Collection 08 - Tammy Flynn Seybold Artworks Collection

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CA CHKL 08

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Tammy Flynn Seybold Artworks Collection

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23 paintings and drawings, 17 on frames
12 large-format photographs

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([1966] –)

Biographical history

Tammy Flynn Seybold is an American-born artist and conservator. She attained a Bachelor of Arts in Art History, Art and Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley in 1988; and completed a Master of Art Conservation, Paintings Conservation at Queen's University in 1990. Her intimate knowledge of artistic methods and techniques empower an active career in both museums and the private sectors. Following a few years of distinguished internship and fellowship in National Gallery of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she started her own business, TFS Conservation, in 1997. It is her private practice that specialized in treatment of twentieth-century art, servicing museums and galleries in San Francisco, Toronto, and Hong Kong. She has also been the Contract Conservator of Paintings and Sculpture in the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2007–2011.
But conservation did not take away from her passion in artistic creation. She was heavily influcened by San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement and enjoyed working with challenging materials such as gold leaf, rare pigments, and found objects. Her works emphasized exquisite and the emphemeral nature of the world surrounding us. She has exhibited in Lisbon, Toronto, Hong Kong, Whistler, and Vancouver. She currently lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Archival history

The artworks were created by Tammy Flynn Seybold in 2014 to 2015. The artworks relocated with her, from Hong Kong to Vancouver, BC in 2015. The works were partially brought in by Seybold and her husband, and partially shipped to the Library across December 2025 to March 2026.

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Scope and content

This archives comprises paintings and photographs that are artistic representation of social current of Hong Kong in 2014. It illustrated the look of the city and the mentality of its people at the time, through the artistic lens of Tammy as an expat in Hong Kong.

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Further accurals are expected.

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Arranged according to the materiality of the artworks, and then chronologically by date of creation.

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Open for use by appointment.

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      HKA.2026.07

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      AtoM records created March 15, 2026 — Jason Kahei Wong (Archivist).

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