Kathryn Tsui is based in the Coromandel Peninsula. The Ahmah Bags Project (2018 – 2022) references Tsui’s Chinese heritage and is a collaboration with her mother Doris Tsui, recalling the time they spent as a family in Hong Kong in the 1970s/80s. The project translates the tartan patterns of mass-produced Hong Kong shopping bags into over 34,000 cross stitches. Commonly known as Ahmah (domestic servant) bags this labour-intensive project involving over 240 hours of repetitive stitching somewhat honours the countless hours of domestic labour – typically undervalued – upon which every household relies. Tsui has a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Auckland University of Technology (2007). Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Summer Salon at Masterworks Gallery, Tāmaki Makaurau; Text Tile at Caves, Melbourne, Australia; Ā Mua: New Lineages of Making at The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt. Tsui will be an artist in residence at Driving Creek Railway in Coromandel later this year.