Gigi Tsim

Gigi is a Hongkonger artist based in London and a recent graduate of Camberwell College of Arts (BA Fine Art: Painting). Her practice explores migration and suppression through painted Hong Kong cityscapes shaped by personal and collective memory.

After exhausting her personal photo archive, she now uses Google Maps to revisit multiple temporal layers of the same streets, navigating the tension between documentation and imagination. Incomplete, fragmented scenes heighten the viewer’s ability to find familiarity within her cityscapes. Using landscape as a vessel for migratory grief, her low-saturated works hold what remains unsaid.

As her White Paintings series evolves, she introduces toned grounds as non-whites, departing from the literal use of white to convey blankness and decay while investigating traditional East Asian materials in relation to displacement, including Xuan paper, traditional pigments, bamboo scrolls, and red-white-blue fabric. Her recent work creates liminal spaces that situate viewers between estrangement and imagined comfort, seeking fragile balances between displacement, oppression, and belonging.

She has exhibited in London, including the Recent Graduates Showcase at Affordable Art Fair Battersea 2025, and multiple group exhibitions, such as Living Between Spaces, Memory and Belonging (Supermoon Gallery), and Archives in Absence. She is currently undertaking ongoing research supported by Cedric Morris Travel Awards (Ist Prize), focusing on the Korean Dansaekhwa movement and post–political turmoil cultural development. Her practice is painting-led and grounded in sustained studio-based work.