Xuan Yeo

yeoxuan00@gmail.com

Xuan is a Singaporean-Malaysian textile artist, and perfumer at Goldsmiths, living between Singapore and 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 hand-woven textiles, perfumery, and installation, her work focuses on material origin and her matrilineal heritage, seeing through processes in karmic cycles and memory.

Her practice is often grounded in concepts of Mahāyāna Buddhism and in karma. The making of her work thus functions as anti-productive, anti-individual and anti-expressive: through meditation and labour, they are mutually formulaic and repetitive. They require a simultaneous annihilation and regeneration, a reflection of 无我 (no-self) and of 慈悲 (compassion).

She is also coproducer of a women’s textile collective known as Silkworm, with extended experience conducting community collaborations and workshops, as well as teaching various textile crafts ranging from crochet to weaving. She has worked across London and Singapore, such as with Fitzrovia Gallery, Starch, Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art, Constance Howard Gallery, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Kunst Affair, and Studio Lotusroot. Xuan has also directed visual content for Coolcolor contact lens, Sengkang General Hospital, PK Records, and Global Cultural Alliance. She recently graduated from BA Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths with First Class Honours.


Exhibitions
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
2024    Collective Spice Mapping, ZII Gallery (London, England)
2024    絲 sī, Mimosa House (London, England)
2024    Community Tapestry, Free Books Festival X Synonym Lab (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 X Silkworm Collective X Goldsmiths Centre of Contemporary Art
              (London, England)
2023    Temporary Autonomous Art London, Regents’ Park (London, England)
2023    Fruits of Conviviality, Saint James Hatcham Church, May 2023 (London, England)
2022    Outstretched, for Festival of Research, Goldsmiths Research Internship Programme (London, England) 


Publications
2024    Reimagining Crits, A Particular Reality (London, England) 
2023    Shifting the Margins, The Centre for Arts and Learning x Goldsmiths’ Art Department (London, England)


Residencies/Collaborations
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)
2023    Creative Perfumery Practice, Institute of Art and Olfaction (Los Angeles, California)
2022    tammie lim, PK Records (Singapore)
2019    Sengkang General Hospital, Concept artist (Singapore)