Mui Ngo-suet, Charlotte

Charlotte Mui Ngo Suet is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, divination, object-making and archives. Her practice explores mythologies, micro-histories and cultural inheritance across diaspora, with a particular interest in matriarchal knowledge and in how art can keep the dead and the spiritual close to the living.

Two inherited methodologies shape her work. The archive, grounded in her background in librarianship and collections management, is a living form of care: a way of preserving ordinary lives, relationships and knowledge that might otherwise disappear. Divination, meanwhile, is rooted in her family’s own spiritual practice. Where the archive keeps the dead close through what they left behind, divination keeps the relationship alive. Drawing on research into decolonisation, art history and the rituals of a first-generation diasporic family, her work sits deliberately at the intersection of illustrative and fine art traditions, treating devotional painting, folk art and the decorative arts as equal partners to contemporary art.

Alisan Fine Arts has collaborated with Mui since 2021, holding her first solo exhibition, Have A Rice Day, in 2022, and showing at Cromwell Place, London (2023) and Art SG, Singapore (2024). Her divination decks, L’Œil de L’Âme Tarot (2021) and The Gwai Lenormand (2022), are held in the collections of Tate Library, iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and the College of Psychic Studies, London, UK; Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong.

She was Collections Assistant at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong from 2018 to 2023 before relocating to London. She subsequently worked as Assistant Librarian at iniva from 2023 to 2026,  and is continuing as Communications Coordinator. In 2026, she was awarded Developing Your Creative Practice funding from Arts Council England to extend her work into ceramics, oral history and interactive digital storytelling.