Torey Yiu
My practice begins with people, places, and feelings that often recede into the background of everyday life. I am drawn to domestic spaces in older urban districts, where shared areas and ordinary objects remain entangled with residents’ routines, gestures, and memories. Within these spaces, I attend to small sensory shifts: such as a change in sound, a dimming of light, a texture encountered differently by the hand, or an object slightly out of place.
I am interested in how such shifts alter an emotional atmosphere, and how emotion, in turn, transforms the ways an object or space is seen, heard, and felt. I approach each work as a container—not for a fixed narrative, but for sensations, memories, and uncertain associations to gather. Through material processes, I create conditions in which subtle changes in perception and feeling can emerge.
My experience in social work and trauma counselling has shaped how I listen to feeling and to what remains unspoken. It informs how I enter a space, what I choose to hold back, and how I remain close to another person’s experience without assuming the authority to explain it. This attentiveness remains quietly present in the work: in what is allowed to remain unsaid, and in the way feeling is held without being forced into resolution.
Biography
Torey Yiu is a Hong Kong-based interdisciplinary artist and social worker working across mixed media, sound, and installation. Her work is rooted in everyday urban domestic environments and considers how ordinary objects, shared routines, and living spaces can carry personal and collective histories. She is particularly interested in older neighbourhoods and precarious housing conditions, including subdivided flats and rooftop structures, where social circumstances are closely woven into daily life.
Yiu brings a decade of advocacy, community development, and trauma-informed care to her artistic practice. Her background in social work and trauma counselling informs her long-term interest in housing, neighbourhood life, and the intimate ways in which people experience place. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from RMIT University and Hong Kong Art School in 2026, and an Associate of Social Science in Social Work from the Community College of City University in 2014.
Her work has been presented in Find Your Heart’s Voice — Trauma-Informed Care Public Art Exhibition (2024); Chi4 Nan2 Sin3 at Mooroom, Hong Kong (2025); and SEMORDNILAP, RMIT University / Hong Kong Art School Graduation Show (2026). She received the Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network Award in 2026.
Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
2026 SEMORDNILAP, Graduation Show, RMIT University / Hong Kong Art School
2025 Chi4 Nan2 Sin3, Mooroom, Hong Kong
2024 Find Your Heart’s Voice, Trauma- Informed Care Public Art Exhibition, Hong Kong
Awards
2026 Hong Kong Art School Alumni Network Award
Publications, Interviews & Features
Education
2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts, RMIT University / Hong Kong Art School
2014 Associate of Social Science in Social Work, Community College of City University
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