Edith Tzu Fen Lin - Fiber Artist
An artist, a designer, an observer
and a pattern collector...
Born in Taipei, Edith Tzu Fen Lin graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design in 2013. She then worked as a designer and an executive planner in AGUA Design and City Yeast till 2018. During this period of working, she established her interests on crocheting and applied her 3D modelling skill on soft sculptural pieces. She even started to crochet various art pieces with non-conventional materials (used plastic bags) since 2016. With consciousness of trash crisis, she began more zero waste projects with overused plastic bags, jeans and textile waste.
In 2018, Tzu-Fen began her practices on different fiber experiences around Taiwan and gradually moved from a hobbyist to an amateur artist. Edith devoted to open up people's imagination towards knitting thus started her own brand "Gogozi Crochet" in 2018. Besides her own work, she also took part in a zero waste youth art community “Give to Gift” and “NO!W Across Lab” in 2019.
With her design background, Tzu-Fen developed her unique insight in daily life. She tends to see things from the essence of a subject and transform into art pieces. She is obsessed with nature phenomena, organisms, daily life patterns, traditional crafts and culture. Tzu-Fen is adept in applying non-conventional materials, urban waste and neglected common objects in her work. She identified herself through her unique observation, life collection and cross culture exchange.
From her point of view, art is a way to awaken people's perspective to see things with conscious mind. Art can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Education
2008 - 2013
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Bachelor of Industrial Design
Minor in Applied Foreign Languages
2010 - 2011
Copenhagen University College of Engineering
(Ingeniørhøjskolen i København)
International Design Semester of Autumn 2010
European Project Semester of Spring 2011
Work Experience
2013 - 2018
Agua Design and City Yeast
Designer, Executive Planner
and Workshop Curator
2016
Representative project:
Re-Create Taipei project management
WDC International Design Open Call project
Bubble Station. intervention for Water Tank Park and Swings Park with Spanish Basurama collective.
Exhibitions
Solo
2023
North Coast Artist in Residence: Weaving the Dream Together about The Sea
Taiwan Environmental Sculpture Association (TESA) Creative Center
2022
Nature, Shapes and Materials
Planter, Taipei
2019
Lichenscapes
Yongle Fabric Market (T-Fashion #3007)
Group
2024
Formosa North Coast Arts Festival 2024: Walking the Shoreline
Jhongjiao Visitor Center, North Coast, New Taipei City
2024 Island Drift
Xinhu Harbor, Kinmen
2024 Tsan A Liau Mountain Village Art Festival
TaiPing Art Hub, Keelung
2024 Yangmingshan Art Festival X Tianmu Waterway Festival
Tianmu Sports Park
2023
Matsu Biennial: Marine debris art in Niujiao
NiuJiao Community, Nangan Island, Matsu
co-created with Fang-Yi Yang, Chun-tso Lin
"As You Spore, So Shall You Reap" AiR Final Exhibition
Sea To See Bookafé, Keelung
Forestry Island - Eco Art Festival
Samaji Campground, Xiao Liu Qiu Island, Pingtung County
Qing-Shui Art Village 2023 Green Arts Festival
Qingshui Military Community Culture Park, Taichung
2022
XOXO Sensing Nature
Banqiao 435 Art Zone, New Taipei City
Taiwan Design Expo
Kaohsiung Port Warehouse No.5, Design Zone, Kaohsiung
FLOW: Furong'ao Festival
Xiwei Peninsula Antenna Shop, Nangan Island, Matsu
Documenta fifteen
Hübner areal, Kassel, Germany
Qing-Shui Art Village 2022 Green Arts Festival
Qingshui Military Community Culture Park, Taichung
2021
Qing-Shui Art Village 2021 Art Residency
Qingshui Military Community Culture Park, Taichung
Luzhunan Haocaitou Art Festival
Lu Zhu Nan Village, Toufen City, Miaoli
2020
Field Trip Project Asia Taiwan
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology, Keelung
Invited as NO!W Across Lab, co-created with Fang-Yi Yang
Walking into a Hakka Living Room: Touring Exhibition of Taipei City Hakka Cultural Center
Multi-Purpose Classroom Building, National Taiwan University
From the starting point to destination: Recreating Material and Skill Through Fiber Art Experiments
1F, B1 of Craft Design Center, National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute, Caotun, Nantou County
Luoshanfeng Arts Festival Artist-in-residence
Hai-Kou Village, Checheng Township, Pingtung County
Invited as NO!W Across Lab, co-created with Fang-Yi Yang
2019
New Taipei City Wetland Art Festival
Xinhai Constructed Wetland
Monster Haunted in THAV
Tresure Hill Artist Village
City Flip-Flop “Circulation” segment
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab
Invited as NO!W Across Lab, co-created with Fang-Yi Yang
Wanhua Horiecho Art Festival
Taipei Women's Center
Invited as NO!W Across Lab
Artist-in-residence Program
Taipei City Hakka Cultural Park
Inside a Whale's Stomach
Hualien
Invited and co-created with NO!W Across Lab
2018
Art Weaving Festival
Former Miaoli Train Station
Re-Symbiont ?!
Treasure Hill Artist Village
Daily Containers: Memories of Salt
in Yancheng District
Yancheng Market & 67 Textile Studio
Artist Residency
2023
2023 North Coast Artist in Residence
Taiwan Environmental Sculpture Association (TESA) Creative Center
Marine debris art in Niujiao —— Island Faces
NiuJiao Community, Nangan Island, Matsu
"As you spore, so shall you reap" Artist-in-Residence
TaiPing Art Hub, Keelung
2022
Weaving Residency at FLOW: Furong'ao Festival
Xiwei Peninsula Antenna Shop, Nangan Island, Matsu
2021
Qingshui Military Community Culture Park
Qingshui, Taichung
Luzhunan Haocaitou Art Festival
Toufen City, Miaoli
2020
Luoshanfeng Arts Festival Artist-in-residence
Hai-Kou Village, Checheng Township, Pingtung County
"Tensile" Installation in CMP Village
CMP Village, Miaoli
Designed by Lua Rivera,
co create with Tzu-Fen Lin and Fang-Yi Yang
2019
Artist-in-residence Program
Taipei City Hakka Cultural Park
Media
2022
2021
video_Taichung City Seaport Art Center
2021 Qingshui Military Community Culture Park Artist in Residency
2020
2019
video_Bamboo Curtain Studio
Tzu Fen Lin Solo exhibition: Lichenscapes