Maker, Artist, Craftivist
Amy Hsu Tzu Chen is a London-based Taiwanese maker, textile artist, and craftivist whose work explores gender issues and female experiences through traditional domestic crafts. She received her MA in Textiles from the Royal College of Art in 2024, and her work has been exhibited in Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
Chen specialises in handcrafting vessels using techniques passed down by female artisans—such as coiling basketry, hand embroidery, patching, and felting—which she reclaims as powerful forms of resistance and storytelling. Her practice intentionally positions these so-called “women’s work” methods as catalysts for social and cultural change.
Guided by an intuitive process that honours instinct and emotion, Chen creates abstract, metaphorical forms that offer a poetic lens into the collective female psyche—its traumas, dreams, and inner landscapes. She is currently developing interactive haptic and sonic experiences that gently subvert gender norms and the role of female domestic crafts, inviting audiences into sensorial rituals that foster dialogue and empower human connections.
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Exhibition
2025
No One Has Taught Me This
Blackdot Gallery
London Design Festival, UK
UNDOINGS
Sussex Contemporary Gallery
Sussex Craft Week, UK
Sacred Codes of the Enchanted Isle
Solo Exhibition
Oriental Club Lounge
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
Women’s Worth
Fox Yard Studio
Suffolk, UK
2024
Home : Taiwan
Safe House 1
London, UK
RCA Textiles Festival Degree Show
Royal College of Art
London, UK
Textiles In The Making Exhibition
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Royal College of Art
London, UK
Across RCA Celebration Exhibition
Hangar Space
Royal College of Art
London, UK
We are Rooting for You Exhibition
Hockney Gallery
Royal College of Art
London, UK
The Grief Space Exhibition
Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
Royal College of Art
London, UK
Education
2024
MA Textiles
Royal College of Art (RCA)
London, UK
2019
Bac +3 Fashion Design
Exchange Program & Internships
Institut Français de la Mode (IFM)
Paris, France
2017
BFA Fashion Design
Academy of Art University (AAU)
San Francisco, USA
Awards
2025
Material Innovation Award
Presented by Art and Materials Lab & Blackdot Gallery
Winner
London, UK
Visual Art Open Prize
Longlist
London, UK
2017
Mittelmoda The Fashion Award
Finalist
Milan, Italy
IFM Exchange Scholarship
Winner
Academy of Art University (AAU)
San Francisco, USA
2016
CFDA Geoffrey Beene Scholarship
Finalist
CFDA, New York, USA