Yu Fang Chi's practice involves repetitive fibre-related techniques which can be connected to traditional domestic art processes. She engaged intensive material-based practices, artistic research and curatorial projects to deftly investigate the role of femininity and its cultural connotations.
Yu Fang Chi is a Taiwan-born Australian artist working within textile, silversmithing, sculpture, and spacial installation in Asia, Australia, and Europe. In her practice, Chi explores the processes of weaving and the position of human body.
Through various methods of exploring line and form – via traditional craft techniques, wire, and textile installation, as well the use of lighting and shadow – Chi challenges the way weaving to operate and be presented. In 2019, she received Career Development Grants form Australia Council and International Cultural Exchange Grants from Taiwan National Culture and Arts Foundation. Chi has undertaken artist in residencies in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Taipei.
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 International Handwerksmesse Munich, The Museum of Arts and Crafts ITAMI Japan, The Gallery of Art Legnica in Poland, Beijing International Jewelry Art Biennial, World Art Museum and so on. Yu Fang Chi’s work is held in the collections of Gold Museum in Taiwan, Korea International Craft Biennale, and Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France.
2020 The Guardian Press
'Plastic is political': upcycled art exposes Australia’s fraught relationship with waste
2020 Perth Happenings
https://perthhappenings.com.au/plasticology-exhibition-an-interview-with-yu-fang/
2020 Seesaw, Western Australia’s premier online arts magazine
https://www.seesawmag.com.au/2020/04/plastic-recycled-and-reimagined
2017 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2017, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, The Reverse and Introspection of Material— MARI FUNAKI AWARD, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, vol.66, Oct.
2017 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2017, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, Contemporary Perspective of Tapestry—Australian Tapestry Workshop, vol.65.
2016 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2016, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, The Displacement between Body and Object, vol.60, Jan.
2015 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2015, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, Radiant Pavilion_ Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Trail, vol.59,Dec., pp. 86-91.
2015 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2015, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, edgesbordersgaps_ 16thbiennial JMGA conference, vol.58, Sep., pp. 84-86.
2015 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2015, The Poetic imagination—Manon van Kouswijk's Jewellery and Object, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly,vol.57 , pp. 78-83.
2015 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2015, Art of the Table—National Gallery of Victoria, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, vol.56
2014 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2014, Svenja John—The Evolution Of Color And Structure, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, vol.55, Dec., pp. 86-91.
2014 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2014, The Journey of Jewellery－JACQUI CHAN's Jewellery in the Urban Milieu, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, vol.54, Sep., pp 76-79
2014 Yu-Fang, CHI, TW 2014, Between Rational Technology And Perceptual Practice－The humanism of Digital Application in contemporary metalsmithing, Taiwan Crafts Quarterly, vol.53, Jun., pp 6-11
Group Exhibition
Melbourne Design Fair 2023
May 18-21, 2023