A London-based Hong Kong artist couple in exile, Lumli Lumlong, were born into working-class families and studied fine art in France for five years. Their grotesque-style oil paintings reveal social realities and have been exhibited and collected by individuals internationally, including in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Berlin, New York, and others. They have published painting albums “Liberation of Art” and “The Hong Kong Metamorphosis”. All the works from the past ten-plus years have been co-created: the husband, Lumlong, paints the left side during the day shift, while the wife, Lumli, paints the right side during the night shift. Under the suppression of political freedoms, they fled Hong Kong to the UK in 2021.
In Hong Kong, they taught art for 15 years, including to students with autism and rehabilitated youths, and were oil painting lecturers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Now full-time artists in the UK, they collaborate with organisations like Amnesty International UK, Index on Censorship, Artvocate Gallery, and others. Their media coverage includes The Times and Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC Radio, AFP, ZDF, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Atlantic, PBS, Politiken, Sankei Shimbun, and others.
They believe social reality can be more “terrifying” than their paintings and that compassion is the ultimate expression of one’s imagination.
Exhibitions in London 2023