Artist working across sculpture, installation, and painting

Statement

Haige Wu’s practice explores how identity is shaped through systems of relation—between bodies, families, and cultural structures. Rooted in her own lived experience, her work often begins with close observation, field research, and personal memory, grounding abstract ideas in specific social and cultural contexts.

Working across sculpture, installation, and painting, Wu draws from a background in traditional craft while developing a material language that increasingly centers on softness and resilience. Textile-based processes, felt, and other pliable materials are used not for their delicacy but for their capacity to hold tension, absorb pressure, and transform over time.

Her works often take the form of constructed environments or suspended structures, where forms appear to be held together through invisible forces. Within these spaces, relationships are not illustrated, but enacted—emerging through balance, compression, and release.

Bio

Haige Wu (b. 1998, Guangdong, China) is a London- and China-based artist working across sculpture, installation, and painting. Her work has been exhibited internationally across the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and China.

She was shortlisted for the Holt Festival Art Prize, and her recent exhibitions include presentations in London and Milan. Her practice engages with relational structures, material tension, and embodied forms through a multidisciplinary approach.

Wu graduated from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and received her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.

Alongside her artistic practice, she is the co-founder of the French-based art and design studio Duen Studio, and the founder of INKU Sphere, an independent platform through which she has curated exhibitions across London and Milan.

Education

2016 - 2020 The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, major in Art Education, Crafts, and Art direction.

2021 - 2023 University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins, major in MA Fine Art.

Selected Exhibition

2024 Meaningful & Meaningless, Studio Home Awareness, Milan, Italy.

2024 "Invited Worlds" art exhibition, Speiro Project, London

2024 Maison & Object, Paris Design Week, France.

2024 Holt Festival Art Prize Shortlist and Selected Exhibitions, Holt.

2024 "Seeing Red" art exhibition, Chapel Art Studio, Andover.

2024 Zine "Sweet Home" at Offprint London, Tate Mordern.

2024 "There Is No Time Like Springs" art exhibition, BWG Gallery, London

2023 "(UN)done" art exhibition, Hypha Studio, London.

2023 CSM Postgraduate Shows 2023, London.

2022    Zine "Sweet Home" at Lethaby Gallery exhibition "Transparent Ritual", London.

2022    Print "Tree" in Koppel × CSM Merch Pop Up, London.

2022   "Sinking" was selected to participate in "Liyu Dongxi" - China International Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition.

2020    The work "Sinking" was selected for the "Journey of a Thousand Miles" exhibition of outstanding works by the 2020 graduates of key art colleges in China.

2019    "The Green Window" was selected for the 3rd China-Hebei International Glass Art Festival.

2019    Rock-colour painting "The Main Character" was selected for the 8th China Student Art Fair, Guangzhou, China.

2018   "Read" and three other works were selected for the "Hyperlink Project" exhibition at Sun in Sky-SIS Contemporary Art Space, Guangzhou, China.