Bio:

​Tabby Li is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in London. Her background spans over 11 years working in film, television, fashion, opera, and theatre as an award-winning Hair, Make-up, and Prosthetics Artist and Designer (Film Olympiad Award 2024, British Short Film Award 2024 — Best Hair & Make-up Design).

 

​In 2024, she participated in an eight-month, Arts Council England-funded practice development project, supported by Gasworks and Kupfer Gallery, where she was mentored by artists and independent curators, including Rosa Tyhurst, Abel Shah, Orphée Kashala, Jesse Scott, and Menting Zhuo.

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Her formal education includes a Master’s degree in Fine Art (Distinction) from City & Guilds of London Art School where she was awarded a fully funded bursary and material stipend, a BA (Hons) degree in Hair, Make-up, and Prosthetics for Performance (2:1) from the University of the Arts London, and a VTCT Diploma in Theatrical, Special Effects, Hair & Media Make-up (Distinction) from West Thames College.

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​Artist Statement: ​

I'm a Chinese-Irish, London-based artist working across sculpture, video, and installation. My work engages with the body as an encounter—an ecology of forms configured as a whole, that is neither specific to one form nor referential to a particular state of the body. My goal is to uncover networks of information that offer unexpected and self-effacing connections within the everyday — questioning presumed function, the ephemeral body, the overlooked, the discarded, and the uncanny.

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The foundation of my practice revolves around everyday materiality, working with elements produced through various casting techniques alongside found, discarded forms—objects that permeate the commonplace yet exist in peripheral spaces. Within the work, I examine the objects’ potential of transmutation and ability to exist beyond function and everyday banality. I look for symbiotic relationships between the components, and seek to create a bound apparatus that form an internal logic.