Angelica Lee Sinje is a woman of many talents.
The Malaysia-born actress and pop singer, who starred alongside Shu Qi in the recent Netflix revenge horror, The Resurrected, showed her skill on the other side of the camera in 2023 when she co-produced the critically acclaimed Malaysian crime drama Abang Adik.
But in a quiet gallery in Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan neighbourhood, she revealed yet another, lesser-known talent: for painting.
Her solo exhibition at 13a New Street Art Gallery, called “Childtopia”, could not be more different in mood to The Eye, the 2002 horror for which she won various best actress awards, or The Resurrected, in which she plays a grieving and vengeful mother.
Instead, her paintings serve up a dose of warm, sickly-sweet nostalgia. The Chinese title of the exhibition, “Tong But Lut”, is named after the chewy Cantonese glutinous rice dessert.
