​​​Heyse Ip (b.1995, Hong Kong) is a visual artist working in London and Hong Kong. His practice translates systems of perception drawn from animals and technology into familiar environments to create absurd yet strangely familiar technological objects. His practice explores and challenges preconceived hierarchies between humans, animals and machines, often by adopting or performing from a non-human perspective.

 

Working across sculpture, installation and sound, his sonic sculptures and installations draw on our collective associations with both natural and urban environments. The works aim to suggest speculative landscapes where the boundaries between human, animal and machine become fluid, prompting us to reflect on what it means to be human in such contexts. Rather than presenting direct critique or answers, his work often utilises ‘mediated’ animal-centric and non-human viewpoints as a means to create distance; to create space for more ambiguous interpretations of our human position, inviting reflections on broader considerations of hierarchies, control, perception and the treatment of other beings.

 

As a duo with the artist regiment, Heyse explores these ideas of humanness through site-specific sculptural and sonic installations. Their interest in the fundamental relationship between sound and space leads them to create different sculptures where the shapes, forms and materials are extracted from or mirror the existing architecture. Their performance of these objects are seen more as activations, and are mostly improvisational. Interested in a more object-oriented approach, these sounds, not being confined to a particular musical language, are a spectrum of innate potential musical qualities of the objects themselves.

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Heyse Ip's work has been exhibited internationally including solo exhibitions:

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Animoid Song, Hong Kong Arts Centre (2025)

Capturing an Image, Lumenvisum, Hong Kong (2019)

 

Select group exhibitions:

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Five Years, London (2023, 2024, 2026)​

nProjekt, Hong Kong (2025)

Soluna, Hong Kong (2025)

Dystopia Sound Art Biennial, Berlin (2024),

Medienfrische Art Festival, Tirol, Austria (2024),

GRUND1535, Tirol, Austria (2022)

Montez Press Radio, New York (2022)

Space 52, Athens (2021)

Plicnik Space Initiative, London (2020) 

 

He holds an  MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Arts, UK (2022)

and a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, UK (2018).