劉卓禮 Philip Lau 郭小燕 Grace Kwok
劉凝映 Lau Ying Ying
Cowrice
一個由爸爸劉卓禮，媽媽郭小燕和女兒劉凝映組成的家庭創作單位。
他們從相識，結婚，女兒出世至今七歲，一直無間斷地進行創作，每次都會以當時的自身反省來看世界，女兒的加入更對他們對世界的看法帶來了新的衝擊，作品大多以小朋友的角度來進行探討和創作。
其實，cowrice是由劉卓禮及郭小燕於2003年創立。致力創作瑣碎無聊的東西。他們主要以照片，文字，錄像，插畫及手作製品來作為創作媒體，而靈感或題材則以自我的簡單生活為中心，帶出平和單純的感覺，同時亦帶一點對社會現況的不滿，既單一又矛盾。女兒2007年出世後，創作沒有停下來，然而，他們從女兒眼中看見夢幻出現在平凡裏。
This creative unit is made up by Philip Lau, the father, Grace Kwok, the mother and their daughter, Lau Ying Ying.
Since they met, the couple has been creating works reflecting their worldview and the birth of their daughter, now aged 7, certainly changed the way they see the world, leading to their child innocence-inspired creations.
Emulating their own simple lifestyle, Cowrice was jointly created by Philip Lau and Grace Kwok in 2003, with a focus on ‘silly’ themes, and using photos, texts, video, illustration and handicrafts. The work gives off a peaceful feel, expressing the authors’ weariness of modern society. Ying Ying was born in 2007 and they keep creating with her around, discovering through the child’s eyes a wonderful world amid the dull routines.
我家住在城市鄉村
My Little Home in Town Village
作品以我們和七歲的女兒劉凝映所住的地方為題。構思來自她和鄉村裏周圍事物的幻想。我們一家人，每天也走在這個破舊的鄉村之間，慢慢走，細心看，然後一起幻想出天馬行空的事情，既夢幻也很有趣。我們在這個鄉村生活了差不多四年了，這些日子裏，我們習慣把碰到或是幻想到的事，以圖畫和書法記錄下來。
這個展覽，我們嘗試把一家人所幻想到的一一呈現出來。
如貓隧道裏的粉紅貓坐著貓巴士，十二隻小兔子跳來跳去，彩虹月亮高高掛，松鼠行鋼線，有禮貌的鸚鵡等等。
是平凡卻帶點夢幻，只要願意細心感受，聆聽，觀察，再幻想，有趣奇怪的事情便會發生。
我們從女兒眼中看見夢幻出現在平凡裏。
我們一家人會以圖畫，布藝，刺繡和書法等元素，來裝置一個可以與參觀者互動交流的房間，房間正是我們城市鄉村的縮影。把女兒和我們幻想到的給通通弄出來，把夢幻化成真實。
凝映自小就喜歡和媽媽一起看富有夢幻構思的故事，如Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 和 Chitty Chitty Band Band等等。
The work stems from our place, where the family lives. We draw inspiration from Ying Ying’s fantasies about the village and its surroundings. We stroll across this old village, where we have lived for almost four years, recording through sketching and calligraphy our interesting encounters and fantasizing.
In the exhibition, we try to present our fantastic world, where pink cats take the Cat bus across the Cat tunnel, 12 rabbits jump, with rainbow and the Moon rising high, squirrels scurrying on the wire, a polite talking parrot …
These look ordinary yet fantastic. Feel, listen, observe and fantasy will make you discover funny and unusual things.
Through our daughter’s eyes, we see a wonderful world amid the daily routines.
Using drawings, fabric crafts, embroidery and calligraphy, we install a room to interact with visitors, full of our fantasias in an actual space, an epitome of our town village.
Ying Ying has read lots of fairy tales together with her mum, including Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
吳斯翹 Billie Ng 區子由 Au zi yau
吳斯翹，香港創作人，四貓之奴，一孩之母。以文為生，以手作為業，以玩樂為終身大事。在怪獸當道的石屎森林之中，不做頂天立地的大樹，只做呼吸著土壤氣息的蘑菇女子。
Billie Ng is a Hong Kong creative type, mother of four cats and a kid. She is a writer, has an interest in handicrafting, loves playing and fun-making and just wants to lead a simple, natural life amid the concrete jungle, skirting secular pursuits and the vanity fair.
命名 Name Giving
今次的創作以「命名」為主題。作為父母，送給孩子第一份禮物，是名字。雖只是兩個中文字（甚至一個），但這個名字，卻是一輩子的祝福、期許與展望。我等小時候，所有人都以中文名喚孩子，每次呼喚，都將父母的期許，提醒一次，潛而默化之間，孩子不多不少，都備有名字所含的特質。然而，近年來父母多用英文名叫孩子，中文名字的魔法，似乎慢慢失傳。
所以，今次特別以「名字」為主題，作者搜集了多個名字，然後展示命名的背後意義，再配以多個獨一無二的手作娃娃，於今次展覽展出，希望觀眾，重新重視自己中文名的文化，讓孩子承傳。
The work deals with “Name Giving”, the very first gift every baby gets upon birth. A Chinese name can be one or two characters that encompass parents’ expectations and blessings for their child. In older times, children were called by their Chinese names, every call bringing to mind parents’ expectation, with the child gradually internalizing the connotative traits of his/her name. However, more recently, parents tend to call their children by the English name, squandering the spellbinding magic of Chinese names.
Here the author presents a work centering around given names, revealing the meaning behind many of them, and combining unique handmade dolls to prompt visitors to re-think the cultural significance behind their Chinese given names and to pass down this tradition.
川井深一 Lin Hsiang Chun 小熊 Ho Seng Hei
川細間代 Lin, Tai-hsuan
川井深一，名字是個咒，寫字的時候就穿緊身衣躲進去變成川井深一。最強大的是另一個叫作「媽媽」的咒語，一被呼喊就會變得很有力氣。哺乳一隻黑熊，出版有詩集《在虛構的雪裡》。是教師、編輯、廚藝很糟糕的母親。是為孩子喚詩、喚故事的人。愛是利器，給我力氣。
The name Lin Hsiang Chun is already a curse on me, but the term “mama” is even stronger. Whenever I hear it, I feel powerful.
I have a son (nicknamed Black Bear) and I have published a poetry collection. I’m a teacher, editor, and a mother with poor cooking skills who but loves reading poetry and stories for my child, for love gives me strength.
(1) 手太癢=手好痕゜博物間
Itchy Hands Gallery
小孩子眼中，沒有「垃圾」這東西，甚麼都好好玩。[手太癢=手好痕゜博物間]裡面是黑熊撿來的石頭、鳥窩和蜂窩、松果牛油果樹葉和蟬、小車車等。這是個一半展，展覽之後需要和小孩一起放回原地才算真正完成。
In children’s eyes, there’s no rubbish, as they can play with almost anything. The gallery is filled with stones, bird’s nests, beehives, leaves, and cicadas collected by Black Bear, and car toys. This is an interactive, ongoing exhibition: you are invited to play inside, then put everything back after playing to complete the game.
(2) 哺啾哺啾，貝比小麻糬
PuchiuPuchiu, Baby Mochi
是一個母親的身體，讀和寫有孩子的詩。
A mother’s body, where you are invited to write and read poems inspired by your kid’s words.
澳門唐心兒協會 Macau Down Syndrome Association
澳門至友協會 Best Buddies Macao
澳門唐心兒協會 Macau Down Syndrome Association
以關心、愛護、協助唐氏綜合症人士及其家人的生活、爭取權益及提升其福祉為宗旨的非牟利團體。
A not-for-profit group dedicated to caring and supporting children suffering from Down Syndrome and their families, offering them a better quality of life, protecting and fighting for their rights as well as enhancing their wellbeing.
澳門至友協會 Best Buddies Macao
我們的使命是建立一個的全球志願者運動從而為智力和發育有缺陷人士（ IDD）創造一對一的友誼，融入性就業及發展領導力的機會。
Our mission is to establish a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
參與名單：高亮、梁俊達、歐陽廣謙、鄧智華、鄺全希、黃桂姍、彭嘉琳、陳怡麗
指導老師：盧小朵，主修平面設計，一位二歲半女兒的母親，喜愛與小朋友一起作畫，現職澳門至友協會，職責為特殊人士與澳門社區人士建立一對一友誼。
Instructor Biography: Dora has a major in graphic design, is the mother of a 2.5-year-old and loves painting with children. She works at the Best Buddies Macao Association, with the duty to establish a one-to-one relationship between the mentally disabled and Macao community.
快樂天使 Happy Angel
這次作品由澳門唐心兒協會的小朋友在三個星期內畫的畫作展示，他們不是怪物，他們不是病菌，熱愛音樂，富有動感，喜歡畫畫，快樂塗鴉，親切友善，溫柔善良，寶寶如糖，我們的甜心。他們與一般小朋友一樣，畫畫方式內容多變，線條真摯，想像無限，帶出自由的訊息，好讓我們可以進入他們的世界，對他們有更多的了解，並由澳門至友協會作指導及協助。
The body of work includes drawings made by children from the Macau Down Syndrome Association during a span of three weeks. The ailing children are not monsters, nor contagious. Like all children, they are energetic, like music, drawing and doodling. They are friendly, gentle and kind. So sweet they are that become our sweethearts. Like other kids, they show a variety of themes, candid lines, vast imagination and freedom in creation, transporting us to their innocent world and giving us a glimpse of their inner feelings.
(Directed and supported by Best Buddies Macao)
郝元春 Yolanda Kog
服裝設計系畢業。
雙魚座的八零後喵星人。
愛貓愛創作。擅長手作。
2009年移居澳門。
現為自由插畫師。
部份展覽記錄：
2009《貓女正傳》插畫個展
2012《我喜歡你是寂靜的》多媒體插畫個展
2014《港澳插畫交流展》聯展
2014《澳門劇情-動漫美學雙年展》聯展
A graduate from the Department of Costume Design and Engineering of the Jiangnan University, Yolanda works as an illustrator. She is a Post-80s, a Pisces, who loves kitties, creating and handicrafts. She relocated to Macao in 2009.
Exhibitions (selection)
2009 Legend of Cat Girl: Illustrations by Yolanda Kog
2012 I Like You When You Are Quiet – Mixed Media Illustrations by Yolanda Kog
2014 Hong Kong – Macau Illustration Exchange Exhibition
2014 Macao Scenario – Animamix Biennale
跟著小人兒做玩偶
Parent-child Workshop on Puppet Making Inspired by Children’s Drawing
其實，以前我也不是特別留意到小朋友的繪畫作品，雖然也能感受到他們畫面中那種純粹。但是，當你真的低下頭去，仔細看看那些畫，那些線條，那些顏色和造型，便會驚歎不已的。他們的表達直接而強烈，單純卻充滿力量。用一個字來形容就是拙。“拙”實在是很難能可貴的東西。看過他們的世界，你一定會覺得，現實世界是如此了無生趣。
如果你想了解小朋友的世界，也許要“變”成他們的一份子。或許這樣是更接近他們的方式吧。這個過程中，會更清晰的明白他們的思維方式和看世界的角度。既然這樣，如果跟隨他們畫面中的造型，製作成可以觸摸到的實體公仔，或許是個不錯的嘗試！於是，製作就這樣開始了！這次的製作像是一次歷險，將小朋友世界中那些危險的，怪奇的，可愛的，笨笨的….各種角色，通過針線，布料等等，用單純的、不加修飾的製作手法，呈現小朋友原本的那種“拙”，紙上的想象力就這樣飛了出來，小朋友腦袋裏的異想世界就這樣出現在眼前了。
一起去感受，或者世界原本就該是這樣，誰知道呢。
Before I didn’t pay much attention to children’s drawings, although I could feel its purity. But when you give them a good look, the strokes, colours and designs will overwhelm you. Children draw and express themselves in a direct and passionate manner, and the result is pure and powerful painting. We may use adjectives like ‘simple and unadorned’ to describe it, and it is indeed a precious characteristic of children’s art. It’s no surprise that after experiencing their fancy world, the real world feels so flat!
Yet to grasp children’s world, you must turn yourself into a child. That would put you closer to them, letting you better understand their thinking ways and their peculiar perspective of the world.
How would it be if we create tangible puppets following the characters designed by the little painters in their drawing? It might be a good experiment. Such idea eventually led to the puppet making project, a seemingly adventure while we use needle, thread and cloth to present the treacherous, grotesque, lovely and silly characters from the children’s world on paper, with simple, unadorned techniques trying to convey the primordial child’s simplicity. The end result is a sincere representation of a fantastic world in children’s mind, bursting from their imaginations on paper.
Let’s feel it together. Perhaps originally the world is just that simple. Who knows?
余韶湘 U Sio Seong
澳門出生，中國廣州華南師範大學美術系美術教育文學學士。曾修讀澳門視覺藝術學院西洋畫基礎課程。現為小楠畫室美術導師。
部份展覽記錄
2000年婆仔屋藝術空間—“碎什什畫展”
2003年牛房倉庫個人素描展—“紊亂—余韶湘繪畫作品展”
2006年4月華南師範大學及廣州美術學院交流展—態度
2009年1月牛房倉庫牛年牛又展—蠻牛
Born in Macao, U Sio Seong holds a BA in Art Education from Guangzhou South China Normal University. She took a fundamental training course in Western painting at the Macau Visual Arts Institute. Now she’s an art instructor at Siu Nam Art Studio.
Exhibitions (selection)
2000, “Bits & Pieces” Painting Exhibition, Espaço de Arte do Albergue
2003, “Confusion - U Sio Seong Drawing Exhibition”, OX Warehouse
April 2006, “Attitude”, Guangzhou South China Normal University – Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Exchange Exhibition
January 2009, “Restless Buffalo - Ox Re-exhibition in the Year of the Ox”, OX Warehouse
不倒叮咚 Roly-poly Tingle
是次的裝置是以小朋友的畫作為藍本，通過成人（作者）的理解和消化後，將這些畫作轉化成立體的實物，以不倒翁的形態呈現在觀眾面前。
因此，這些裝置實際上是小畫家們與作者的結合，是作者把兒童看到的世界，運用自己的手法傳譯出來的作品。
The stereoscopic roly-poly toy installation is a reinvention from the perspective of an adult based on children’s paintings.
Incorporating the creativity of the children painters and the artist, these installations are the artist’s reinterpretation of the world in children’s eyes.
遊戲及休息區
Games and seating area
滑梯及背景創作 余韶湘
Slide and background creation by U Sio Seong
阿堅奴 Aquino da Silva
中泰混血雙魚座。愛好Hand Lettering art及鉛筆精描創作，同時熱愛柔道運動。
A half Chinese half Thai Pisces who loves hand lettering art and pencil sketching, as well as Judo.
看著小孩的塗鴉，每每是那不用修飾的、自由伸開的線條最能打動我。那些筆觸的力量之大，可以描畫到我腦海裡，會幻想到小孩子筆下的奇葩異種，不止於紙本上的細小，而是他們想像中的無限大。創作的動機第一步就想到把畫紙上的黑線條巨大化，材料技巧的應用是將可塑形的鋁條屈曲連接，其實這個應用方式也是我第一次的嘗試，怕失敗怕控制不了嗎？不怕，因為小孩子們已用他們的作品提醒我：「任何東西拿到手上就盡情去塑造吧！」
The simple and ‘free style’ in children’s drawings can deeply touch me. The stokes are so strong that they imprint on my mind, making me marvel at the amazing wonders in their drawings – they are infinite in their imaginations, but not just on paper. My initial idea was to magnify those black strokes, twisting and joining bendable aluminum bars.This is my first trial of this creative concept. Am I afraid to fail because of its unpredictability? No, I am not, because children’s art has reminded me that we “Just let creativity run free from our hands!”
林月娥 Lam Ut Ngo
澳門出生，藝術愛好者。澳門理工學院視覺藝術（教育專業）學士，<大美藝術教育>創辦人之一。現從事兒童藝術教學及服裝設計工作，資深服裝設計及製作人。曾參與香港及本地多個舞蹈劇場演出及服裝設計工作，並為本澳多間學校及“牛房倉庫”教授藝術課活動，策劃藝術展覽。
A Macao-born art lover, Lam has a BA in Visual Art (Education) from Macao Polytechnic Institute. A co-founder of an arts education group, senior costume designer and theatre producer, she has been engaged in children’s art education as well as costume design.
Lam has been involved in many dance theatre productions, as a performer or costume designer. She also teaches art courses at several schools and at the Ox Warehouse in Macao, besides curating art exhibitions.
和你的夢飛翔 Flying with Your Dreams
看孩子的畫作常使我感動不已，小朋友畫畫是本能和快樂的事，隨意在紙上亂畫就開心得不得了，同時孩子的畫作充滿童真、稚拙、可愛、色彩表現豐富，非常吸引人眼球，但也時常被人忽視，這次跟著小人兒創作，以孩子的畫作重新演繹，像是重拾已久被遺忘的童年回憶。
I’ve been always excited by children’s drawing as they paint by instinct, happily and indulgently. Doodling on paper seems to give them great pleasure and be fun. Their rich colours look extremely naïve and lovely, and certainly very eye-catching, though we adults tend to pay lesser attention to their creations. This time, I draw inspiration from the little painters, re-interpreting their drawings. The creative process enables me to revisit my long-forgotten childhood memories.
楊冠瑩 Summer, Ieong Kun Ieng
大貓國國王，國境內有一隻蛙政府和三隻貓民。Fast Garden（快速花園）園長。
童年是每年寒暑假和爺爺嫲嫲還有貓咪一起度過的美好時光。
個人經驗
2013年兒童藝術樂園《本來就係咁》﹣大人細路創作展
2008澳門視覺藝術年展
拍板視覺藝術團電影放映會策劃人
King of the Big Cat’s Kingdom with “a fog-run government” and three “catizens”.
Head of the Fast Garden.
For Summer, childhood means beautiful memories of happy winter and summer vacations with her grandparents and their cats.
Experience:
2013, Children’s Art Playground - “We Were Born This Way”: Exhibitions of Works Jointly Created by Adults and Children, Ox Warehouse
2008, Macao Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, organized by IC
Curator of film screening by Associação Audio-Visual CUT
Lucy的神秘派對 Lucy’s Mysterious Party
今天是個風和日麗的日子。可愛的精靈們收到Lucy的邀請，參與一場午後派對。他們精心打扮，浩浩蕩蕩地出發，沿途唱著快樂的童謠。
小精靈們來到奇異璀璨的小山丘，發現Lucy準備了色彩繽紛的糖果和果汁。
他們一起唱歌跳舞玩遊戲、偷窺萬花筒裡另一個絢麗奪目、變幻無窮的世界。
小精靈們已經和Lucy相約好下次派對的日期了，你也收到邀請了嗎？
It’s such a lovely day. Adorable elves get Lucy’s invitation for an afternoon party. Dressed to the nines, singing lighthearted nursery rhymes and heading together to the party, they would find colourful candies and juices prepared by Lucy on the fantastically glamourous hill.
They sing and dance, and play games while peeking through the kaleidoscope into another gorgeous, spectacular, ever-changing world.
The elves set a date for the next party with Lucy. Have you got the invitation?
牛房兒童藝術工作坊
Ox Children Art Workshop
導師 Teacher：林月娥 Lam Ut Ngo
