A person sits at a desk and uses a craft knife to carve a circle out of a cork board.
Artist

Lydia Chai

Born in Malaysia, Lydia Chai graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004. She makes paintings, videos and more recently, music.

To Chai, painting and music are closely related; with her abstract watercolours she explores musicality and rhythm. In 2010, she formed the former Asian waiata group, Ngāti Āhia. In 2012, she exhibited video work in Running On Pebbles, curated by Allan Smith. In the same year, she began composing pop songs and released a music video on Vimeo for her single "Move."

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    leading voice
    for artist moving image
    practice
    in Aotearoa New Zealand,
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    critical review and
    dialogues
    which reflect our unique, contemporary
    South Pacific context.