Wai Wai  慧惠

Illustrator / Artist / Instructor

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Born and raised in Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong. Wai Wai is a local illustrator, artist and silhouette artist. She founded Wai Wai Studio in 2022. She made illustrations, shutter painting, mural painting, teaching and hand cut silhouette projects with different parties, including Hang Seng Bank, CLP power Hong Kong Limited, New Balance, A. Lange & Söhne, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Highways Department, Urban Renewal Authority, Diptyque, Ferragamo, Hong Kong Red Cross, etc.
 

Wai Wai graduated from the City University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor's degree in Creative Media, majoring in Film. Her creative focus is on forging connections between people and community, artfully rendering the profound bonds and inherent goodness that exist between the two. In 2017, she published her first solo album “A Love Letter to Yau Ma Tei", which received an enthusiastic response and was reprinted a year later. Her latest album is “Rendezvous in Old Hong Kong: A Visual Journey through the City’s Historic Neighbourhoods”. Her solo exhibitions include “Rendezvous in Old Hong Kong” (Galerie
Koo, 2024) “Dreams Coming True" (Loupe, 2020), "Vintage Shops with Love" (Eslite Bookstore Tsim Sha Tsui, 2018), "Ten Thousand Miles Ahead (Hotel Stage, 2018), and “A Love Letter to Yau Ma Tei" (Kubrick, 2017). Wai Wai has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as "Beyond Fonts Beyond Signboards" (JCCAC, 2024), "Art That Moves You" (Affordable Art Fair, 2023), and "Art and City" (Times Square, 2022).
 

In June 2020, the mural painting done by Wai Wai at 618 Shanghai Street, Mongkok, was
shortlisted in the 2020 World Illustration Awards.

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香港土生土長的插畫家、藝術家和剪影師。

油麻地土生土長的香港插畫家、藝術家和剪影師，慧惠工房創辦人，她與多個品牌及單位合作插畫、鐵閘畫、壁畫、教學及剪影項目，曾合作的單位包括:恒生銀行、香港中華電力有限公司、路政署、市區重建局、香港紅十字會、香港話劇團、香港青年藝術協會、New Balance、A. Lange & Söhne、Ferragamo、
Tiffany & Co.、Emporio Armani、Diptyque等。

慧惠畢業於香港城市大學創意媒體文學士，主修電影。創作主力於連結人與社區，描繪兩者之間的關係和美善。二○一七年推出首本個人畫集《給油麻地的情書》，反應熱烈，一年後獲得再版。最新的畫集是 《香港人的浪漫老區約會地圖》。個人展覽包括「香港．約會地圖」(雍廷序畫廊，2024年)、「當夢不是夢」
(Loupe,2020年)、「講港情．繪小店」 (誠品生活尖沙咀店，2018 年) 」、「前面尚有一萬里」(登臺酒店,2018年)、「給油麻地的情書」 (Kubrick，2017年)等，慧惠亦參與多個聯展，包括 「拆牌道字」(JCCAC，2024年)、「藝動心弦」(Affordable Art Fair，2023年)、「藝與城」(時代廣場，2022年) 等。

二○二○年六月，慧惠於618上海街的壁畫被選為World Illustration Awards 2020的入圍作品。