Beverly Tu is a fashion designer and mixed media artist who adopts a linear creative process and explores materiality and craftsmanship.  During her artist in residence at Lize Puppet Art Colony, she creates site specific works by upcycling plastic tubes and former prop box to construct her works. She machine knits few fabric swatches to demonstrate her creative process and techniques. Her oeuvre channels the authentic local spirit and exploration of materiality by incorporating a wide array of mediums, ranging from shells, plastic tube, fabric, embroidery to beads.

 

The artist led an Exquisite Corpse game workshop with local residents to gather imagery and information about local comfort food, plants, rituals/ceremony and places. She selects one of the drawings from the participants’ works and sews it onto a mesh fabric. Scavenging from the barn, the artist discovers plastic tubes in few colorways and in various thickness. She machine knits the plastic tubes with other found objects, then conflates two experimental machine knit fabric and the mesh fabric with embroidered imagery to achieve the final work.