Artist Statement
Drawing from Chinese visual and literary traditions, including ink, calligraphy, folk aesthetics, architectural motifs, and poetry, Yin engages these elements not simply as cultural symbols, but as living and evolving structures.
Through ongoing experimentation with layered materials, she combines ink and rice paper with other mediums such as oil, printmaking, metal, wood, and resin, while remaining open to new material possibilities. By bringing materials with different physical and visual identities
into dialogue, she explores how forms can shift, accumulate new meanings, and move between different states, while seeking a sense of visual harmony within their differences.
Forms and spatial ideas from Chinese gardens have been part of Yin’s visual memory since childhood, and continue to reappear in her practice through moon gates, garden windows, scholar’s rocks, and artificial mountains. Rather than reproducing these forms, she transforms and reconfigures them, exploring what happens when familiar identities become uncertain: when wood begins to resemble rock, a window becomes a frame for memory, or a garden becomes a remembered place. Through these shifts, her work explores rootedness and displacement as a continual process of becoming rather than a fixed state.
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