Her artiste subjects – breasts, bums, penises, and vaginas – have not changed. She conceded that her style matured over time, with her signature colour scheme staying consistent. In 2016, when Claudia began uploading her creations on Instagram, a medium she favours to this day due to its collaborative nature. This project opened my eyes a lot, planting a seed in my head that I can do something a bit more different.” “I always knew I loved to draw, but believed I would become a graphic designer. Having been drawing and painting since a very early age, and with her experience at art school, Claudia did not want her academic work and research at UAL to go to waste, and sought to impress her graphic design skills to “recycle” her studies and turn into illustrations. As a former Sunday School attendee and child of religious Catholic parents, she sought to write about the sexual ostracization of women, discussing her experiences of dating, approaching female sexuality, and seeing how women’s bodies are traded and seen. The inspiration of Claudia’s vivacious pink bubble-butts, green studded limp penises, jutting breasts with impossibly perky nipples, and vaginas with symmetrically framed labia lays in academic in situ as part of a research project the artist completed while studying at London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London (UAL).Įnrolling at a local Hong Kong art school at 17, before travelling to London to study graphic and media design, Claudia tasked herself to explore her own sexuality and femme identity in a dissertation research project. “A simple slogan can’t change everything,” she adds.
A post shared by 🧠 x 👀 by Claudia Chanhoi © producing provoking images spanning half a decade since 2016, Claudia admits “she doesn’t want to change the world,” but counters with a real experience of what it means to be female in the face of modern feminism, which has tended to become “super commercialised.”
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