Noel Cheung|Curator|Ceramicist
Noel Cheung 張知行

⸰ 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

The Stories We Carry
2025

Location: Rich Mix, London
— Have you ever felt like an exile? 
Where did your journey begin, and where has it led you?

As part of the participatory exhibition Forming New Folklores: Made in Exile, I led a series of clay handbuilding workshops exploring the complicated realities of displacement and the feelings of alienation. 

Around the table, hands pressed, pulled, and scored clay into small vessels and objects, each one holding a fragment of memory, loss, endurance or hope.

Clay remembers touch. It yields, but it resists. It cracks under pressure. It holds warmth. In its softness and strength, we found a language for what it means to carry history in the body.

Exile is not about disappearance. It is the sharp clarity of standing outside of what once named you. It is the ache of distance and the slow work of redefinition. Removed from familiar ground, you begin again, not by abandoning the past, but by holding its weight differently.

In my practice, I return to the ordinary - daily rituals, small negotiations, the quiet persistence of becoming. I carry my roots with me, but I refuse to let them anchor me in place. There is a rare freedom in choosing to move forward while honouring what has shaped you. Here, I choose to face the unknown without fear.

Event website: https://richmix.org.uk/events/made-in-exile/