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Ann COXON

Ann COXON Ann Coxon is a freelance curator, writer and researcher with a long-standing interest and specialism in textile-based practices. Formerly Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, Coxon curated the landmark exhibitions Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope (2022) and Anni Albers (2018) as well as numerous other exhibitions and displays at Tate Modern, including Inherited Threads (2022), Dorothea Tanning (2019), Beyond Craft (2017), Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture (2015) and Saloua Raouda Choucair (2013). Coxon is the […]

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Gözde İLKIN

Gözde İLKIN Based in Istanbul, Turkish artist Gözde İlkin works with found domestic textiles that reflect social identity and processes. Her motifs and drawings on fabric depict today’s cultural information, political and social relationships, and gender issues. İlkin’s embroidery and painting focus on the body as an experimental or affective landscape. She has recently started to use drawing, stitching and sound to design fabrics as stages, tracing nature to discover ways of belonging as well as the healing and transforming […]

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HU Yinping

HU Yinping Born in Sichuan, Hu Yinping currently lives and works in Beijing. She defines her art as a state between ‘event’ and ‘work’, implying a deep connection between her artistic practice and real life. Hu often labels the medium of her works as ‘event’, and her works are usually durational or even ongoing. Hu earned her MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been extensively shown in solo exhibitions in venues such as Ming Contemporary […]

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Aluaiy KAUMAKAN (WU Yu-Ling)

Aluaiy KAUMAKAN (WU Yu-Ling) Aluaiy Kaumakan (Wu Yu-Ling) was born in the Paridrayan tribe of Paiwan – a Taiwanese indigenous people in Sandimen Township, Pingtung County. As the daughter of the tribe’s leader, Kaumakan inherits the responsibility to protect the heritage of her people, who were forced to relocate due to Typhoon Morakot in 2009. Trained as a jewellery designer in her early career, she started to use Paiwan weaving and knitting techniques and her solid textile knowledge to create […]

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Cian DAYRIT

Cian DAYRIT Cian Dayrit is an interdisciplinary artist from the Philippines who investigates notions of space, power and identity as they are represented and reproduced in monuments, museums, maps and other institutionalised media. Through textile, installations, archival interventions and community-based workshops, Dayrit’s work responds to different marginalised communities, encouraging a critical reflection on colonial and privileged perspectives. While informed by the colonial experience of the Philippines, his work nonetheless defies being tied to a specific position or location. Instead, his work and […]

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OH Haji

OH Haji Haji Oh is a Korean artist born and raised in Japan, now living in Australia. She utilises textile-making techniques, such as weaving, dyeing and unravelling, as well as photography, cyanotype, text and sound in her work. Drawing on her background as a third-generation Zainichi Korean (a Korean resident in Japan), she creates artworks that give expression to the untold memories – silent memories – of women and unnamed individuals. She explores the concept of ‘post-memory’ by sharing experiences […]

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YEE I-Lann, Roziah Binti JALALID, Julitah KULINTING

YEE I-Lann A native of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Yee I-Lann’s creative practice spans photo-media, video and textile, engaging with the complex legacies of colonial histories, global connections and socio-political dynamics of Southeast Asia. She earned her BA from the University of South Australia in 1992 and subsequently moved to Kuala Lumpur in 1994, where she became actively involved in the local art and film scenes. Since returning to her hometown in 2017, Yee has been collaborating with weavers from both […]

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Rice Brewing Sisters Club

Rice Brewing Sisters Club Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC) is an artist collective established in 2018 based on the members’ mutual interest in the processes of ‘social fermentation’ as an artistic form. With an experimental and participatory practice encompassing visual arts, performance, creative writing, oral history, ecological thinking and ‘auntie’s wisdom’, RBSC seeks to build sustainable relationships and synergy to co-create shared visions of the future.   The work of RBSC has been showcased internationally, such as at Kaohsiung Museum […]

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Agnes Lin

Agnes Lin Agnes Lin established the Osage group of companies in 1989. Osage Merchandising Limited specialises in apparel and accessories sourcing and works throughout. In 2004 she established Osage Gallery and the Osage Art Foundation, both of which were able to draw on the merchandising businesses’ established network of contacts and its wide experience in logistics, shipping, supply chain management, compliance auditing, quality assurance and IT management to help ensure the safe, reliable and efficient movement of works of art […]

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Lee Chi Wai

Lee Chi Wai Lee Chi Wai is a lighting designer who works predominantly in the dance industry. He is a former member of the City Contemporary Dance Company technical team. His recent works include Diary VII: The Story Of…… by Mui Cheuk Yin, The Centre by Chou Shu Yi and Cheng Chih Chung, Almost 55 by Chou Shu-yi and So Low by Lai Tak Wai.

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