Category : Artists

Slow Art Collective Slow Art Collective is a Melbourne-based collaborative practice that has been creating large-scale, participatory environments since 2009. Currently led by Chaco Kato and Dylan Martorell, the collective focuses on process-driven art that integrates sustainability, DIY culture and community collaboration, transforming public spaces into immersive sites for sensory engagement. Grounded in the ethics of ‘slow art’, they prioritise exchanges of value that are unhurried and mindful, rather than fast and transactional. Through shared making, they blur the boundaries […]

CHAN Wai Lap Based in Hong Kong, Chan Wai Lap’s practice spans painting, drawing, publishing and installation. Particularly known for documenting public swimming pools, Chan draws inspiration from personal experiences, memories and everyday happenings, investigating the power dynamics and interrelationships between public and private, self and others. Chan received his BA in Visual Communication from Birmingham City University. He has been featured in solo exhibitions at venues such as the Hong Kong Museum of Art (2023); Art Central, Hong Kong […]

Agus Nur Amal PM Toh Agus Nur Amal, also known as PM Toh, was born in 1969 in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. As a storyteller, he uses everyday objects and imaginative theatrical methods to create interactive performances. His work often draws on mythology and real-life challenges such as social issues, natural disasters and climate change. Agus received his diploma and bachelor’s degree from the Jakarta Institute of Arts in 1990 and 2000 respectively, and his theatrical journey began in 1992. Since […]

Aziza KADYRI Based in London, Uzbek visual artist Aziza Kadyri works across textiles, installation, performance, sculpture and creative technologies. She co-founded Qizlar, a grassroots collective rooted in intersectionality and social change. Kadyri examines themes of social invisibility, displacement, decolonisation and identity formation, particularly for Central Asian women. Using textiles and costume, she reimagines cultural heritage and traditional narratives through artificial intelligence, machine learning and extended reality, weaving together speculative stories that preserve memory, resist erasure, and contribute to alternative mythmaking. […]

WATANABE Shiori Born in Tokyo in 1984, Watanabe Shiori grounds her practice in close observation of extinction, protection and exclusion among species, the nation state as an ecosystemic community, and the relations between humans and nature embedded in folk customs and ritual practices. Her representative installation sans room links water tanks cultivating plants, fish and bacteria collected from the Japanese Imperial Palace – an early playground for the artist – to form an artificial, circulating ecosystem. Watanabe received her BFA […]

HAN Sang A Han Sang A is an artist currently based in Seoul. Working primarily with meok (traditional Korean ink) on cotton fabric, she creates soft sculptures and layered paintings that explore states of mind and existence. The tactile surfaces and sculptural forms of her work develop into a distinct visual language – at once rounded yet sharp, muted yet intense. Han has obtained her BA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University in Seoul. Her work has been […]

Milay MAVALIW Milay Mavaliw is a Puyuma artist born in Katatipul Village, Taitung, in 1962. Spanning painting, fibre art and installation, her practice is shaped by the visual memories and colour traditions of her community. Drawing from ceremonial headpieces and earth-toned palettes, she has developed a chromatic language rooted in Indigenous life. Since 2019, she has focused on crochet, weaving and hemp-rope soft sculpture, creating layered surfaces with saturated blues, grounded blacks and earthy yellows that evoke both restraint and […]

Marcos KUEH Born in Sarawak in 1995, Marcos Kueh lives and works in the Netherlands. His textile-based practice draws on Borneo’s ancestral weaving traditions to explore themes of identity, labour and globalisation. Growing up in post-colonial Malaysia, Kueh interrogates how the developing nation is portrayed through different narratives, reconciling these representations and his lived experience through weaving. His latest research examines diasporic labour and factory-floor stories within textile production, inspired by his own experience in European industries as an ethnic Chinese […]

Liu Xuan Born in Jiangxi, Liu Xuan is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist based in London, Shanghai and Nanchang. Her studio work largely focuses on analogue and digital-audio technologies, sculpture, video, performances and event productions. She works individually and collaboratively to explore the merging of noumenal experience and fiction, negotiating between the human body’s sensory epistemology and the development of sound technology, contemporary spiritualism and ritual, expanded theatre and improvisation. Liu received her MFA at Chelsea College of Arts (UAL) in […]

KIM Sajik Kim Sajik currently lives and works in Kyoto. She develops her artistic practice through staged photography, drawing inspiration from her fluctuating physical and spiritual identity as a member of the Korean diaspora in Japanese society. She visualises personal and collective memory by creating her own mythological narratives. Alongside her career as a photographer, Kim devotes herself to the disciplined practice of traditional Korean dance under the guidance of Korean dancers Kim Iruchi and Han Soomoon. Her practice confronts […]