School of Creative
Industries
Marylyn Chu
Marylyn has vast exposure in airline, travel and retail personalised customer care. She believes her curiosity about people, their cultures and experiences are vital to capturing impressions and accurate empathic understanding.
Her previous experience working with adults with addiction during her Bachelor of Counselling studies, as well as a desire to contribute meaningfully to society, were instrumental to her pursuit of art psychotherapy training.
Through the MA Art Therapy programme, she has had the opportunity to augment her clinical experience by providing therapeutic services to all ages—from children to older adults with cancer—at various hospitals and organisations.
Marylyn is intrigued by the play of light, shadow, movement, intricate details and unique organic shapes. She prefers creating art with texture and capturing images inspired by the creativity in nature through symbolic and tactile methods. Her art involves capturing stories of lived experiences, conveying psychological concepts to validate her budding professional identity.
Work
Impermanence
Organic and non organic found objects (glass, fruits, seeds, shells…)
40 x 45 x 36 cm
(2025)
Complex and intricate patterns of gooseberry leaves and its shiny fruit invoke reflection on the complexity, fragility and transient state of living, thriving versus decaying and dying like human life.
Impermanence depicts brokenness, pain and transiency arising from fragmented lives of clients with cancer transiting to an emotional healing journey with an art therapist, providing a safe holding space to explore existential issues, gain acceptance, and thrive towards freedom and lightness of being.
