Wild Tenderness

Participants

Zhiti Yang
Zhiti Yang is a curator and conceptual designer whose practice centres on shaping interactive spaces where visual art and music unfold in dynamic conversation. His early work examines Western art through the lens of traditional Chinese philosophy and musical arrangement, exploring relationships between culture, perception and form.His curatorial approach draws on natural materials and processes, with a focus on materiality and ecological connection. His work considers the relationship between human experience, artistic encounter and the natural environment.

Haoran Liu
Haoran Liu is a Melbourne/Naarm-based architecture designer and curator of Wild Tenderness. Working at the intersection of spatial practice, material research and curatorial experimentation, his work investigates how matter, structure and atmosphere construct emotional and perceptual experiences.Through architectural design and cross-disciplinary installations, he explores the tactile intelligence of materials – how surfaces hold memory, how structure reveals intention, and how detail mediates between human body and built form. His practice moves between constructed space and conceptual inquiry, seeking design methodologies that foreground material authenticity over surface styling.

Zhuoyang Li
Sunny Li is a Melbourne/Naarm-based musician and curator working across the classical and contemporary fields of sound. With a passion to explore soundscape design and spatial immersion through music, his experiments span the relationships between audible art and visual art.His work explores how sound can amplify the experience of objects and space, and how it can operate alongside visual forms.

Lishu Guo
Lishu Guo is a cross-disciplinary artist working across metalsmithing and installation.Drawing from traces of nature and human presence – shed deer antler, turquoise, plant powders, seeds and recycled fabric – she composes with materials that carry their own histories. Silver and brass become connective tissue: hard metal cradles the warmth of antler, while soft fabric holds space for fragile plant matter.Through these unions, her work asks how we might rediscover a bond with the natural world. Rather than centring the human body as the measure of meaning, her pieces foreground cycles of growth, shedding, decay and repair. Whether worn or installed, the work operates as a form through which nature is expressed, shaped through human hands.

Minjeong Park
Minjeong Park is a Korean artist working primarily with paper as a medium to explore form and texture. Through an intuitive, hands-on process, she reforms discarded paper into sculptural objects that carry both material memory and renewed presence.

Lilian Fung
Lilian Fung is a Melbourne/Naarm-based contemporary jeweller working across metal and bio-derived materials. Her practice investigates how value, care and resilience are constructed through material transformation. Using oxidised silver and plant-based composites, she explores tensions between hardness and tenderness, containment and emergence. Through wearable structures that negotiate compression and growth, her work positions jewellery as an intimate site where ecological sensitivity and embodied experience intersect. Lilian’s practice reframes ornament as relational architecture, proposing that softness can persist within hardened systems.

333 Lab
Founded in 2025, 333 Lab is an interdisciplinary design studio headquartered in Melbourne/Naarm, with collaborative operations in Suzhou, exploring the boundaries between avant-garde art and product innovation.Guided by a recursive, three-part structure, the studio develops an evolving design approach that explores relationships between technology and aesthetics. Through a transdisciplinary lens, 333 Lab examines the fluidity of everyday life, where aesthetics and utility are in constant dialogue. It brings together creators from diverse backgrounds – artists, designers, curators, engineers and scientists – to collaborate and prototype new possibilities for art and commerce.

Bella Chen
Bella Chen is a Melbourne/Naarm-based designer and interdisciplinary creative whose practice is grounded in graphic design. Growing up between languages as a Chinese immigrant, she developed a sensitivity to communication beyond words. Through a concept-led approach, she transforms personal and cultural experiences into physical and digital forms that examine identity, perception and connection.