Learning about art from books and on screens is fascinating, but seeing works in situ, examining masterpieces in close proximity, feeling their scale and texture, such experience is just incomparable. What is more, when your classmates and teachers are all there together, going on a trip like that is perhaps one of the greatest highlights of your university years!

The University and individual donors have been very generous in supporting HKU Fine Arts student travel through both faculty-led and individual trips. In recent years, around 20-30 Fine Arts students each year benefit from the following travel grants:

A trip to the Silk Road led by Anita Wong in 1981

A trip to Italy led by David Clarke in 1987

Here is a list of department trips. Did you go to one of these?

Academic Year Destination(s) Person in Charge
1981-1982 Silk Road Anita Wong
1982-1983 Japan Shih Hsio-yen
1983-1984 Silk Road Molly Ho
1984-1985 Taiwan Chuang Shen
1985-1986 Japan Richard Stanley-Baker
1986-1987 Italy David Clarke
1987-1988 – –
1988-1989 Japan Shih Hsio-yen
1989-1990 – –
1990-1991 India Shih Hsio-yen
1991-1992 China Wan Qingli
1992-1993 China Shih Hsio-yen
1994-1995 – –
1995-1996 Taiwan; India Chou Ju-hsi; Rajehwari Ghose
1996-1997 – –
1997-1998 China Yeung Chun Tong
1998-1999 China Wang Wen-jian
1999-2000 – –
2000-2001 – –
2001-2002 – –
2002-2003 – –
2003-2004 – –
2004-2005 – –
2005-2006 Japan Koon Yeewan
2006-2007 Taiwan Koon Yeewan & Roslyn Hammers
2007-2008 – –
2008-2009 Japan Koon Yeewan
2009-2010 – –
2010-2011 Shanghai Roslyn Hammers
2011-2012 Taiwan; Macau; Japan Opher Mansour; Opher Mansour; Koon Yeewan
2012-2013 Shanghai Roslyn Hammers
2013-2014 United Kingdom Koon Yeewan and Roslyn Hammers
2014-2015 Spain Opher Mansour
2015-2016 – –
2016-2017 – –
2017-2018 Macau; Beijing Opher Mansour; Vivian Sheng
2018-2019 Korea; Shanghai; Netherlands Koon Yeewan; Vivian Sheng; Opher Mansour
2019-2020 – –
2020-2021 – –

[The writing was first published on 13 August 2019, in celebration of the Department’s 40th anniversary]