• Yiu-Wai Chu, Pricechu
    Artist / Designer / Maker
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Explode001-016 Thermal Screen Print

In the stillness of calm waters lies the anticipation of the next eruption. This tranquility is but a prelude, a moment of preparation for the forthcoming upheaval. Are you ready to face it?

ESEA Artists Futures Graphic Design

A series of graphic designs for ESEA Artists Futures.

Would You Like a Receipt Kinetic Installation

Despite never having been to the UK before, since moving there in 2021, I have strangely evoked memories of my childhood in this unfamiliar place. When I think about British culture, I realised that we are a part of it.

Behind the Curtain Two colour Lithograph Print

We have always lived in the gap, standing between East and West, freedom and feudalism, living and surviving.

Water Traces Kinetic Art - Drawing Machine

As time goes by, the water traces disappear and reappear without a fixed form, It cannot be described. The audience can only create the forgotten moments in their mind through imagination.

Fading Hand in Tears Set of Prints

Some traces are helplessly forgotten in my mind, and can only be sublimated into another form to continue forever.

Fading Stone Kinetic Art Drawing Machine

Under the influence of the pandemic and the social movement in Hong Kong, this work is a record of a part of the great changes that are taking place at the moment.

Break & Build RubberBand Powered Wooden Toy

《Break & Build》a wooden car powered by rubberband, modules are connected with magnet that’s easy disbanding and reorganising. Wooden parts are handcrafted bound up with magnet and bee wax coating after carved and cut by CNC. Designed and made in Hong Kong, Bravo!!

Break Together Interactive Kinetic Art

That’s a simple truth. What kind of constructions are not derive from de-construction? Disbanding, reorganising, stumbling... Learn from mistakes and we are all grown up with similar paths.

Cycle Interactive Kinetic Art

"Cycle" is interactive kinetic art, which is about the transformation of water when it fights for its way to go. Who can remember the trajectory of water and fog? Let’s take a look, it’s not beautiful or not, it’s only existence and change. As time goes by, you'll forget all of it, but nothing is immortal, prosperity and decay must have its cycle. Water in the cup travels from the bottom to the top through the wick, is spread away by the system to leave different water stains. The stains and speed of system rotation are interacted by changes in atmospheric humidity and Hang Seng Index

Horse Racing Projection Mapping

This is a commercial project for the opening of a private horse racing party. I was commissioned to be a technical consultant and create a projection mapping animation. The concept is about bringing different elements together to bring energy and vigor to the line.

Backward! Backward!
Back Backward! Interactive Toy

Value system is built from an early age. Unconsciously, we have been instilled a concept of "Forward! Forward! For Forward! ", that's right, but what kind of value could be accumulated? Money? Achievement? National or just Survive? Adult can only stand from the outside to spy the children's world with envy and self-complacency. However, children are independent, those values are slowly pushed forward ... ... forward ... ... forward and forward.

Your Petrol Bomb Performance Art

Everyone has a petrol bomb in their mind, but eventually even though it is burning yourself, we can only wait and left it in hand into ashes.

ArmStrong Toy for my Son

Handmade wooden tractor with the process of design, wood cutting as well as stainless steel welding. The idea of《Armstrong》is from kids’ view that inspired by my son who turned over a wooden stool as a little car for moving forward one day. With many trials and challenges over a year, there is a fruitful result to see that the kid is playing《Armstrong》well.

Portable Art Vending Machine Interactive Art

The work functions as any vending machine. People are invited to insert money which activates the gadget to draw. Each participant that invests enables the growth of the piece and also the artist's survival.

Oh Ah E Yeah! Salted Fish with Melon Community Project

Hong Kong people are very particular about food.We always hear“When it comes to food, it’s important to consider...” factors like the taste, appearance, nutrient, trend anddetails, to name but a few.However, in my point of view, the popularity of a dish does not necessarily depend on its flavour or nutritional value.It is your feeling that matters how it tastes and how you regard the dish.

Art Piece Making Machine Community Art

“Art Vending Machine” and "Art Piece Making Machine" provided a chance of art investment to public economically, therefore the artist needs to produce art in automation for having some time off to work to support one’s family. These two years, the “Machine” will raise the capital in difference mode to comply with the “Local Art Futures Contract”.

Second Place Handmade Furniture

Being alone, you live in freedom and enjoy your space anywhere and anytime. However, maybe you would get the unexpected returns when you are willing to abandon a bit of freedom and leisure, to place yourself in the second role, share with your loves, double happiness is gained.

Lure of Red Kinetic Animation

Money is neutral matter, depending on how you treat it. In the lure of red, is the money black or white?

Big Part Kinetic Art

Big part of our live is doing same thing : “Moving”. The point is can you active or you are passive. I choose interactively.

Left Right Left Kinetic Art

Left or Right? He is swaying between two difficulties. The greatest show ends unexpectedly. We just want to be closer.

Money is looking at you Projection Installation

Money is an intimate friend of ours. Money is looking at you whatever you buy the land or sell the house / building. Money is looking at you whatever you buy a well-known brand or sell luxurious handbags. Money is looking at you whatever you buy sweet potatoes or sell Chinese style desserts. Money is looking at you whatever you buy life or sell time.

Inter Grow Interactive Projection Art

Interactive Projection Art in Hong Kong shopping mall is introduced in iSQUARE. The art piece makes the mall full of vitality, brings the nature into the shopping mall from the outdoors. People would interact with the images projected on the walls along a 37-metre long express escalator from MTR level to Lobby floor. The moves of people like water flows, to grow up the nature, at the same time to make it more active.

RMB Oil Painting

On the topic of globalization, the role of money is competing for power between countries. A piece of HK $ 100 was issued by the US Federal Reserve but his name was RMB.

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