HE Yongdi Born and residing on Chongming Island, Shanghai, He Yongdi is the founder of the Yongdi Homespun Museum and serves as a guest professor for Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. She began learning to weave at about seven years old and started collecting Chongming homespun fabrics around 2000, amassing over 12,000 different styles. To pass down the local textile culture in a sustainable and impactful manner, she has collaborated with designers and design brands in China and abroad over […]
HAN Mengyun Born in 1989 in Wuhan, Han Mengyun grew up in Shenzhen and is currently based in London. She is a multidisciplinary artist, poet and mother whose work focuses on decolonising Eurasian cultural hybridisations from the Western perspective. Her practice also addresses intersectionality and the legacies of imperialism. Han weaves together personal and collective female subaltern experiences into a space of solidarity, engaging with their struggle for visibility and equal access in shaping global cultural discourse. Her research spans […]
Salima HAKIM Salima Hakim, born 1978 in Jakarta, is a university lecturer and visual artist. She explores issues of gender representation in history and archaeology, using stitching as both a technical and metaphorical approach in her work. She experiments with finding and merging scientific and fictional data to question how knowledge is produced, while also imagining and reproducing fictional historical narratives of women. In her current practice, she often works with embroidery and hand-stitched fabric, employing a historical descriptive approach […]
Ari BAYUAJI Born in Indonesia in 1975, Ari Bayuaji lived and worked in his home country before moving permanently to Canada in 2005, now dividing his time between Montreal and Bali. He is known for his art installations that incorporate found objects collected from around the world, which expose him to different cultural traditions. His works often address the overlooked artistic value in everyday life expressed through objects and their roles within society. Bayuaji graduated as a civil engineer and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]