Hammer Chen won the BBA Artist Award in 2024 for her Piece ‘The Light Collector’ Hammer is a printmaking artist based in Shanghai and Bristol. Hammer’s work is informed by the idea of memory, travel, and arousing a nostalgic sense through cinematic imagery. She explores how to best echo the transformation from factual documentation to personal perception, through the manipulation of photography on a printmaking matrix. Her images are not only of a lived reality: they are imagined memories rebuilt from collective experiences.