Artist Statement
Combining layered painterly gestures, rice paper, textured surfaces, and culturally influenced colour palettes, I explore how materials can hold traces of time, emotional residue, accumulation, and erasure. Chinese ink and rice paper frequently anchor my practice for their unique ability to register both permanence and fragility. I am interested in how marks settle into a surface much like memories settle into the self, fading, shifting, and accumulating over time while never entirely disappearing. While these materials provide a continuous thread throughout my work, I often place them in dialogue with oil paint, copper leaf, metal, and other mediums, allowing experimentation and material encounters to shape the development of each piece.
My recent works are inspired by Chinese garden architecture, particularly moon gates and ornamental see-through windows. Often extending beyond the wall with irregular or fragmented structures, these works echo the spatial experience of framed and sequential viewing. Compositions that partially reveal and obscure transform architectural forms into conceptual portals, creating quiet, contemplative spaces where viewers encounter shifting relationships between past and present, proximity and distance, recognition and estrangement.
Education
2020 – 2021 Art Academy London – Certificate Fine Art
2005 – 2008 Donghua University (Shanghai, China) – MA Artistic Design (Fashion)
2001 – 2005 Donghua University (Shanghai, China) – BA Artistic Design (Fashion)
Awards
Liberty Art Award 2024 , Shortlisted
Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exibition-Winsor & Newton Painting Award, Winner
Art Academy London- Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition prize, Winner
Art Academy London- Autumn Peer Prize, Second Place
Art Academy London- Principal’s Prize, Winner
Group Exhibitions
PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Art Academy London
SALON, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Celebrating Cultural Diversity, Cass Art Kingston
BA Fine Art Degree Show, Art Academy London
Contemporary Portraiture Degree Show, Art Academy London
2022
ALTERA Group Exhibition, Nolia's Gallery , London
2021
Certificate Grad Show, Art Academy London
Talks & Workshops
Through the Moon Gate: A Door to What Remains, Artist Talk, Flava, Handbag Factory, London
A Brush of Love, Portrait Drawing Workshop, London Chinese Community Centre, London
Public & Corporate Displays
Two works on loan and display at Liberty Specialty Markets, 23rd Floor, The Walkie Talkie Building, London
2024–2026
Two works on loan and display at Liberty Specialty Markets, 21st Floor, The Walkie Talkie Building, London
Press
a-n Degree Shows Guide/2024, p30, read more here
Broadcast
2023
Sky Portrait Artist of the Year S10 E6 (Heat 5) contestant
Sky Portrait Artist of the Year S10 E6 (Heat 5) contestant