As award season heats up in Hong Kong’s arts community, its arts community is donning its best sparkle. However, this year the real winners are those who have helped others in an act of genuine charity or civic awareness; from taking on one of Hong Kong’s richest families legally to an artist providing joyous artwork that brings happiness to disabled individuals; these individuals deserve our commendation as Hong Kong prize recipients.
The Hong Kong Students Prize is an exciting competition to encourage budding young artists to express their creativity through paintings. Open only to secondary school students enrolled in Hong Kong secondary schools, this contest provides them an outlet to display their talents. Winning artists will receive a Judges Prize worth HK$8,000 while their schools receive an equivalent sum.
This year’s competition boasted its highest ever number of shortlistees from Hong Kong ever and, for the first time ever, two local artists made it onto the final list – among them Noormah Jamal who created Did the Seed Grow?, an acrylic-on-canvas piece depicting two figures sitting against a brick wall with vacant expressions. Jamal claims her piece was inspired by her childhood in Pakistan where she witnessed first-hand the hardships experienced by those living in war-torn regions.
Wong Yik-wai is well known in Hong Kong for his striking abstract works and was awarded a Judges Prize for his painting, In the Mirror, which explores themes of identity and perception through abstract shapes, colors and patterns that exude an air of wonderment and amazement. According to judges of this contest’s theme of exploring identity through artistic mediums.
Scientific research was honored this year, as US scientists Thein Swee Lay and Stuart Orkin received the Shaw Prize for Life Sciences and Medicine. Their groundbreaking work led to treatments for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassaemia which affect 20 million people worldwide.
News Department also performed exceptionally, with Xi Tianqi and Jessica Chen of China Daily Hong Kong earning second and third runner-up in the Best Young Reporting (English) categories for their pieces on cross-border organ transplantation and fertility perseverance, respectively. Furthermore, China Daily Hong Kong photographer Xie Wenqi won second runner-up in Best News Photograph (Series). Piggyback Paddling also brought accolades.
Unfortunately, not everyone shares your enthusiasm. So let us help by providing quality products at competitive rates to meet all of your needs – be they financial, environmental or physical. The BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize, organized by the Hong Kong Alliance of Technology and Innovation and sponsored by Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, honors outstanding scientists and research teams working across different fields such as Artificial Intelligence/Robotics/Life/Health; New Materials/New Energy; Advanced Manufacturing/FinTech and Space. No more than five individuals or teams in any field may be awarded, with the exception of Space which was created through merging of the former Hong Kong Awards for Industry and Hong Kong Awards for Services in 2005. Each award organiser is responsible for drawing up rules of their particular competition, publicising it widely and inviting entries. They are also charged with conducting preliminary evaluation of these entries.