How We Hold

Degree Show - 2026. Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

Informed by my Australian–Singaporean heritage and my recent experience of becoming a mother, this body of work explores the hybrid spaces that emerge when cultures and identities overlap. Growing up between Australia and Asia has shaped my understanding of home and belonging, as well as the unsettledness that often accompanies migrant and mixed-race experiences. 

These works hold and attend to histories and stories that are precious, fragile or have historically been overlooked: the Dutch and British colonial spice trades in Southeast Asia, histories of textile craft- including Singaporean Peranakan textiles, my lived experience of migration, mixed-race identity and matrescence, and the textile traditions of the women in my family.

List of works: 

Holding, Marking, 2026 Patchwork quilt made from found fabric, Singaporean batik, clothing worn pre-pregnancy that no longer fits me, bedsheets I slept on during the first month postpartum, wool batting, embroidery thread, pins.  Frame made from Indonesian Meranti timber, concrete blocks, bronze wedges. Frame: 240 x 230 x 60 cm, Fabric: 200 x 225 cm

After The Body, 2026, Acrylic and oil on unstretched canvas, embroidery thread, 235 x 145 cm

Muted, 2026, Acrylic and oil on photocopied paper, 47 x 60 cm 

Redacted I, II, III,  2026, Reclaimed Burmese Teak plinths, my hands cast in white pigmented jesmonite, nutmegs cast in bronze, Variable dimensions

My Grandmother’s Quilts, circa 1990, Quilts made by my grandmother

Photography by Studio Reverse Magic and Yang-En Hume