Heiyi Tam is a Hong Kong-born artist based in London. Her practice explores memory and impermanence through a childlike way of seeing.

Working intuitively with layered washes, gestural mark-making and her signature organic bean-like forms, she merges Eastern ink sensibilities with contemporary abstraction. Titles play a central role in her practice, introducing playful, poetic and sometimes oddly specific narrative fragments that sit in subtle tension with the image, such as Easter eggs, hungry crocodiles and cereal box puzzles.

Growing up in Hong Kong before moving to the UK at fifteen, Tam draws on cultural landscapes, flavours and sensory memory to create paintings that blur the line between remembered experience and imagined possibility. Her paintings inhabit the uncertain space between recollection and imagination, where the ordinary quietly slips into the surreal.

Tam has earned international recognition as a finalist for the Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2026, shortlisted for the 14th Edition of The Signature Art Prize, and longlisted for ArtEvol 2025 at Saatchi Gallery, London. In 2024, she was also a finalist for The Hari Art Prize (London), judged by senior figures from White Cube and Collective Ending HQ. Previous accolades include winning The Other Art Fair: New Futures Award (2023) and being runner-up in the Tiepolo Blue Art Prize (2022), judged by art critic James Cahill and Maggi Hambling CBE.