Supporting data for "A Self-inventor in a Modernising World: Ha Bik Chuen and Mid-twentieth Century Hong Kong Art"

Supporting data for "A Self-inventor in a Modernising World: Ha Bik Chuen and Mid-twentieth Century Hong Kong Art," including interview and interview transcript with Ha Bik Chuen's son, Alex Ha. This dissertation project is in-depth study of the work and life of Hong Kong artist Ha Bik Chuen (夏碧泉 1925-2009) and its relationship to the cultural modernity and artistic modernism emerging from mid-twentieth century Hong Kong. It examines the self-taught artist’s under-studied relief-like print matrices which he self-titled “motherboards” and his collagraph making practice in 1970s-1980s, his early sculptures in public and commercial spaces in 1960s-1970s and his abstract figurative sculptures in 1980s-2000s, and his little-known collage practice from 1958-2009. This interview with Alex Ha in particular sheds light on Ha's previously undocumented process of motherboard construction, and also touches on how Ha made some of his early relief sculptures in 1960s-1970s Hong Kong.