3812畫廊由許劍龍和Mark Peaker於2011年在香港創立，並於2018年拓展至英國倫敦聖詹姆斯萊德區。2021年，於香港中環雲咸街再開設另一全新畫廊空間。
3812 是一個擁有中英文化基因的品牌，分別於香港和倫敦的黃金地段開設畫廊。從2016年開始，3812代理旅居米蘭逾40年的戰後華人抽象藝術大師蕭勤，其畫作可見於全球各大博物館，包括香港M+及紐約大都會藝術博物館等；3812亦與多位水墨藝術家合作，包括香港的馮永基，其作品被美國舊金山亞洲藝術博物館及香港故宮文化博物館等收藏；而南京藝術家劉國夫細膩獨特的油畫廣被重要私人及企業收藏，包括澳門美高梅主席典藏及上海美術館等。資深藝術市場作者Colin Gleadell曾稱讚3812主辦的藝術展覽獨具匠心，如「放眼東方：聖艾夫斯藝術家與佛教」，此展為探討東方哲學對英國現代藝術發展的影響與關連提供了一個新視覺。
3812聚焦代理現當代中國和英國藝術家，促進藝術文化的對話及交流。畫廊曾發表「東方根性 · 當代表現」的文化理念，致力推廣其藝術家的作品給公共及私人收藏，同時亦參與重要的藝博會，如倫敦巨匠臻藏藝術博覽會。並將透過與來自不同領域的當代藝術家合作，持續地實踐其策展與文化視野，如榮獲2019年AAC藝術中國年度藝術家大獎、駐北京藝術家趙趙，其作品曾於世界各地展出，包括紐約現代藝術博物館PS1，並於2022年在上海龍美術館舉行其大型個展；以及蜚聲國際的當代陶藝大師李鴻韋，其作品被芝加哥藝術博物館及大英博物館等國際級美術館收藏。
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With gallery spaces in the heart of Hong Kong and London, 3812 has both Europe and China written into its DNA. It represents Hsiao Chin, one of the major postwar painters whose work can be found in M+ and New York's Metropolitan and who lived in Milan for 40 years, and important ink artists including Raymond Fung from Hong Kong, whose works are in The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and Hong Kong Palace Museum as well as Nanjing based painter Liu Guofu, whose meticulous works are in Macau’s MGM Chairman’s Collection and Shanghai Art Museum; and it stages 'fascinating' exhibitions (to quote Colin Gleadell, the art market expert) such as 'Looking East: St Ives Artists and Buddhism' - exploring the debt of British art to Asian philosophy.Co-founded by Calvin Hui and Mark Peaker, 3812 represents and exhibits both modern and contemporary Chinese and British artists, fostering dialogues between them. The gallery regularly places their work in major public and private collections - and has participated in important art fairs such as Masterpiece. 3812 continues to develop its vision through representing contemporary artists of various genres such as the much-acclaimed Beijing-based Zhao Zhao, the Artist of the Year Award of Art China (AAC) in 2019, whose works were exhibited extensively, including in New York's MoMA PS1 and his one person show at the Long Museum in Shanghai in 2022 and the sensuous porcelains of Li Hongwei, collected by the Art Institute of Chicago and the British Museum among many other museums. -
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OUR NAME
People often ask what 3812 means? The name was born in 2010 in the French ski resort of Chamonix when founders Calvin Hui and Mark Peaker joined friends to ski the infamous La Vallée Blanche off-piste run. La Vallée Blanche route starts atop the Aiguille du Midi where the treacherous ‘arête’ ridge (3,812m) must be navigated. The descent that day, under the clear blue skies and towering peaks of Mont Blanc, as we carved our turns in the white powder of La Mer de Glace inspired our passion and imagination. From this inspiration and in homage to the challenges overcome, our name was decided, and 3812 Gallery was born. -
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