Exploding Mental Health!
Coming from a traditional family, becoming an artist was never seen as a legitimate path – it simply wasn’t considered a “real” profession. Growing up in an illiterate family environment … Continue Reading ABSTRACT EXPRESSION: Processing Grief – Ilos Ilyas Elias Kirkan
Conceptual Kurdish-Danish artist and columnist Ilos Ilyas Elias Kirkan shares his latest art collection and thoughts on why Abstract Expressionism is his preferred mother tongue. ‘I paint because, for me, … Continue Reading ABSTRACT EXPRESSION: My Mother Tongue – Ilos Ilyas Elias Kirkan
Mind HK’s summer 2025 exhibition at Our Gallery, Wan Chai, opens this weekend! This one is called Listen to the Beat and features 5 zones and interactive experiences, exploring emotions through … Continue Reading Listen to the Beat – Mind HK Exhibition
Mental Ideas is recruiting established and emerging visual artists for Issue 10 of the HKWC‘s quirky lit mag on the theme of ‘PASSION’! Issue 9 of The Apostrophe (‘ROOTS‘) featured a cracking cover … Continue Reading The Roots of Passion
There has been a surge of artists exploring gender identity and expression. Riding this zeitgeist is Japanese fine artist Takuto Kadokura, also known as 22nd Century Jedi, who just completed his … Continue Reading Still Life Without Labels – Exploring Gender Identity through Art
It’s your last chance to view Mind HK and Mindset‘s Here and Now (Brain Back Memories) exhibition at the 3812 Gallery in Central! The exhibition connects stories of mental health … Continue Reading Last chance to see 3812 Gallery exhibition by Mind HK ambassadors!
Issue 5 of The Apostrophe on the theme of ‘Food’ is out! This one is a tasty morsel of poetry, fiction and art! It’s always exciting to connect with new … Continue Reading The Apostrophe Issue 5 – Food
Mental Ideas wishes you good luck, health, prosperity, creativity and magic in the Year of the Dragon!
Mental Ideas is collaborating with the Hong Kong Writers Circle on the publication of its bold new quarterly literary magazine The Apostrophe. Every quarter, we choose five original stories by … Continue Reading Launching The Apostrophe!
Congratulations to our ambassador Charles Tang on his Hong Kong Art School graduation art exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre in Wan Chai! Mental Ideas went along to the … Continue Reading umarell. exhibition
An exhibition of art, poetry and letters by Mind HK ambassadors de-stigmatising mental health is running all this week (Nov 21-28) at 5, Sun Fung Mansion, 52-60 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong … Continue Reading More Than A Label – Mind HK Exhibition
Charles Tang is a Chinese painter who works with different water-based mediums to examine the beauty and suffering of the human condition. He feels that the concept of an artist … Continue Reading Art by Ambassador Charles Tang 鄧煒昌
Mental Ideas was inspired attending the Bipolar Ambition Art Exhibition at HKU last week featuring the work of bipolar artists, including Coby Legans and Juliana Kung, who have contributed a lot … Continue Reading Bipolar Ambition Art Exhibition
Subs are open until April 21 for writers and artists to submit their poems, illustrations and short stories (2000 words) to the Women in Publishing Society‘s anthology Imprint 21! The … Continue Reading Submissions Open for Anthology Imprint 21!
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