Chua employs a method of working that unfurls and reveals the painter's process through diagram, palimpsest, syntax, and the glitch.
While notions of nature and wilderness persist across several works, the form taken by her exhibitions – image, text or object – is mediated through painting.
In 2011, she was selected for the BMW Young Asian Artist Series III at STPI - Creative Workshop & Gallery and the Late Fall Residency at The Banff Centre.
[13] A work commissioned by the Singapore Biennale,[14] the installation consists of 2 videos and graphite drawings on black walls.
The installation is illuminated by 3 sources of light, sunlight from the door-less entrance; the overhead projection from the video; and the flicker emitted from the plasma screen.