About — Noel Cheung

⸰ curator ⸰
⸰ researcher ⸰
⸰ maker ⸰

Noel Cheung is a London-based independent curator working across contemporary design, architecture, and art.

Her practice explores how material culture shapes experiences of migration, memory, and belonging in postcolonial Britain. She collaborates with museums, cultural organisations, and creative practitioners to develop research-led exhibitions, curatorial frameworks, and public programmes.

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Selected Practice:

Curatorial Projects
⸰ Why We Make
⸰ Made in Exile
⸰ Things, Spaces, Interactions
⸰ Research on the Move
⸰ Archigram Cities
⸰ Women, Architecture, and the City

Material Practice
⸰ 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. My practice inquires into how creative practices reveal and shape the psychological and spatial tensions of migration in postcolonial Britain. I develop research-led exhibitions and curatorial frameworks that examine how 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 curatorial approach is grounded in material sensitivity informed by my own ceramic practice, with a commitment to collaborative and community-engaged methods. I work closely with artists, designers, and craftspeople to develop exhibitions, commissions, and installations. My projects, such as Forming New Folklores: Made in Exile and The Stories We Carry, explore how hybrid traditions, experimental storytelling, and process-based making can become tools for navigating displacement, sustaining cultural continuity, and renegotiating ideas of ‘home’.

From 2022—2026, I served as Assistant Curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, contributing to the development and launch of V&A East Museum and Storehouse. As part of the core curatorial team for the Why We Make collection galleries, I contributed to shaping an interdisciplinary, transhistorical, and polyvocal approach to curating across the V&A's collections.

From 2017—2022, I was Assistant Curator of Design and Architecture at M+, a new museum of visual culture in Hong Kong. There I contributed to the development and launch of the museum's design and architecture collection, displays, and programmes, including Things, Spaces, Interactions and Research on the Move. My work involved sustained primary research and narrative development aimed at expanding and pluralising dominant design and architecture canons.

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.

For curatorial collaboration, commissions, and public talks, please get in touch via email.