Bo-Yi Wu (b. 1998)
is a multidisciplinary artist based between London and Taipei. His practice explores the movement of plants across regions and the ways in whichhumans continue to shape the meaning of nature through systems of classification, governance, and perception. Working primarily with invasive plant species—particularly Japanese knotweed—he employs traditional papermaking techniques to transform plant fibres into sculpture and installation. Through processes of material translation and reconstruction, his work examines how ecological narratives are constructed across cultural, legal, and environmental contexts, while reconsidering the relationships between landscape, institutional systems, and environmental politics.
Exhibitions
2026 Gilbert Bayes Award Winners Exhibition, The Art House, Wakefield, UK
2026 Gilbert Bayes Award Winners Exhibition, TM Gallery, London, UK
2025 Spaceshifting, Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL), London, UK
2025 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition, Burgh House, London, UK
2024 Boundaries of Coexistence, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art degree show, London, UK
2023 When you force a melon from the vine, it won’t be sweet, Safehouse, London,
London, UK
2022 Walking the Line, Experimental Gallery, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2021 HILL, NTUA, New Taipei City, Taiwan
2021 Development and Encroachment, NTUA Experimental Gallery, New Taipei City,
Taiwan
Awards
2025 Gilbert Bayes Award (Winner), Royal Society of Sculptors, London Education
2022-2024 Goldsmiths University of London, MFA Fine Art
2017-2021 National Taiwan University of Arts, BFA Sculpture
Residencies
2026 Artist-in-Residence, Villa Waldberta (City of Munich), Munich, Germany
I am a multidisciplinary artist based between London and Taipei. My practice
explores the movement of plants across regions and the ways in which humans
shape the meaning of nature through systems of classification, governance, and
perception. Working primarily with invasive plant species—particularly Japanese
knotweed—I use traditional papermaking techniques to transform plant fibres into
sculpture and installation.
Through processes of material translation, repetition, and reconstruction, I
investigate how ecological narratives are produced across cultural, legal, and
environmental contexts. My work begins with materials that carry histories of
regulation and control, examining how plants become entangled with ideas of
belonging, threat, and value. By transforming invasive species into handmade paper
and spatial installations, I seek to shift their associations from objects of
environmental management into sites of shared reflection.
Drawing from both contemporary ecological discourse and traditional craft practices,
my work considers the friction between landscape, institutional systems, and
environmental politics, while questioning the boundaries between the natural and
the constructed, the wild and the domestic.
