Blythe Cheung
Credits to Jeanne Szego Travel Scholarship
Recent work turns to deep ecological time, ancient woodland, rewilding, species that persist on timescales longer than human record, alongside a long-standing interest in found and foraged material: driftwood, offcuts, things already discarded once, given a second life in sculptural form. This is close to what anthropologist Anna Tsing calls the art of noticing, an attention to what's already there rather than what needs importing, and it shapes what I make as much as what I choose not to bring in..
I hold an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2023), where I was awarded a Jeanne Szego Travel Scholarship, and I am a recipient of the Sarabande Emerging Artist Award and UAL's Net Zero and Sustainability Skills Fund. Recent exhibitions and presentations include Good Game Dev Fest (Goldsmiths University), Ocean Advocate Summit (Trinity Church, Bristol), Squeeze (Barbican Arts Group Trust), and Swords & Kisses (Staffordshire Street Gallery); my work is held in collections including Tai Kwun Museum of Contemporary Art, the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Hong Kong Literature House, and Hong Kong Baptist University.
I currently co-chair UAL's Climate Emergency Network, coordinating sustainability initiatives across the university's six colleges, and work as a specialist technician in Fine Arts at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, at the intersection of digital fabrication, physical making and material sustainability.
I am the art lead & co-founder of Hermit House, an impact-driven indie game studio creating games inspired by and for nature. Our current project, A Home Below, lets you explore a house lost to rising seas as a hermit crab, a research-driven approach to building care and connection through play.