Hannah Lim

As a woman of mixed Singaporean and British heritage, Hannah Lim’s works explore the relationship between her two cultures, delving into how this has been reflected historically in furniture design, objects and architecture. Lim creates furniture-like structures that are ornamental but also functional. These are usually flat-packable and when assembled are often anthropomorphic in stature and shape. These objects are culturally coded, they reference an aesthetic trend that saw the appropriation of Chinese design as a result of Britain's colonial conquests however they are also playful and peculiar. Their creature-like bodies depict them as having a life of their own.