Kim Wu

I am a South African-born digital artist focused in the realms of illustration, animation, and storytelling. My fascination with the “untold story”, where the subjects in my work often go unnoticed in the everyday stream of information and imagery, has led me to recreating my personal delight in discovering the natural world and sharing it in a public sphere.

Deeply inspired by human experience, my works explore the relationship between humans and living world. My use of emotive imagery aims to evoke the “inner child” in my audiences - to play, touch and experience the world from a shifted perspective.

As an avid reader of books during my childhood, I gained an appreciation of education through storytelling. My works serve to showcase and celebrate creature and human forms that are conveyed through a whimsically colourful style and minute details, which encourages the audience to come closer toward the artworks, observe as if in nature, and spend time piecing