Born 1962 in London and educated in England and India, Louise Soloway Chan is a visual storytelling
artist trying to capture an essence of the rapidly changing city. Louise’s works had been
exhibited extensively in institutions such as Royal Academy of Art, Whitechapel Gallery and
National Portrait Gallery in London. Ever since she moved to Hong Kong, Louise was constantly
drawn to picture the ordinary lives: men in suits rushing off to work, helpers getting children to
school, and many silent voices and invisible hands that are the life force and backbone that keeps the
city functioning. Observing & recording daily life has been a private passion of Louise which was
brought into public view by the MTR. In 2011, the MTR Corp commissioned Louise Soloway Chan
to create a huge work consisting of 12 bas-reliefs about lives and traditional shop businesses in Hong
Kong.

This work is one of the original acrylic panels from the MTR piece.

生於1962 年，Louise Soloway Chan 陳路思在倫敦出生長大，隨後在英國巴斯學院及印度巴羅
達藝術學院（Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts）接受藝術教育。陳路思是一位習慣用視覺藝術敘事
的藝術家，她喜歡用作品記錄快速變化的都市。陳路思的作品曾在多個重要藝術機構展覽，
其中包括英國皇家藝術學院、倫敦白教堂畫廊以及英國國家肖像畫廊。自從她搬來香港居住
以後，她便時常在她的作品中捕捉普通人的生活狀態：身著西裝行跡匆匆趕著上班的男士，
帶孩子上學的幫傭，以及許多沉默卻努力生活的人們 —— 他們是這個城市順利運作的重要
的勞動力，卻鮮有機會被人注視。對日常生活的觀察與記錄是陳路思個人的喜好，卻被港鐵
MTR 帶入公眾的視野。2011 年，港鐵MTR 委託陳路思為西營盤站創作一個大型公共藝術作
品，其中包含12 幅大型淺浮雕，描繪香港傳統的商業及普通人的生活。

這件作品為港鐵西營盤站公共藝術作品中的其中一部分設計原作。