Angelica Lee Sinje is a woman of many talents.
But in a quiet gallery in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood, she revealed yet another, lesser-known talent: for painting.
Angelica Lee Sinje is a woman of many talents.
But in a quiet gallery in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood, she revealed yet another, lesser-known talent: for painting.
Her solo exhibition at 13a New Street Art Gallery, called “Childtopia”, could not be more different in mood to The Eye, the 2002 horror for which she won various best actress awards, or The Resurrected, in which she plays a grieving and vengeful mother.

Instead, her paintings serve up a dose of warm, sickly-sweet nostalgia. The Chinese title of the exhibition, “Tong But Lut”, is named after the chewy Cantonese glutinous rice dessert.
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