projects: work with me
niceaunties creates surreal, layered worlds that explore auntie culture, ageing, and identity, spanning installations, video works, sculpture, brand collaborations, and public art presented internationally across galleries, museums, and urban spaces.
Each project extends the Auntieverse into new territory, from oceanic civilisations to jelly metropolises, from interactive mirrors to moonlit cooking schools.
Aunties in Dis Place, 2024
Time of the Nice Aunties, 2026
The Gallery of Hidden Salt, 2026
The Rain Artist, 2023
Mirror into the Auntieverse, 2025
The Greenists, 2024
It's Jelly Time, Baby!
The beauty of longevity, 2025
Commission
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Under a microscope, salt forms tiny cubic crystals. In this project, those cubes are reimagined as mischievous little characters from the auntieverse. Developed for a campaign by Singapore’s Health Promotion Board to “make salt visible,” the artworks transform three beloved hawker dishes: fishball noodle soup, mee siam and Indian rojak, into playful environments inhabited by cube-shaped sodium creatures.
These tiny characters gather wherever salt is most concentrated, lounging, splashing and causing a bit of chaos in the saltiest parts of each dish. Their presence makes the invisible visible. In every scene, aunties encounter the sodium creatures in humorous face-offs that communicate a simple idea: salt itself is not the enemy, but excess can be.
Growing up, aunties were the quiet guardians of the family’s well-being, often expressing care through food. This project draws on that cultural role, inviting viewers to look again at familiar dishes and to notice the sodium quietly hiding within them.
Client
The Gallery of Hidden SaltYear
2026
Gallery Collaboration
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In Mirror into Auntieverse, the act of photography is redefined as an encounter between light, technology, and cultural memory. Produced in collaboration with Load Gallery, the installation transforms a 19th-century Napoleon III mirror into an interactive screen that reflects the visitor’s body while replacing their face with that of an “auntie” from the artist’s speculative Auntieverse. Motion capture and real-time rendering bring each auntie to life as she delivers candid, affectionate remarks, articulating what the artist calls the “auntie love language,” where humour and bluntness conceal deep care.
The work draws upon art-historical traditions of reflection, from Van Eyck to Manet, and Asian folklore in which mirrors reveal the soul. Playfully subverting the fairy-tale trope of “Mirror, mirror on the wall,” the installation turns vanity into self-awareness.
Accompanying the mirror are black-and-white AI-generated portraits presented in informal, domestic frames that recall 1970s studio photographs, alongside 13 animated auntie portraits minted on the Tezos blockchain. Together, they explore ageing, visibility, and empathy, affirming, as Niceaunties notes, that “there is an auntie in all of us.”
Client
Artverse Gallery at Paris Photo, curated by GridaYear
2025
Brand collaboration
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For L’Oréal Group’s private event The Beauty of Longevity, Niceaunties presented a landmark showcase of the Auntieverse, placing the older Asian woman at the centre of global conversations on beauty, ageing, and care. The entrance featured a hyperrealistic large-scale auntie sculpture, created with sculptor Valter Adam Casotto and inspired by the video Spring Skin, reframing the auntie archetype as a symbol of vitality and transformation. Inside, Fisheye Immersive curated images and moving works from the Spa Menu and Fashion chapters, creating a lush, multidimensional environment exploring skin, renewal, and inner life. Niceaunties also joined a panel discussion, offering Eastern perspectives on ageing, interdependence, and the social frameworks that shape longevity.
Client
L’OréalYear
2025
Press collaboration
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In March 2025, niceaunties was featured in the hard-cover special edition of ELLE DECOR Korea titled The Greenists. This spring issue, released on 1 March 2025, centres on sustainability, design innovation, and creative responses to environmental and cultural change.
niceaunties’ work appeared as a cover feature and in a dedicated 20-page editorial spread, highlighting her practice and its thematic intersections with design, culture, and speculative visual storytelling. The coverage underscored how her projects — particularly those within the Auntieverse — engage with ideas of environment, materiality, and narrative world-building, positioning her creative output within broader conversations about innovation, aesthetics, and social imaginaries.
The Greenists issue showcases global and conceptual design thinking that aligns with emerging priorities in sustainability and creative imagination. niceaunties’ inclusion signals recognition from a leading international design publication and situates her work alongside other contemporary practices engaging critically with form, culture, and future narratives.
Client
ELLE Decor KoreaYear
2025
Brand commission
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It’s Jelly Time, Baby is a commissioned social media artwork for Swatch, set in the whimsical Timepiece District of JellyCity, where everything runs like clockwork and, at special moments, magic happens. Inspired by the Swatch SCUBAQUA collection, itself inspired by jellyfish, the piece blends the brand’s aquatic identity with the surreal mythology of the Auntieverse. In this story, two jellies fall in love and, on a full moon night, merged to give rise to the Jelly Swatch watch. Playful, luminous, and delightfully improbable, the work reimagines time, rhythm, and romance through the wobbly logic of JellyCity.
Client
SwatchYear
2025
Commission
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Along the River in Auntieverse is a contemporary reimagining of Zhang Zeduan’s famous Song Dynasty scroll painting, Along the River During the Qingming Festival. While Zhang’s original painting depicted the daily life and social structures of Bianjing, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Along the River in Auntieverse transforms this classical composition into a surreal, auntie-filled world where reality and fantasy collide.
This work presents a vertical scroll—a contrast to Zhang’s original horizontal layout—where the river becomes a central thread, connecting landscapes ranging from idyllic nature to environmental collapse. It mirrors real-world concerns such as urbanisation, pollution, and shifting social structures, but through the playful lens of the Auntieverse.
Client
Christie's Art+Tech Summit, NYCYear
2024
Residency
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In December 2024, Niceaunties participated in an art residency at Campo Garzón, a renowned program in Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay, alongside 12 other artists. The residency culminated in the 8th Campo Garzón Art Fest, where site-specific works, performances, and talks were presented throughout the village, exploring the festival’s theme, UN/settled: Migration + Movement.
Pueblo Garzón, once a bustling stopover for gauchos and travellers moving between Argentina and Brazil, has since transformed into a small yet vibrant artistic hub. With a current population of just 170, the village is home to artists and visitors drawn to its unique character. The residency, founded by photographer, writer, and artist Heidi Lender, has become a catalyst for creative exchange, offering artists the opportunity to engage deeply with the environment and community.
Client
Campo GarzónYear
2024
Commission
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In late 2023 niceaunties was commissioned to design the cover for The Rain Artist by C. R.Foster, after Foster saw her jelly umbrella series on Instagram and felt the visual tone aligned with her protagonist. The cover project was realised in collaboration with graphic designer JP Painter, whose design blended contemporary and historic visual elements to reflect the book’s spatial and temporal layers.
The Rain Artist is a speculative, dystopian novel set in a future where rain has become a luxury enjoyed only by the ultra-rich. In this world, the protagonist Celine Broussard, the last umbrella maker, becomes entangled in a high-profile murder accusation and must navigate a society where water, art, and survival are commodified. The story asks how art and artists might endure under intense commercialised capitalism, while probing societal fault lines such as wealth inequality, environmental collapse, and cultural power structures. niceaunties’ involvement demonstrates a convergence between speculative visual practice and narrative world-building, with the jelly umbrella imagery resonating thematically with the book’s exploration of scarcity, value, and creative resilience. The collaboration connects digital art practices with literary publishing in a way that extends both aesthetic and conceptual discourse.
Client
C.R.FosterYear
2023