Sau Wah Sarah NG 吳秀華

Curator, University Museum and Art Gallery 香港大學美術博物館館長

Tel: 2241-5503
Email: sauwah@hku.hk
Office: University Museum and Art Gallery

BBA in Management of Organization Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; MA Art Conservation University College London; MPhil in History of Chinese Art The Chinese University of Hong Kong; PhD in History of Art University of Oxford

Dr. Sarah Ng is a historian of visual arts and material culture specializing in late imperial Chinese painting, calligraphy and ink rubbings. She rejoined the Hong Kong University Museum & Art Gallery (UMAG) as a curator for both historical and contemporary arts of China. The relationship and reinterpretation of the Chinese tradition in contemporary art practice is her primary area of scholarly interest. Her work also addresses collecting, connoisseurship, canon formation, workshop practices, art conservation, museum studies and bookplates. She lectures on these subjects and other areas of expertise internationally.

Chinese calligraphy, painting and rubbings, museology, art conservation and Hong Kong bookplates

Early Twentieth Century Collecting History of Chinese Art (ink rubbings) in Euro-America, the interpretation of the Chinese tradition in contemporary art practice using ink rubbings as a case study

Current Courses

ARTH2056 Museum studies workshop

ARTH4005 Art history internship