Tabby Li

Born in the United Kingdom.

Lives & works in London.

I’m interested in how places inform us, and how we inform places. Through painting and sculpture, I attempt to reconfigure everyday objects and spaces, rendering the once familiar, unfamiliar. In doing so, I hope to create a margin that allows the viewer to re-encounter sets of ideas and presumptions in a new way. 

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I look at my relationship with public and private spaces, and explore the complexities of identity and my Chinese-Irish heritage. I try to translate and decode recognisable symbols and states into a tangible sensibility or mood within the work. 

My most recent body of work explores how a sense of presence and agency can be created. “Unfolded” (2024) is a work that probes the concept of constructed personhood, combining found, everyday objects with constructed latex body parts.

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Bio:

Tabby Li is a London-based artist, currently undertaking a Masters in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School. Her background is in Hair, Make-up and Prosthetics, having worked in Film, TV and Theatre for ten years, receiving the British Short Film Award for Best Hair and Make-up (2023).

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