24/01/2026
Boxes by Steve Harrison, 2009 - 2025
Box has been a constant companion to Steve’s practice of mug. What began as a practical container has gradually become a vessel for memory, movement, and meaning. Seen together for the first time, these boxes trace a journey not only through materials and places, but through ways of thinking about travel, care, and the rituals that accompany making.
From carton boxes, to leather cases, wooden chests, and finely engineered travel pieces, each box marks a moment of encounter. They carry the imprint of people met along the way—those who influenced, challenged, and supported his journey—while the passage of time reshapes their context. Once individual objects made in a particular year, they now read as a continuous narrative: a story of moving through the world with intention.
Travel has always shaped this work. Whether transporting tools, tea vessels, or personal essentials, the box becomes a quiet witness to daily rituals repeated across changing landscapes. It is both protective and revealing: an object that holds, contains, and frames experience. The act of opening and closing mirrors the rhythms of departure and return, familiarity and discovery.
The recent collaboration with Globe-Trotter represents a culmination of this long exploration. Translating decades of thinking about portability, craft, and ritual into a refined travel case, it brings together hand-making and industrial precision. Like earlier boxes, it is rooted in use rather than display—designed to move, to be handled, and to gather stories along the way.
Presented together, these works chart an evolving relationship with materials, places, and purpose. They show how a simple form, revisited again and again, can become a map of a life spent travelling—carrying not only objects, but moments, conversations, and the quiet continuity of practice.
12 Days of Christmas: Hong Kong by Steve Harrison
Exhibition Period: 13 Dec 2025 - 25 Jan 2026
Address: 31 Sun Chun Street Tai Hang Hong Kong
Opening hours: by appointment only
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