Ines Yan Mei Ng

Graduate Diploma 24/25
image of a young woman with long pink hair and dark eyes.
Arm wearing a large variety of bracelets over a white studio background.
Arm wearing a large variety of bracelets over a white studio background.
Memory Bracelets: Grounded in personal experience, Memory Bracelets responds to a need for objects of care catered to adult women with Inattentive-type ADHD. Through the lens of jewellery design, I developed analogue , non-medicinal aids for managing the struggles of everyday tasks in a user-centric and dignified manner.
White curve of laser-cut plastic with concentric grooves across a black background.
White curve of laser-cut plastic with concentric grooves across a black background.
Speed of Light//Speed of Sound: An exploration into the act of materialising sound and working with tool limitations as an asset rather than a hindrance. Inspired by Soviet bone records and in collaboration with a laser cutter, I explored new means for transcribing and duplicating audio at the intersect of digital and analogue systems.
Scanography image of a blue tamagotchi in a blurred and wavy dreamlike fashion.
Scanography image of a blue tamagotchi in a blurred and wavy dreamlike fashion.
Living Artefacts: 'Living Artefacts' questions our relationship with the care of inanimate pets, using the 1997 toy Tamagotchi as a initial point of inquiry. Through the lens of this toy, I examine our relationship with nostalgia and death in the digital age. I explore the selfhood imparted to objects by our act of care, and how they can care for us in turn.
a macro image of two ants against a blue background, seemingly in a tender embrace.
a macro image of two ants against a blue background, seemingly in a tender embrace.
Through A Glass, Darkly: 'Through A Glass, Darkly' questions how we project human stories onto ant societies. Using Hollywood-style vignettes filmed on miniature sets, I examine the pervasive tendency in myrmecology to rationalise ant behavior through human comparisons. These anthropomorphic interpretations reveal more about our own ideologies than actual ant behavior. The work creates unsettling moments that encourage viewers to acknowledge how easily we superimpose our experiences onto other species, challenging the limitations of understanding the natural world through a purely human lens.
Arm wearing a large variety of bracelets over a white studio background.
White curve of laser-cut plastic with concentric grooves across a black background.
Scanography image of a blue tamagotchi in a blurred and wavy dreamlike fashion.
a macro image of two ants against a blue background, seemingly in a tender embrace.

About

My name is Ines Yan Mei Ng, and I am a multidisciplinary designer and maker whose practice is rooted in storytelling, play, and delight. Ever since I was a child, I have wrapped myself in imagined worlds.

Informed by my mixed heritage and a background in science, I explore our relationships with non-human actors and invite deeper reflection on the narratives we construct about ourselves and the natural world. I also am deeply interested in the power of play. My work aims to spark curiosity, nostalgia and emotional connection. Spanning casting, woodworking, sculpting, painting, coding, sound, and video, I engage with cross-disciplinary practices to bring my work to life.

I believe there is real power in charming and even somewhat silly work – there is a magical pause that comes when something interrupts our grown-up sensibilities in a moment of delight – it disarms us of our preconceptions and invites joyful and curious engagement.

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