Loraine Wong (Wong Lok-Wan)

Loraine Wong (Wong Lok-Wan) is a Hong Kong-based curator, designer, and letterpress printmaker affiliated with Hong Kong Open Printshop (HKOP), where she serves as curator. She graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, majoring in Visual Communication, and trained under letterpress master Mr. Lam On — she is recognised as one of the very few young movable-type print artists in Hong Kong, working in an analog tradition that has largely been superseded by digital print but is preserved at HKOP through its archive and ongoing apprenticeship.

Wong's artistic philosophy emphasises traditional craftsmanship merged with contemporary visual elements. She values letterpress's tactile qualities — the ink that congeals on the paper, the texture of cotton paper, and the impression made by metal type — as sustained alternatives to digital printing. Her further training includes graduate studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she developed expertise across graphic, exhibition, and digital design alongside the analog letterpress practice.

In her curatorial role at Hong Kong Open Printshop, Wong has dedicated more than eight years to the world of art and culture within non-profit organisations, with her professional trajectory evolving from project management to curatorship. Her curatorial programming includes exhibition design, digital experience design, education programmes, and the management of HKOP's print-art-heritage projects. Hong Kong Open Printshop, founded in 2000, is the city's first non-profit open printshop, run by artists, and offers printmaking tutorials, online demonstrations, and an extensive archive of printmaking resources.

The Hong Kong Print Art Contemporary online catalogue lists Wong (Wong Lok Wan, Loraine) as a represented artist, though as of 2026 her individual artist collection page on the Print Art Contemporary Shopify storefront shows zero products available — typical of letterpress practitioners whose output is small-edition and event-tied rather than continuously inventoried in retail catalogues. Her published letterpress practice is mainly visible through HKOP's exhibition documentation, the POP UP PRESS series collaborations, and HKOP's 'Print Art Contemporary' programming.

For Hanga's purposes, Loraine Wong qualifies as a verified Hong Kong letterpress printmaker through her HKOP curator role, Visual Communication training at Hong Kong Polytechnic, postgraduate study at Goldsmiths, and presence in the HKOP/Print Art Contemporary artist roster. Her output is small in volume relative to the larger HKOP printshop community and is best understood as a print-curatorial-craft hybrid practice, where letterpress is the principal personal medium and curation is the principal public-facing role.