The Sovereign Art Foundation at ARTHK11 is proud to present 2009 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalist and Moran Prize Winner, Vincent Fantauzzo and 2006 and 2008 Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray.

The Sovereign Art Foundation has invited Vincent Fantauzzo back to use his talents to encourage creativity amongst the younger visitors to the fair. Vincent was a finalist in the 2009 Sovereign Asian Art Prize for his work Menacing Me and was the public vote prize winner of the 2008 and 2009 Archibald prizes. More recently he was the winner of the Packing Room Prize for his portrait of Matt Moran and the A$150,000 Moran Prize for his painting of Baz Luhrmann.

Last year Vincent and Baz recreated scenes from their motor bike trip around India painting with street kids. This year Vincent will, with help from visitors to the fair, be painting an 8.5metre long mural.

The Sovereign Art Foundation has also invited collaborators Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray who are known for their body of works, Museum Anatomy. Spector and Gray will create a new Museum Anatomy piece throughout Wednesday’s preview.

Museum Anatomy are works created by painting images of photographs of works from museums around the world onto the human body and then the painted body is photographed. The final outcome is sometimes unrecognizable as a human form. During the weekend Spector and Gray will hold a workshop with teenagers along similar lines but instead of painting directly on the body the teens will paint on casts of their own feet and legs.

The Sovereign Art Foundation was set up in 2003 to raise the awareness and profiles of artists around the region while raising money for charity. These two aims are achieved through The Sovereign Asian Art Prize. The first prize winner receives US$25,000 and the remaining 29 finalists are auctioned at a high profiled event with the funds being equally split between the participating artists and the Foundation.

The Sovereign Art Foundation has been funding arts programmes within community centres in Cambodia, India, Vietnam, Nepal and Hong Kong. It selects projects which use art as a means of education, rehabilitation and therapy for disadvantaged children. Starting this year The Sovereign Art Foundation will run new projects in Hong Kong giving it’s previous finalists an opportunity to work with various children’s groups to boost their self confidence and creativity. The collaborations between The Sovereign Art Foundation and Vincent Fantauzzo, Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray at ARTHK11 will be the launch of these new local initiatives.


Teenager Art Workshop
The Sovereign Art Foundation is collaborating with Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray, two-times Sovereign Asian Art Prize finalists, to provide an art workshop of cast painting at the ArtHK11 especially for teenagers on Saturday 28th May and Sunday 29th May.

Date:    Saturday 28th May (12:00pm - 7:00pm), Sunday 29 May (12:00pm - 5:00pm)
**Participants are required to come on both days
Venue:    Booth X8, ArtHK11

Saturday, 28th May
•    Laura Spector and Chadwick Gray will teach participants how to cast a body part in plaster
•    Participants will pair up and help to cast each other's hand or foot
•    After casting, the plaster cast will need 2 to 3 hours to dry

Sunday, 29th May
•    Participants will clean their cast free of unwanted bumps and gesso the surface of the cast
•    Participants will then have all day to paint onto the cast
•    Participants can take their cast home with them after the workshop

If your teen would like to participate, please contact Teresa Yung by email at teresa@SovereignArtFoundation.com or by phone at 2542 1177.