Gayle Chong Kwan

Gayle Chong Kwan (born 1973) is a British artist of Scottish and Chinese Mauritian heritage whose practice spans across photography, sculpture, installation and public realm projects, as well as intimate and large-scale sensory ritual events. Her work explores the politics of travel, strategies of collecting and categorisation, decolonisation, waste, islands and the botanical. She often works with people and communities in non-gallery settings and engages in research with collections and archives. She obtained a PhD in Fine Art from the Royal College of Art with a thesis on the topic: ‘Imaginal Travel: political and ecological positioning as fine art practice.’ Chong Kwan was Artist in Residence in Photography at the V&A between 2019-21.