Taey Iohe

Image credits: Blooding, Taey Iohe

Taey Iohe is an artist, writer, and listener, born near the Han River and now based by the River Lea and Ching. Working fluidly across sound, language, moving image, and collective practice, their work is rooted in the anti-colonial sense of belonging, tracing forms of leakage across bodies, landscapes, and archives through an eco-crip and queer feminist lens. 

Attuned to environmental hormones, reproductive justice, and racial biopolitics, Taey is drawn to what leaks—from bodily thresholds to planetary systems—as both a sign of harm and a gesture toward repair. Their practice examines what travels and transforms across borders in waterways and ecotone zones, with a current focus on the Thames Estuary and Derry. Often working collaboratively and with slow, nurturing methods, they engage ecological and corporeal damage through a deliberate, durational rhythm.

Taey co-founded the practice-based research collective, Decolonising Botany and presented A Refusing Oasis at Documenta 15, a durational work of solidarity within anti-colonial struggles. They are currently developing a critical rewilding publication for the upcoming Estuary Festival. Taey was awarded a fellowship from Serpentine Galleries’ Support Structures in 2024. They teach Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, where they run Deep Weather Studio — a pedagogical platform nurturing ecological practices through interspecies solidarity and abolitionary listening.