Macey Zhao is an interdisciplinary artist working across installation, moving image and text. Trained in fine art practice and currently studying art history and the conservation of Buddhist heritage, her work is shaped less by symbolic reference than by ways of thinking informed by time, material change and preservation.

 

Her practice draws on mythological and narrative structures to explore temporality and impermanence through humour and ambiguity. Rather than offering fixed meanings, her works unfold as forms of storytelling in which belief and collective behaviour quietly produce significance. In her exhibited body of work, pigeons operate as a gesture of personification: a flock standing in for a crowd, and for how human meanings accumulate, erode and persist over time.