NICKY CHUE
Filmmaker & Creative
DIGITAL ART, ILLUSTRATION & POETRY
Stichflamme
2021
Digital art & poem
Stichflamme is a visual poem that explores how harmful relationships can make us lose focus and distort our sense of self, and how it is sometimes forces outside of ourselves that help us gain perspective.
Published August 2021
Folklore For Resistance
issue 03: Fire
A percentage of proceeds goes to the Karrkad Kanjdji Trust as part of FFR's commitment to reparation and working toward restoring their relationship with being on stolen land.
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Hatchling
2020
Digital art & poem
The whispers are growing: Something has been festering in the forest swampland, feeding on the fog. The demon trees have been unusually quiet as of late.
And what is that smell?
Published December 2020
Cryptid County Digest
issue 01: Tales From Around The Fire
Excerpt
Thicket - a manifestation
with labradorite
2020
Digital art & poem
Thicket - a manifestation with labradorite is an exploration of survival and rebirth in the wake of individual and collective upheaval and an ode to community, pieced together from old film, uprooted memories, tree branches and a a labradorite crystal.
Published November 2020
SKEW - The Level Ground magazine
issue 02: Black Dreams, Futures, & Mutual Support
Curated & created by an all-Black team, all sales will be shared among the 50+ Black artists whose work is in the magazine.
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selfie
2020
Digital art & poem
This started out as a self-portrait but transformed into somebody else. Maybe it's you?
Published July 2020
Nomadic Youth London zine
issue 2: Black Lives Matter / Pride 2020
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folk lore
2020
Digital art & poem
I feel nature in my bones.
I want to tug at my roots and draw from the ground just one tale of my ancestors' lives.
but my lap is empty.
I do not know where I come from.
it is a geographical fact that my people were robbed of our histories. all the lore we have preserved despite this
is a gift.
the dead have no stories to tell me.
so I will write my own.
✧ ubi mel ibi apes ✧
(love letters to QTIBIPOC friends)
2020
Digital art
past, present & future
Published July 2020
mixed rice zines
issue 4: "queering friendships"
All proceeds go to Black trans / GNC / non-binary communities.
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xylocopa violacea
2020
Digital art & poem
a spell (+ a Spotify playlist)
Published July 2020
sweet thang zine
issue 6: "healing"
A percentage of proceeds goes to FOR THE GORLS, an organisation aiding Black & Trans people with housing and affirmative surgery.
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Nettles
2020
Digital art & poem
When all is woven and unspun
with skin grown thick, calloused and strong
will spring uncurl our beaten hands
or will we weave again?
Published July 2020
sweet thang zine
issue 6: "healing"
A percentage of proceeds goes to FOR THE GORLS, an organisation aiding Black & Trans people with housing and affirmative surgery.
Excerpt
Gale
2019
Illustration & monologue
Plant stories zine
issue 1: "healing"
Publishing date TBC
Excerpt
Endless
2018
Collage
Published September 2018
AFROPUNK x 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Present: People Art Resistance