Andrew Chan’s architecture training and childhood love for building plastic model kits merged with knowledge from old DIY craft books. Now h creates works using papier-mache, a method that appears fragile but is durable enough to function as furniture, using this perceived fragility to denote a precarious survival instinct.

In drawing, the basis of all his work, Andrew uses an edgy and/or frenetic line that conveys his interest in entropy and its consequent cycle of construction and deconstruction. In his work, line is a measure by which the organic and the inorganic emerge to create representations – in some cases, bordering on caricatures – of people and objects. Working in unison, the elements tell a story that can be both compelling and disturbing.