Hazel Lim’s practice builds a visual vocabulary that explores how narratives and histories are constructed, often through themes of reimagined histories and fictive terrains. Working with text, drawing, and craft-based methods, she investigates how material processes, such as paper folding and needlework, can structure unconventional ways of storytelling and image-making. Her recent work turns to diagrams, colour theory, and paper craft as tools to question how visual and tactile forms might encode meaning, drawing on elements of science and mathematics, particularly systems and geometry, to explore structure, pattern, and spatial logic. These inquiries are threaded with reflections y on the associations between craft, the domestic, and the feminine, positioning making as both conceptual and embodied, grounded in gesture, repetition, and the labour of the hand.

 

Lim currently leads the BA(Hons) Fine Arts programme at the McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. She has participated in exhibitions and collaborative projects both locally and internationally. From 2004 to 2012, she was an Associate Artist at The Substation, Singapore, and was commissioned for the Singapore Biennale 2013/2014. Together with her partner, Andreas Schlegel, she presented an installation commissioned for the Children’s Biennale 2019 at National Gallery Singapore, which later travelled to the Kinderbiënnale 2021/2022 at the Groninger Museum (Netherlands), Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), and Singapore Art Museum.

 

Lim is also the co-founder of Critical Craft Collective, a platform dedicated to exploring and promoting contemporary craft practices through curatorial and collaborative projects that engage with materiality, process, and community.