Oliver Giles

Dec 10, 2024 | prestigeonline.com | Oliver Giles

The 10 Best Family-Friendly Charter Yachts in Asia Planning a special vacation in Asia? There are some amazing family-friendly charter yachts in Asia now on the market, available to cruise in some incredible yachting destinations. Whether you’re looking for a charter yacht in Singapore, Thailand, or Malaysia, we’ve researched the best family-friendly charter yachts in the region.

Apr 20, 2024 | theguardian.com | Oliver Giles

Tucked away in a sleepy suburb of Canberra, opposite an Officeworks and behind a pet shop, is a nondescript, boxy building. But walk through its doors and you’ll find yourself in the Baso, one of Canberra’s most beloved music venues and host of some of the capital’s wildest nights, when rock and metal legends such as US star Phil Anselmo, Ukrainian band Jinjer and Australian group Wolfmother have taken to the stage.

Apr 17, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Oliver Giles

For decades, Buddhist philosophy has shaped Wallace Chan’s life and art. The jeweller-turned-artist even lived as a Buddhist monk for six months in the 1990s, a period that he says has inspired much of his subsequent work, which ranges from delicate pieces of jewellery to monumental sculptures that often feature serene, Buddha-like faces. So the setting of Chan’s latest exhibition might surprise his fans.

Mar 26, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Oliver Giles

In the film programme of Art Basel Hong Kong this year, the artist Chan Ka-kiu is showing Back & Forth & Back, a roughly six-minute-long video that follows an anthropomorphic horse who dies and wakes up in heaven. The horse is surprised — it thought it was going to hell — and so embarks on a journey to find the god who brought them here. It travels for miles, finds the grandest palace in heaven, steps inside to meet its god and finds… an ape.

Mar 22, 2024 | zolimacitymag.com | Oliver Giles

Hong Kong artist Wong Ping has developed a signature style – and it has brought him global success. Wong makes provocative psychedelic animations featuring lewd storylines that slowly reveal themselves to be metaphors for human behaviour, politics and society.