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The colour red symbolises a loud and ambitious cry for attention, yet the tape is temporary, removable, and small. I use the conflicting characteristics of the red tape to represent a core motive of my art practice – exploring the delicate contradiction of doubting the possibility of complete understanding between individual minds, yet still holding dear the hope of being found and understood by others.
My art practice delves into psychological themes such as trauma and healing, collective loneliness, and loss and grief. I transform ideas into storytelling and express them through various media, including a series of illustrations, poetry, audio art, paintings, public installations, and performances. I enjoy experimenting with different formats and creating with the one that best conveys the concept.
I see my art practice as my therapy, and the works are the audience’s story time. I tell stories through my art; I work with fragments of my life. My works are personal, intimate, and soft with a tone of cruelness.
To me, the making of art is always deeply personal. It is the most well-rounded way to convey a specific point of view and to sow an instant, yet deep, connection with another human, if executed accurately. There is something uniquely poetic about connecting through art: the act of creating in one’s own language, then being seen, felt, and understood on a transcendent, almost numinous, level. This is the magic of art that nothing else can replicate.
In one of my more distinctive collections of works – the red tape series - I create works that combine small, delicate drawings of everyday objects with colourful, abstract visual effects of contrasting textures made with various pigments, along with handwritten words that add structure to the story I am telling through the work. Each small paper represents a particular scene that carries a portion of the idea's importance. With all of them being made, arranged, and composed into one work, the story is completed and told.
I consider creating art as a form of unconditional love I give to life.
Bio
Neryhs was born in Hong Kong, continued her BA (Hons) study in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts of the University of Arts London, and graduated with First Class Honours in 2020. She then finished her MA degree in Art in Public Space with distinction at RMIT University in 2024. Neryhs is now an emerging independent artist.
Exhibition
Jan 2026 Possibilities, Group Exhibition, CICA Museum, Seoul
Oct 2025 The Unmoving Variable, Group Exhibition,
XXI Giornata del Contemporaneo AMACI x Rossocinabro Gallery, Florence
Jun 2025 Nature Speaks, Group Exhibition, Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome
May 2025 Identities, Group Exhibition, Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome
Mar 2025 Cultural Differences 2, Group Exhibition, Rossocinabro Gallery, Rome
Feb 2025 Group Exhibition, Art Number 23, Rome
Oct 2024 Interchange, Online Fine Art Exhibition, Florence Contemporary Gallery
June 2024 MISHMASH, Group Exhibition, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
July 2021 2nd Huaniao Island International Art Festival, Zhoushan, China
Jan 2021 After_, Fine Art Exhibition, A.C.O. Gallery, Hong Kong
Dec 2020 Folie à deux, Fine Art Exhibition, Haus Gallery, London
Nov 2020 A yearlong exhibition at Law Firm Fresh Field Headquarters, London
Mar 2019 Am I As Joyous As I Should Be?, London
Jan 2019 Lovely Republic, Kyoto
Jan 2019 TADAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!, Kyoto
May 2018 Spilt Milk, London
Education
2021 - 2024 MA in Art in Public Space (Distinction)
RMIT
2017 - 2020 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class Honours)
Chelsea College Of Arts
2016 - 2017 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Central Saint Martins
Contact
email: neryhswo.creating@gmail.com
Instagram: @neryhs_wo
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