Lok Yan Chau (b.1996) is a Hong Kong artist currently based in London. She holds a BA in Visual
Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2018), and is currently
pursuing her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art (expected 2025/2026).
Her practice investigates how early trauma shapes emotion, behaviour, and perception in later
life. Working with research in trauma psychology and embodied experience, she thinks through
painting as a process of introspection, analysing personal experience through visual logic and
searching for the unknown through gradual acts of response, alteration, and accumulation.
Her work reflects the fragmentary, non-linear nature of traumatic memory, where sensation
overwhelms narrative. Painting creates a space where layers of thought, sensation, and
information appear simultaneously, correlating, echoing, revealing one another. She explores
how visual language translates internal states such as vibration, pulsation, energy, and bodily
memory into material presence. Through this process, her paintings become sites of discovery,
seeking a deeper understanding of the complexity and opacity of lived experienc
Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2018), and is currently
pursuing her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art (expected 2025/2026).
Her practice investigates how early trauma shapes emotion, behaviour, and perception in later
life. Working with research in trauma psychology and embodied experience, she thinks through
painting as a process of introspection, analysing personal experience through visual logic and
searching for the unknown through gradual acts of response, alteration, and accumulation.
Her work reflects the fragmentary, non-linear nature of traumatic memory, where sensation
overwhelms narrative. Painting creates a space where layers of thought, sensation, and
information appear simultaneously, correlating, echoing, revealing one another. She explores
how visual language translates internal states such as vibration, pulsation, energy, and bodily
memory into material presence. Through this process, her paintings become sites of discovery,
seeking a deeper understanding of the complexity and opacity of lived experienc
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Lok Yan Chau (b.1996) is a Hong Kong artist currently based in London. She holds a BA in Visual
Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2018), and is currently
pursuing her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art (expected 2025/2026).
Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University (2018), and is currently
pursuing her MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art (expected 2025/2026).
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