About — Noel Cheung

_{Noel Cheung 張知行}

⸰ curator ⸰
⸰ researcher ⸰
⸰ maker ⸰

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Selected Practice:
Curation
⸰ Why We Make
⸰ Made in Exile
⸰ Things, Spaces, Interactions
⸰ Research on the Move
⸰ Archigram Cities
⸰ Women, Architecture, and the City

Ceramics
⸰ Carrier Bag of Exile
⸰ Can We Excavate Who We Are?
⸰ Wavering

Workshops
⸰ The Stories We Carry

Process & Writing

About Noel Cheung (she/her)

I am a London-based curator and researcher working across contemporary design, architecture, and art, exploring how creative practices reveal and shape the psychological and spatial tensions of migration in postcolonial Britain. My work focuses on how artists and makers from diasporic and internally migrating communities use material culture, craft processes, and everyday spatial practices to negotiate memory, belonging, and the layered geographies of lived and inherited identity.

My approach is grounded in material sensitivity informed by my own ceramic practice, alongside a commitment to collaborative and community-engaged methods. I work closely with artists, designers, and craftspeople to develop exhibitions, commissions, and installations that examine how hybrid traditions, experimental storytelling, and process-based making can become tools for navigating displacement, sustaining cultural continuity, and renegotiating ideas of ‘home’.

I am currently Assistant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, working on the development of V&A East Museum and Storehouse. Previously, I served as Assistant Curator of Design and Architecture at M+ Museum in Hong Kong, where I contributed to the development and launch of the museum's design and architecture collection, displays, and programmes. I hold an MA in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University London and a BSc in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Nottingham.

Contact me for projects

@noelcheung3