About

Pat WingShan Wong (aka Flyingpig), is a community-based illustrator, educator and facilitator.

She is the assistant professor in the Academy of Visual Art, Hong Kong Baptist University (BUAVA), and was a lecturer in (BA)Illustration Animation at Kingston School of Art(2021), guest lecturing in Royal College of Art(2021), and recently graduated from the Royal College of Art MA in Illustration(2019-2021). Her practice lies in the intersections of architecture, technology, memory and identity that portray community stories ranging from people to landscapes and objects from my surroundings.

In 2016, the first personal picture book The Scenery of Old Shops was published, presenting the life philosophy of these small shops and people who have been quietly working hard, with a warm and fresh style of painting. Published in 2018, Once Upon a Time in Tai Kwun, a collection of 100 oral stories of the old neighborhoods in Central, reconstructed the history and human relations of the museum and the community in the 1970s. She has been invited to cooperate with TaiKwun, M + Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, and West Kowloon Cultural District. She has also commited art works for brands such as West Kowloon Cultural District, Standard Chartered Bank, Porsche, Hong Kong Tourism Board,etc. Her works are now collected by the Hong Kong Museum of Art.