JR CHUO is a UK-based artist working with paper, whose practice examines climate systems through coral reef structures.

Selected press:

Coral restoration project.

Through a collaboration with environmental NGO Coralive, JR CHUO supports coral restoration projects in the Maldives and Madagascar, helping create a real-life ‘CHUO Reef.’

Corals planted so far: 296

'Between Order and Chaos: The Paper Cut Art of JR CHUO’

‘Through hand-cut paper, acrylic, and filtered light, CHUO constructs complex visual systems that oscillate between organic growth and urban infrastructure’

WEGO Japan feature curated by Yasumasa Yonehara

Photography by Yasumasa Yonehara

Videography by Rui Katoh