7a Project Space Wakefield, UK, September 2023

‘Hong Kong Fireworks’ are a series of large-scale neon glass sculptural hangings, created and presented for a one-off music event at 7A project space (Wakefield), alongside a music and performance event with Swedish band ‘Weils’, fellow artist Richard Wheater, and performers from CAPA college.

“..’Fireworks’ are a tangible interpretation of an explosion held in time”

The project was a spectacular example of creative collaboration and meaning, seen by not only a local but national audience. The neon fireworks were inspired by April’s late grandfather, Eric Key, who resided in Hong Kong from 1960-80s. An avid photographer and documentarian, his vast archive was a great source of inspiration for this project. As well as the usual family chronicles, he was intrigued by locality, regularly pointing his lens at the ever changing landscape of HK and its long standing traditions. Given the opportunity and space to produce large-scale installations, she wanted to choose specific inspirations from the archive associated with ‘movement.’ Responding to still images, and that feeling of ‘wonder’ we momentarily experience whilst observing firework displays. Thus transforming them back into the present, capturing that moment in time in tangible form.

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