Silk, as both a surface and subject, is central to this inquiry. Cited as a material that mirrors his own cultural inheritance, its semi-transparent qualities are combined with processes of silhouetting and collage that builds towards a visual language between wall-based painting and expanded sculptural forms. The studio sits between physical and metaphorical acts of connection and fragmentatation. He frequently incorporates material experiments and refuse into new works, forming an internal archive that ties the act of making to a lineage of exchange, speculation and histories of artistic production. This coincides with activations of what is partially visible or withheld, responding attentively to architectural settings and institutional contexts as active frames for how cultural identity is displayed, obscured or made legible.
Parallel to his painting-based works are large-scale installations and ceramic sculptures that negotiate the space between formal display strategies and more speculative modes of presentation. His material language is extensive. Algonside silk - paper, painted fabric, wood, draped surfaces and shadows, each carry their own histories and resistances. By examining the properties of these appraoches, Remy aims to expand upon new materialities of painting that resist binary categorisations of identity-based art making. In doing so, the distinction between these materials, and their attendant histories and hierarchies, are constantly blurred and reshaped, opening up ways of imagining identity as something fluid, expansive and still unfolding.
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Remy graduated from UNSW Art and Design, receiving Class 1 Honours in 2021 and completed an Masters of Fine Arts (research) there in 2026. He has exhibited consistently both nationally and recently overseas, presenting solo exhibitions at CASSANDRA BIRD Paris (2026) and Sydney (2024), UNSW Galleries (2026), Mosman Art Gallery (2025), Craft Victoria (2024) and Cement Fondu (2023). His work has been presented in group exhibitions at the Rockhampton of Museum of Art, Artspace, Art Gallery of NSW, Museum of Chinese in Australia [MOCA], Gosford Regional Gallery and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts [PICA], among others. He has been awarded the Tim Olsen Drawing Prize (2024) and the Gosford Art Prize (2023), and was a finalist in the Archibald Prize (2025), the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2025) and the Create NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (2024) presented at Artspace, Sydney. His work has been featured in Art Collector, Art Guide Australia and Thames and Hudson publications. He has undertaken residencies at Waverley Artist Studios, the City of Sydney Creative studios and PICA.
He is current studio artist as part of Artspace’s 2-year studio program.
Remy is represented by Cassandra Bird, Sydney.
Studio portrait, 2026, at Artspace, Sydney. Photograph: Bowen Arico