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MobArt’s online store gives local artists a space to shine

The new website sells affordable art from Hong Kong-based artists including Anita Cheng, Elsie Wong and Emily Eldridge

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Published: 9:30am, 12 Aug 2016Updated: 9:30am, 12 Aug 2016

A swing around the city’s art galleries shows it’s international artists that get all the love while home-grown talent often struggles to shine through. MobArt wants to change that. With the launch of its online art shop, it aims to give local creatives a platform on which to promote and sell their work.

“It’s also about boosting Hong Kong’s image as a vibrant community for art,” says MobArt founder Steph Chung Yue-ching. “Our ambition is to promote art as a lifestyle and act as the bridge between artists and those who value and seek creativity.”

MobArt started out in 2009 as a mobile gallery curating art exhibitions in public spaces. Artists featured on the website include London-based Elsie Wong Nga-sze, who was born and raised in Hong Kong, and United States-born Emily Eldridge, who lives in the SAR and whose quirky pop art-style prints have a “girly” appeal. Those nostalgic for traditional Hong Kong snacks will love Anita Cheng Kit-yan’s Cha Chang Tang series.

Part of Anita Cheng’s Cha chang tang series.

The online shop offers a wide range of limited-edition art prints, photographs and sculptures as well as drawings and paintings at prices to suit a range of budgets.