Contemporary Qinghua

The real thing.

Radically reimagined.

Trained dynasty by dynasty under China's national-level masters in Jingdezhen — now pushing blue-and-white into territory the ancients never saw.

Learn it here. Or let us take you to the source.

Ceramics

From Michelin tables

to gallery walls.

Functional ware trusted by Hong Kong's finest kitchens. Sculptural work that belongs nowhere near a shelf.

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Art as spiritual practice.

Rooted in theology and the contemplative tradition — these workshops and retreats use clay, ink and floristry not to make things, but to unmake you. Gently.

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靈修不是甚麼都不做。
是知道不用被世界拖著走。

如果你也渴望這種安靜，DM我「靜」。

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Sanctuary for Your Soul

#messageinadish_by_channinglee #messageinadish #sanctuaryforyoursoul #青花 #Qinghua #ceramics #sabbath #mindful #spiritual #ceramics #pottery #HK #art #meditation #靜修 #靈修

有學生問：做花器有速成班嗎?
我：沒有。

泥壓得不夠會塌；乾得不透會裂；
放在窰中燒兩次，每次一整��天.....全部都是要用時間去熬煉。

用心用時間做的事，是看得出分別的。
做人也一樣。

Message In A Dish
Sanctuary for Your Soul

#messageinadish_by_channinglee #messageinadish #sanctuaryforyoursoul #青花 #Qinghua #ceramics #sabbath #mindful #spiritual #ceramics #pottery #HK #art

喜歡做泥塑，享受與泥土的對話。

週六下午。泥。釉。安靜。
一段不被打擾的時間。

Message In A Dish
Sanctuary for Your Soul

#messageinadish_by_channinglee #messageinadish #sanctuaryforyoursoul #青花 #Qinghua ceramics sabbath mindful spiritual ceramics pottery HK

見世界，總要加添很多門面的東西；
但對著青花和泥，我們要做的，卻是卸下：卸下title、卸下光環、卸下很多無必要的重擔。

每一筆釉、每一下和泥的接觸，都是單純的默觀──見人見自己見天地。

週六下午。泥。釉。安靜。
一段不被打擾的時間。

Message In A Dish
Sanctuary for Your Soul

#messageinadish_by_channinglee #messageinadish #sanctuaryforyoursoul #青花 #Qinghua #ceramics #sabbath #mindful #spiritual #ceramics #pottery #HK

Art doesn't happen in the frame. It happens in the pause between your breath and theirs, when you both stop at the same piece without words.

What did you come to Art Basel searching for, and what found you instead?

#artbasel #artbaselhongkong #channinglee #messageinadish #hongkong

Went to Art Central VIP Preview.

Somehow ended up getting Samantha Ko Hoi Ling to take a photo of me.

She was the nicest about it too. Just walked up and asked — zero hesitation from her.

Thank you @sammkoling 🙏🏻
(Stay till the end for the post credit scene 🎬)

Some pieces this year really made me stop and sit with them for a while. Art always hits different in person.

📍Art Central 2026
🎟 Public days starts from tomorrow — go see it.

#artcentral #hongkong #hongkongart #channinglee

| SEE WHAT THE SYSTEM MISSES | @HKU

Honoured to be invited by The University of Hong Kong FemSTEM as keynote speaker on March 21, 2026. As a contemporary Qinghua (blue-and-white porcelain) artist, I addressed female students in STEM on how their skillset opens doors far beyond traditional tech careers.

That invitation itself tells a story. When a leading engineering faculty turns to an artist to expand their students' horizons, something has shifted in how institutions understand innovation.

Drawing on the World Economic Forum's 2030 skills, my core message was simple: The future doesn't belong to people only good at technology, nor people only good at dreaming. It belongs to those who can code — and see what the code is missing.

To bridge the gap between high art and high performance, I grounded the session in tactile and philosophical frameworks:
🔹 The Garlic Experiment: A tactile opening to awaken sensory awareness.
🔹 Qinghua (Blue & White): Encoding meaning and layered intentionality that resists reduction.
🔹 Kintsugi: The principle that what has been broken and repaired with care becomes more valuable, not less.

The most rewarding moment? Hearing from the FemSTEM student chairlady:
"As a mechanical engineering student, I think it's really important for us to consider all the people, not just get lost in making the technology better."

This is the work I do — through keynotes, experiential workshops, and long-term institutional collaborations. If your organisation is asking how to cultivate this human-centric capacity and cognitive resilience in your people, I welcome the conversation.

Let's connect.
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Keynotes & workshops for institutions and corporates. Link in bio.

#MessageInADish #hku #hongkonguniversity #channinglee #KeynoteSpeaker #FutureSkills #HumanCentric #Innovation #CreativeLeadership #femstem #messageinadish_by_channinglee @femstem.hku

Why did an artist speak at Hong Kong University full of engineers and scientists?

Because the future doesn't belong to people only good at technology, nor people only good at dreaming. It belongs to those who can code — and see what the code is missing.

We live in a world obsessed with upgrading systems, algorithms, and efficiency. But what happens when we get so lost in making the technology better that we forget the humans using it?

My message to these brilliant future engineers was simple: See what the system misses.

I opened with a tactile experiment of peeling garlic. I drew on two frameworks from my ceramic practice — the layered intentionality of Qinghua brushwork, and the Kintsugi principle that what's been broken and repaired with care becomes more valuable, not less.

Afterwards, the student chairlady wrote:
"As a mechanical engineering student I think it's really important for us to consider all the people, not just get lost in making the technology better."

Thank you HKU for having me.

Seeing these analytical minds resonate with an artist’s perspective gives me so much hope for the future they will build.

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Keynotes & workshops for institutions and corporates. Link in bio.

#MessageInADish #hku #hongkonguniversity #channinglee #KeynoteSpeaker #FutureSkills #HumanCentric #Innovation #CreativeLeadership #femstem #messageinadish_by_channinglee @femstem.hku

Same table. Same ink. Same brush.
What you paint is entirely yours.

青花瓷體驗 | Team Building |
私人及企業預約
DM for private & corporate bookings

#MessageInADish #青花 #香港青花 #qinghua #HKqinghua #blueandwhite #blue #art #artworkshop #非遺 #hongkonger #messageinadish_by_channinglee

【景德鎮 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 + 青花繪體驗】

✍️ 𝑺𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌 🔗 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒊𝒐 𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑𝒔://𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒂.𝒄𝒐𝒎/𝒂𝒛𝒚𝒎𝒎𝒅𝟑𝒂 (3.14) 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐬://𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐚.𝐜𝐨𝐦/𝟖𝐝𝐜𝟖𝐟𝐝𝐠𝐩 (3.21)

在我們 4 月出發景德鎮「朝聖」之前，Message In A Dish 先帶你用 90 分鐘，建立真正的鑑賞眼光。

🔹 解密市場：策展人 Channing Lee 親自拆解景德鎮的收藏門道——為何這裡「水很深」。
🔹 鑑賞青花：賞析殿堂級大師秦秋艷老師的功架與青花造詣。
🔹 上手實戰：在瓷坯上親手繪製青花——非紙上作畫可比。
🔹旅程預覽：搶先了解 4 月「景德鎮 Masterclass Immersion」的獨家行程。

活動詳情
🔹 時間： 3月14日11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, 或 3月21日 2.30PM - 4PM
🔹 地點： Message In A Dish・觀塘
🔹 程度：適合任何人
🔹 語言：廣東話 (附英文PowerPoint)
🔹 費用：
𝑻𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 1 — 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 體驗票　𝑯𝑲$𝟑𝟎𝟎(含導賞、青花釉料及素坯)
或
𝑻𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 2 — 𝑰𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝑫𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕　𝑯𝑲$𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎
(全數抵扣團費：含4月景德鎮 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑰𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 訂金，送𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 門票）

*如最終未能成行，訂金可全額退還。
**如需燒素坯，費用另計。

________________
𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑼𝒑:
景德鎮 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝑰𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏

四日三夜，沉浸在青花的源頭。Message In A Dish 帶你直入旅行團去不到的大師陣地。

🔹殿堂大師：秦秋艷
景德鎮非遺傳統青花代表性傳承人、國家一級技師、大學邀約客席講師、
作品獲內地、日本及希臘博物館收藏。
🔹策展人：Channing Lee
秦老師入室弟子、當代青花藝術家、前時裝雜誌總編、Message In A Dish創辦人。
🔹體驗：大師親授示範 · 私訪工作室 · 瓷片鑑賞
🔹享受：市中心精品酒店（獨立房）· 兩餐𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲
🔹𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔年𝟒月𝟐𝟒 – 𝟐𝟕日（𝟒日𝟑夜）
🔹𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭：名額有限，首𝟓名報名者可獲 𝐇𝐊$𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎 藝術津貼

詳細行程與費用將於 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 活動中正式發布。
查詢 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐀𝐩𝐩: 𝟓𝟓𝟗𝟏-𝟐𝟏𝟑𝟐

#景德鎮 #jingdezhen #masterclass #art #blueandwhite #qinghua #青花 #travel #chineseart #messageinadish #channinglee

𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤 & 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 — 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐘𝐮𝐚𝐧 𝐐𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐮𝐚

An incredible day at the studio.

王婷老師由講解到親身示範元青花技法，選料、調墨、落筆——近距離感受大師如何將700年前的技藝活現眼前，青花不只是青花。

我們的青花學生，有初學者，也有香港的資深藝術家——當一個人願意坐低做返學生，這種專注，比任何title都動人。

At Message In A Dish, we believe in learning without ceiling.

This is what we're building. A place where craft has no hierarchy.

More programmes coming. Stay close.

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#MessageInADish #王婷 #元青花 #YuanQinghua #ArtistTalk #chineseart #Masterclass #BlueAndWhite #景德鎮 #Jingdezhen #青花瓷 #exhibition #messageinadish_by_channinglee

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