Portfolio Gallery — Chaiiwi Designs

Artist • Dancer • Lifestyle Designer

Overview A curated portfolio gallery showcasing projects across three creative pillars: Artistic Works, Dance & Movement Projects, and Lifestyle Design. Each project entry includes title, year, medium/discipline, brief description, role(s), and a selection of key images or videos. Organise the gallery so visitors can filter by pillar, year and medium; offer grid and single-project view.

Navigation & Layout

  • Header: logo (wordmark), primary nav (Gallery, About, Services, Contact), search icon, filter dropdowns.

  • Hero panel: rotating spotlight carousel that highlights 3–4 featured projects with brief captions (title, year, pillar).

  • Filter bar: Pillar (All / Artist / Dancer / Lifestyle Designer), Year (dropdown), Medium (Painting, Sculpture, Performance, Choreography, Installation, Set Design, Product, Textile, Workshop, Collaboration).

  • Gallery view options: Masonry grid (variable tile sizes) and list/chronological view. Enable infinite scroll and “load more.”

  • Project cards: thumbnail, title, year, pillar tag, short excerpt (1 line), hover reveal with quick actions (View Project, Play Video).

  • Single-project layout: full-width hero media (image or embedded video), project metadata strip (title, year, pillar, location, collaborators), project summary, process section (sketches, rehearsal clips, moodboard), technical details (materials, dimensions, credits), press & exhibitions, downloadable press kit, related projects carousel, contact / commission CTA.

Project Entry Template (repeatable)

  • Title — Year — Pillar

  • Cover media (image or video thumbnail)

  • Medium/Discipline

  • Role(s)

  • Location/Exhibited at

  • Description (50–100 words — concise, evocative)

  • Process & Concept (80–150 words — insight into ideation, methods, collaboration)

  • Key assets (3–8 images or 1–3 video embeds; captions)

  • Technical details & materials

  • Credits & collaborators

  • Press / Awards / Residencies

  • Tags (for filtering)

  • CTA: “Enquire about commissions” button

Sample Projects (converted to Portfolio entries)

  1. Tidal Memory — 2024 — Artist

  • Cover: wide coastal installation photograph

  • Medium: Installation, Mixed Media

  • Role: Creator, Fabricator

  • Location: Waiheke Island residency show

  • Description: A coastal installation responding to sea-level memories, combining reclaimed timber, hand-dyed textiles and projected archival footage to evoke personal and communal shorelines.

  • Process & Concept: Initiated from interviews with local residents; developed via scale models, textile dye experiments and site-tested projection mapping. Collaborated with a marine ecologist to source ethically reclaimed driftwood

Body On The Line

Digital Collection