Xuan Yeo
yeoxuan00@gmail.comXuan is a Singaporean-Malaysian textile artist, fabricator, and designer, currently based in London. Her practice(s) are rooted in negation and emptiness, in order to activate meditative environments that underscore the extreme labour-intensiveness of their making. Through weaving, perfumery, installation, and textual manipulation, her work productively uses meditation and labour to see through processes in karmic cycles, memory, and spatio-temporal imaginations into being diaspora. Grounded in gnomonic systems of measurement, time, and celestial divination based in ancient Vedic scripture, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Euclidean geometry, and Daoist logic, they are mutually formulaic and repetitive.
She has also worked across London and Singapore, such as with A.P.T. Gallery, Fitzrovia Gallery, Starch, Mimosa House, Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art, Constance Howard Gallery, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Kunst Affair, A Particular Reality, Freelands Foundation, and has directed visual content for Coolcolor contact lens, Sengkang General Hospital, PK Records, and Global Cultural Alliance. She is also coproducer for Silkworm Collective in conducting community collaborations, workshops, and marketing. Silkworm currently hold a residency at the Goldsmiths’ Centre of Contemporary Art and are in ongoing collaboration with Greenwich Royal Libraries and Teaspoon Projects.
She holds a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Press
2024 MEMO: Global Daily Brief (mmrndm)
Exhibitions (selected)
2025 Memory is the Seamstress, A.P.T. Gallery (London, England)
2024 I Spun Me a Strand, Thames-Side Studios Lounge (London, England)
2023 Kunst Affair 3.0, AMP Studios (London, England)
2023 Goldsmiths BA Degree Shows 2023, Goldsmiths (London, England)
2023 Barang Shop 3, Studio Lotusroot (London, England)
2022 ArtWorks Open 2022, Barbican Arts Group Trust (London, England)
2022 Thresholds of Being, starch (Singapore)
Facilitations (selected)
2025 絲 sī, Silkworm Collective for Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art (London, England)
2025 Setting Roots, Silkworm Collective for Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art (London, England)
2025 Threading Memory, Silkworm Collective for A.P.T. Gallery (London, England)
2024 Collective Spice Mapping, ZII Gallery (London, England)
2024 絲 sī, Mimosa House (London, England)
2024 Community Tapestry, Synonym Lab for Free Books Festival (London, England)
2024 Introduction to Weaving, Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios (London, England)
2024 Loose Ends, Threading Memory II, Thames-Side Studios (London, England)
2024 Wapping Quilt Project, Jesuit Refugee Centre (London, England)
2023 Threading Memory, A Particular Reality and Silkworm Collective for Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art
(London, England)
2023 Fruits of Conviviality, Saint James Hatcham Church, May 2023 (London, England)
2022 Outstretched, for Festival of Research, Goldsmiths Careers Services (London, England)
Projects/Publications (art direction)
2025 SHIFT, Freelands Foundation (London, England)
2025 Coast: A Mono-Titular Anthology of Singapore Writing, edited by Daren Shiau (Singapore)
2025 Memory is the Seamstress, Silkworm Collective (London, England)
2024 Reimagining Crits, A Particular Reality (London, England)
2023 Goldsmiths’ Degree Show Exhibition Catalogue (London, England)
2022 Shifting the Margins, The Centre for Arts and Learning and Goldsmiths’ Art Department (London, England)
Residencies/Collaborations
2025 Stitch Circle, Twilight Contemporary (London, England)
2024 Synonym Lab, Facilitator (London, England)
2024 Stitch Circle, Constance Howard Gallery (London, England)
2024 Martina Larsson & Artists, 139 Whitfield St, The Fitzrovia Gallery (London, England)
2022 tammie lim, PK Records (Singapore)