Chinese painting and sculpture.

Yu Peng‘s use of calligraphy and ink on rice paper pays homage to his ancient masters while exploring present-day culture. His nature-scopes emphasize a reclusive lifestyle that is both spiritual and satirical. examining the separation between an idealized past of the literati and the materialistic values of modern society.

Contrasting the contemporary images at Yu Peng are the traditional mountain and water works at Xiang Guohua, employing a unique medium to examine the past. The time-consuming process of burning small holes into rice paper and engraving acrylic likens the creative method to that of a Buddhist practitioner. where the actions emphasize the practice more than the end (or work) displayed.

In an era of visual transformation. landscape art is widely innovative and diverse. at times containing subtle social commentary. In his photography. painting and acrylic sculptures. Tony Ng addresses issues at congestion and pollution caused by londfills and construction sites in Hang Kong.

The Hanging Garden investigates contemporary Chinese ‘ landscape art as a means of expressing society via - realism. metaphor and abstraction. it is less about the literal representation of scenery and more concentrated on establishing a new vocabulary through long-standing techniques, materials and motifs.