Kit Wu-Bylett b. 1988 is a studio artist based out of TILES in Lewisham, NSW Australia, on the ancestral lands of the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Eora Nation.

 

I offer you my vitality for your pleasure      ♡      


Kit Wu-Bylett’s multi-disciplinary practice dips into the social and cultural currencies that they cash-in and splash-out in the name of self expression. Their works derive from personal encounters of forming and performing identity, especially through our chosen accoutrements and rituals of manicure. In a twisted game of capitalist self-portraiture, Kit sifts through inherent familial gifts and cultural conditioning to distill consumable objects of desire.

Kit’s work is expressed through installation and sculpture, video, fashion garments, and performance. They present as seamlessly integrated with common modes of consumption, such as retail displays, service provider environments, instructional videos, catalogues and infomercials, and recently in runway performances. Her works often look to the intesection of the human body and familiar objects and edibles such as candies, organ meat, dough, ceremonial fruit and TCM medicinal plants. The cultural basis of of their work stems directly from lived-experience as a person of Hong Kong-Chinese and British ancestry, and growing up in so-called Australia.

Kit Wu-Bylett is an emerging Eora-based artist who has shown in solo and group shows at Cement Fondu, Pari, Tiles Lewisham, Our Neon Foe, Articulate Project Space, and Durden and Ray (Los Angeles). Kit’s practice is often collaborative, with recent accomplices including Ariel Ruby, Jacquie Meng, Akila da Killa, Fei Gao, Emma Harbridge, Atoc Malou, Monica Rani Rudhar, and Rachel Levine.

She has been involved in projects with Worship Queer Collective and Kaleidoscope Collective, showing work and performing with these LGBTQIA+ communities at The Red Rattler Theatre, The Bearded Tit, and 107 Projects. Kit also performed at Performance Space’s The Pleasure Arc for 2023 World Pride.