A residency at the Maison Flottante and in YiShu8 in October 2025.
Mae Chan lives and works between London and Hong Kong.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Art Basel (HK), Supper Club (HK), Exit Gallery (HK), HART (HK), Thrown (UK), London Craft Week (UK), Visual Arts Scotland (UK), Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop (UK), Young Space Views (UK), Kühlhaus (Berlin) and Søndre Green (Norway).
Recognition includes the ‘Developing Your Creative Practice’ Grant from the Arts Council England (2022), the ‘Air Green Residency’ Grant from the Norwegian Textile Artists’ Association (2022), the New Craftsmen Award at Cockpit Arts (2021), and as a finalist nominee for the 2021 Ingram Prize.
Mae Chan earned an MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art (UK) in 2021.
Chan’s sculptures, including “Liquid and solid” and “A strange family,” have been collected by private collectors in 2019 and 2021 respectively.
Artist’s career
Mae Chan is a multidisciplinary artist who fuses textile work, sculpture, and craft in an intentional act of self-reparation and sincerity. Rooted in poetic, narrative, and artisanal traditions, Mae Chan’s work invites viewers to connect empathically through affect-driven mediums.
She creates physical manifestations of the exact moments of subtle emotional shifts, in a process of bringing her closer to the self.
Her mixed-media sculptures reframe objects within different contexts of intimacy, boundaries, and judgement. Playing with the semiotics of form and touch, she dissects subtle emotional shifts, leveraging the human form as a foundational metaphor.
Partners
This residency is part of the cross-project initiated by Videotage - art center in Hong Kong, the cneai = and the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macao.
The artist will spend two weeks at the Maison Flottante of cneai = and two weeks at the Paris reception space of YiShu8 - art center between Paris and Beijing.