YU FANG, CHI

Yu Fang Chi is a Taiwan-born artist working within textile, silversmithing, sculpture, and installation. In her practice, Chi explores the processes of weaving and the position of human body. Grappling with contemporary issues such as environment, migration, emotional cognition, time’s flowing passage and more explorations of landscape and remoteness, Chi’s work uses processes of repetition, ephemerality and the interplay of light and shadow to open discussions around contemporary pressing topics.

Through various methods of exploring line and form – via wire, textile, traditional craft techniques, as well the use of immersive experience – Chi challenges the way weaving to operate and be presented. Subsequently her work becomes experiential not only in its physicality but also through a range of conceptual connections. Her installation has been part of ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE Festival, Hyphenated Projects, and DUE WEST Festival. She received Career Development Grants form Australia Council for the Arts in 2019, Test Sites Program from City of Melbourne in 2020, and International Cultural Exchange Grants from National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023. Her project Contemplate for Blacktown Domestic and Family Violence Memorial Garden received the Leo Kelly OAM Arts and Culture Award from the Local Government NSW. Chi has undertaken artist in residencies in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.

Chi gained a doctorate from RMIT University and received Diana Morgan Gold & Silversmithing Prize in 2018. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally. Since 2008 her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI in Japan, the International Handwerksmesse Munich TALENTE and SCHMUCK in Germany, The Gallery of Art Legnica in Poland, 6th Tallinn Applied Art Triennial in Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design,  Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial in World Art Museum,  Castlemaine Art Museum, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Craft Victoria, RMIT Gallery and Design Hub in Australia, and so on. Chi’s work is held in the collections of Gold Museum in Taiwan, Korea International Craft Biennale, RMIT University, and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. She currently lives and works in Hsinchu, Taiwan and Melbourne, Australia.

生於台灣高雄，藝術家紀宇芳的作品結合了纖維、金屬工藝、雕塑與裝置藝術。透過創作實踐探索編織過程中的行為、經驗以及身體與材質之間的微妙關係，她的作品時常圍繞著重複性、短暫性、以及光影間相互作用的效應，來捕捉對於環境、遷徙、情感認知、時間流逝、景物與疏離等現象觀察，進而轉換觀者在日常環境中對於材質的觀看與體驗，以此開展對話討論。

重要展演經歷包含：ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE Festival、Hyphenated Projects 和 DUE WEST Festival。於2019年獲得澳洲藝術委員會的藝術職涯發展獎助，2020年獲得墨爾本市政府的測試點計劃，並於2015年、2017年、2019年和2023年獲得台灣國家文化藝術基金會的國際文化交流補助。 2023年布萊克敦家庭暴力紀念花園公共藝術計畫「沉思」，榮獲新南威爾斯州地方政府頒發的 Leo Kelly OAM 藝術與文化獎。紀宇芳曾在澳洲、比利時、荷蘭和台灣等多處進行藝術駐村計畫。

2018年獲得澳洲皇家墨爾本理工大學博士學位，同年獲戴安娜摩根金銀獎。她的作品曾在日本伊丹工藝美術館、德國慕尼黑TALENTE和SCHMUCK國際手工業博覽會、波蘭萊格尼察國家藝術畫廊、愛沙尼亞博物館塔林應用藝術三年展…等多處博物館展出。作品典藏於台灣黃金博物館、韓國國際工藝雙年展、澳洲皇家墨爾本理工大學和法國巴黎裝飾藝術博物館…等。現旅居工作於台灣新竹和澳洲墨爾本。