12 month wall calendar designed by Loi Xuan Ly as part of Will Pham's artwork for Deptford X Visual Arts Festival 2025.
This calendar was co-created with participants in the Recipes of Life workshops and is also a calendar/artist book/documentation of the project. Available for sale in either English or Vietnamese language.
With thanks to Will Pham (Artist), Loi Xuan Ly (Graphic designer), Louise Tse (Photographer), Wayne La (Photographer), Simon Lam (Proofreader), Kelly Loi (Set Designer), Koa Pham (Vietnamese translator), Dr Lili Ly and Dr Angela Byrne (Project Facilitators), Deptford X and Vietnamese Family Partnership.
Ngon Quá was a multi-channel moving image installation and a co-created project with cooking sessions where community participants reflect on their Vietnamese heritage through ‘Recipes of Life’ in Deptford. Rooted in themes of diaspora, migration and cultural identity, the exhibition uses food as agents of memory, story sharing and intergenerational healing, within the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
Will is interested in the ways Recipes of Life (original concept by Natale Rudland Wood), can be continuously adapted and used in multiple scenarios to bring communities together. He has co-created special lunches at Evelyn Community Centre as part of the Elderly Luncheon Club, a series of Recipes of Life workshops for 2nd generation British Vietnamese Chinese people, an outing trip to Margate Beach to listen to each others stories and a Cooking Calendar with participants recipes and stories, which all lead to and sit alongside his exhibition at Enclave. Throughout this project, Will’s approach has been exploring the boundaries between community engagement and artistic practice and centering the stories of individual and community life.
Will Pham is a commissioned Deptford X 2025 Artist.
Will Pham is a British-Vietnamese artist working in video, performance, painting and socially engaged practice. His work explores intergenerational care, cultural inheritance, and refugee narratives within the UK. Will graduated from the Postgraduate Fine Art programme at the Royal Academy Schools in 2018 and BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2013.
Solo exhibitions and commissions include Ngon Quá, Lake Space, Deptford X (2025), VMHS Legacy Project, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023), Little Vietnam, Turf Projects (2019) and An Viet (Well Settled), Royal Academy Schools (2018).
Group exhibitions and events include 50: Vietnamese Boat Refugees Then & Now, Richmix (2025); Arts’ Ugly Right?, Danielle Arnaud Gallery (2025); Recipes of Life, ESEACC (2025); Open Day, Centre 151 (2024); You Belong Here, Southbank Centre (2024); From (Counter-)Archives to Activation, esea contemporary, Manchester (2024); A Night of Performances with VLC Band & Will Pham and bones tan jones, Asymmetry Art Foundation (2024); Late at Tate- Lunar New Year curated by Trâm Nguyen and June Lam, Tate Britain (2024); New Work Series, LUX Moving Image (2024); Reimagining VMHS, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023); The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (2022); Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery (2022); Nang Tu Do- Archives in the Camps, CUHK, Hong Kong (2020-21); Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, An Viet Foundation (2018); and Premiums: Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Art (2017).
He was an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 2023, teaching his own unit ‘Archives On the Move’ as part of Urgency of the Arts. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer (studio practice) at Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art & History of Art in 2024 and Visiting Lecturer to lead 3rd year crits for BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2024 and 2025. He is Visiting Lecturer for BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University in 2025 and 2026.
He was awarded residencies and grants from Arts Council England Project Grant (2025), The Elephant Trust Award (2024), Eaton Fund (2024), CFCCA Breathe Award to Taipei Artist Village (2018) and the Gasworks Triangle Fellowship to HANGAR, Lisbon (2015). Will lives and works in London.