I am an artist working across drawing, sculpture, installation, video, performance, and writing, exploring memory, (be)longing, displacement and the notion of home. I work with found and household objects alongside delicate and overlooked materials such as glass, PVC and glassine paper and create uncanny domestic scenes where everyday objects become carriers of memory, loss and attachment. I might collect a plaster fragment from a house renovation site and sculpt it into a pair of eyeballs, write letters to geese in the park, or create spells to cope with the art world using ready-made objects and quotes.
Growing up in Hong Kong amid political upheaval and rapid urban change, I experienced instability and a changing sense of place. When I learned a place connected to my childhood would be demolished, I began to wonder what happens to the memories attached to it. Leaving Hong Kong to study abroad in 2019 further shaped my thinking about living between places, changing relationships with home, and how artists find support across different contexts.
My practice is grounded in a childlike, Do-It-Yourself approach to making. I find alternative ways of constructing things, allowing materials and objects to suggest possibilities through experimentation rather than illustrating a fixed idea. I am now moving from personal reflection towards structured research and collective enquiry. Alongside my studio practice, I explore more sustainable and collective ways of working rooted in collaboration and care, responding to under-representation and structural inequalities within the contemporary art world.
You are welcome to get in touch by email at jessietam.info@gmail.com or through Instagram.
Jessie Tam (Hong Kong, 1993). Selected exhibitions: It Has to Be Apart / It Has to Be Alone (C&G Artpartment, Sheffield, 2026); The Library Is All of These (Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2025); I Don’t Know How to Love You Teach Me to Love (Das Esszimmer, Bonn, 2024); I Know It By Heart (Pointsman Art Space, Hong Kong, 2024). Tam co-founded Struggling Art Space in 2021, an artist-run initiative supporting artists through exhibitions and international collaboration. She is the recipient of the Freelands Foundation Artist Bursary (2025), Eaton Fund (2025), Emerging Artist Grant (2022) and Amarte Fund (2022). She is a contributing writer for Fourdrinier and writes through the persona Art Writer MeMe. An interview about her practice is available on Corridor8.