Hayes Ng

Hayes Ng is a community-based artist, educator, and PhD researcher. He is a lecturer at the MA Illustration Animation at Kingston University School of Art. His practice lies in identity, cultural heritage, illustration research, community workshop, and art pedagogy.

NEWS

31/8/2025 12:26

River Culture Festival -
“Mapping Kingston Through Young Eyes”

As part of the Kingston 2025 River Culture Festival—“a celebration of the special role the river plays in the life of the borough, including a spectacular flotilla of boats travelling up the Thames”—I will facilitate a live, participatory drawing workshop where creation happens in real time during the event.

Visitors will be invited to collectively draw a large community map reflecting their personal connections to the river and its role in their lives. The process itself forms an experiment in participatory art-making—exploring how spontaneous, collective creation in a public setting can foster connection, reveal community narratives, and generate new understandings of place. The resulting map will stand as both an artwork and a record of shared experience.

Event
River Cultures Festival

Date
6 Sept 2025

Time
12nn – 9pm

Venue
From Ravens Ait to Canbury

12/7/2025 18:56

Athel’s Town:Saxon Encampment and Reenactment - “Mapping Kingston Through Young Eyes”

As part of Kingston 2025, “Travel back to the year 925 to Athel’s Town at Canbury Gardens Park,” where the park will be transformed into a Saxon encampment. This event will feature the first outdoor exhibition showcasing a collection of youth drawings that explore how young people perceive and experience their community.

In response to the exhibition, I will lead a live participatory workshop inviting visitors to co-create a large collective map that reflects how they see Kingston and what holds meaning for them. The creation will unfold in real time, becoming an evolving community archive. Through this process, the project examines how participatory art can foster connection, dialogue, and a shared sense of belonging within public spaces.

Event
Athel’s Town:Saxon Encampment and Reenactment

Date
26-27 Jul 2025

Time
10am – 8pm

Venue
Canbury Gardens, Lower Ham Road, Kingston KT2 5AC

12/6/2025 11:03

“Exploring Living Situations and Identities of Hong Kong Youth Immigrants in the UK”

I will present my research exploring the identities and lived experiences of young Hong Kong Chinese immigrants in Kingston upon Thames and surrounding areas. Using participatory illustration as a research method, the study investigates themes of belonging, cultural adaptation, and personal narrative, offering an innovative visual approach to migration research.

This presentation marks my first cross-disciplinary conference, bridging art and social science to highlight how creative methodologies can facilitate knowledge exchange and deepen our understanding of migration and community integration.

Event
Doing Research Differently: Methodological Creativity and Innovation in the Sociology of Families and Relationships
(Panel C)

Date
12/06/2025

Time
10am - 5pm

Venue
University of the West of England, Bristol

16/4/2025 16:18

In collaboration with Kingston Museum, this Kingston 2025 project uses participatory art to connect local schools with the borough’s cultural and governmental communities. Through a series of more than ten creative workshops, over 800 students — including SEND children — will explore themes of identity, belonging, and community through art-making.

The project serves as a living archive of children’s voices and experiences in this moment in time, offering valuable insight into how young people perceive their environment and what they feel they need from their community. The findings will contribute to ongoing research exploring how participatory art can inform policy-making related to children and youth engagement.

The outcomes of this project will be exhibited locally as part of Kingston 2025 — keep an eye out for this meaningful celebration of creativity and community connection!

Event
Kingston 2025

Date
May - October 2025

Venue
Kingston Upon Thames

10/1/2025 14:53

Join us for a fun and relaxed session of game and art workshop, where we’ll explore how we connect with ourselves, each other, and the place we live in; and visualise together what kind of Kingston Upon Thames we want to live in.

Event
Happy Kingston "Happiness and Imagination workhop”

Date
15 Jan 2025

Time
10am – 1pm

Venue
Kingston Hive
47-49 Wood Street
KT1 1UJ