NICOLA CHAN
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12. CV
Shelf Life: How to Treat an Eggy, 2025
Bridge Project by Do Ho Suh, 2024-2025
Chinglish Guardian Lion, 2024
Inverted Monument – Plaza by Do Ho Suh, 2022, 2024
Various Ceramicware 2022-2025
Every Nook and Cranny, 2019
Garment as Architecture, 2019
Study Model I, 2019
Casting a Space, 2018-2019 
Drafting a Space, 2018
Ford Homes, 2017-2018
Software Version v.5.1, 2016


© Nicola Chan     
Nicola Chi-Hay Chan (b. 1994 in London) is a multidisciplinary artist, architectural designer, and maker. Her work seeks to blur the boundaries between art and architecture, investigating rituals and cultural norms through speculative narratives. She works through tactile, intuitive analogue processes in dialogue with the digital tools of her architectural background. She is also committed to widening access to art and the spaces that govern it, mentoring with Arts Emergency and co-founding Jack Draw Me Like, a community life-drawing club in Hackney. Alongside her own practice, she has taught at The Bartlett School of Architecture and been a guest critic at Oxford Brookes School of Architecture. She currently works at Do Ho Suh Studio as Architecture and Research Lead.
To purchase work or discussion a commission or collaboration
nicolachchan@gmail.com
@nicola._chan 
03.Chinglish Guardian Lion

2024

Ceramic, stoneware
Chinese guardian lions, or fu dogs, traditionally stand outside palaces and tombs across Asia. Chinglish Guardian Lion – a portmanteau of “Chinese” and “English”—reimagines the lion through a diasporic lens, inspired by Chan’s family, who immigrated from Hong Kong to London in the 1980s and brought these architectural ornaments to guard the exterior of their London suburban homes.
1/4 Chinglish Guardian Lion, 2024, stoneware
2/4 Chinglish Guardian Lion, 2024, stoneware
3/4 Chinglish Guardian Lion, 2024, stoneware
4/4 Chinglish Guardian Lion, 2024, stoneware