Heiyi Tam

Heiyi Tam is a Hong Kong-born, London-based artist whose work explores reimagined memories and stories through textures, layers and flavours through painting and poetry.

Heiyi Tam’s vibrant works combine memories, moments and flavours resulting in sensorial compositions and stories. Tam’s work is inspired by the fallibility of memories and the ephemerality of everyday moments. She explores sensorial qualities of specific moments such as the bursts of sweetness from strawberries or the smell and textures of freshly cut grass. Tam creates ‘reimagined memories and stories’, and the titles of her work often reveal glimpses of the inspiration and flavours behind each creation. Tam was recognised by curator Lee Sharrock as one of the upcoming rising stars in 2023 and was recently longlisted for the Homiens Art Prize 2024 and The London Magazine Feb/March 2024 Issue Cover. In 2023, she received The Other Art Fair: New Futures Award, was shortlisted for the Tension Gallery Prize and was longlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize. In 2022, she was the runner-up in the Tiepolo Blue Art Competition, judged by James Cahill and renowned artist Maggi Hambling CBE. She was also awarded the fourth prize in the Landmark Art Prize after being shortlisted in the Top 50.