Weaving the Spiritual: Tingting Xiao’s Contemporary Fabric Practice
30 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In an art world dominated by rapid consumption and digital abstraction, Tingting Xiao’s textile practice stands as a countercurrent
Artist Profile
Digital Empathy: How Lin Wei’s Interactive Art Creates Healing Spaces
26 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In a world dominated by screens, stress, and digital overload, can technology ever truly heal us? For artist Lin Wei, the answer is a confident “yes.”
Ana Benavides: The Emotional Alchemist
26 June 2025 • Tabish Khan
When you’re first confronted with the paintings of Ana Benavides, they pulsate with energy.
Narrating Touch, Archiving Emotion: The Poetic Tactility of Jiayi Yu’s Practice
25 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In the multilayered ecosystem of contemporary art, Jiayi Yu—an artist born in Shenzhen and currently based in London
Tracing Form in Emptiness: The Perceptual Topology of Xiao Deng
24 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In Xiao Deng’s latest work, Wujincang – Qi Series: Water, the viewer is not confronted with a depiction or metaphor… Read More
Cainy Yiru Yan’s Floating Fields: Technological Translation, Elegy, and Postmodern Nomadic Religion
24 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In Twenty Theses on Translation (2006), translation theorist Emily Apter sought to delineate the contours of translation as a process… Read More
The Minor Is Not Small: Turbulence Beneath the Surface
20 June 2025 • Mark Westall
Li Yu’s work echoes this timely themed stillness that we are all living inside. In colors that are calm and materials that are neutral
Unfixed Coordinates: Jialin Wu’s Memory Archaeology and Identity Reconstruction
17 June 2025 • Mark Westall
In the ongoing exploration of identity and memory in contemporary art, Jialin Wu’s work functions like a precise surgical knife
On Yijia Wu’s Materiality of Time
16 June 2025 • Guest
For London-based Chinese artist Yijia Wu, mundane objects become the playground of the absurd.
The Sensation of Things: On the Art of Yijing Miao
13 June 2025 • Mark Westall
When I first saw Yijing Miao’s work, the seductive surfaces drew me immediately, they are plastic, sugar, resin, polymers…
Where the Inner World Meets the Infinite: The Paintings of Assaya
10 June 2025 • Tabish Khan
Emotional portraits and quantum realms.
States of Presence and Disappearance: The Poetics of Jichi Zhang
3 June 2025 • Mark Westall
Jichi Zhang turns quietly toward the ephemeral, the marginal, and the barely perceptible
Lines in the Dark: The Art of Trisha Kim
26 May 2025 • Tabish Khan
Painter Paul Klee once famously said ‘A drawing is a line going for a walk’. In Trisha Kim’s hands, that… Read More
Egg-and-Spinach Dreams: Yuyang (Lily) Wei’s Painted Artefacts of Feeling
23 May 2025 • Mark Westall
Born in the year 2000, Yuyang (Lily) Wei is a young artist based independently in London.
Love, Blood, and Surveillance: Inside the Primal World of Cristina Starr
20 May 2025 • Tabish Khan
Surreal paintings and fantastic visions.
Cyber Deities and Digital Pastoral: Reconstructing Faith and Nature in the Artificial Landscapes of the Future
16 May 2025 • Mark Westall
His interactive installations such as New Deity, Apocryphal Prophecy, Mutual Metaphor, and Flower operate in a register that is both sacral and speculative
Encoding the Irrational- The Systemic Poetics of Christine Dong
10 May 2025 • Mark Westall
Christine(Cheng) Dong is a visual artist and experimental printmaker whose work engages with systems of logic, constraint, and perception.
Ritual, Waste and Sensory Memory: On Yang Yumeng’s “Dining with Me”
29 April 2025 • Mark Westall
At a time when contemporary textile practices often succumb to either decorative nostalgia or hyper-digital spectacle, Yang Yumeng’s “Dining with… Read More
Asif Kapadia’s Outsider Vision and His Cinema of Resistance
28 April 2025 • Mark Westall
The London borough of Hackney in the ’70s and ’80s — a vibrant patchwork of cultures, languages, and social classes —
Wanting Wang: Deconstructing the World with a Gentle Yet Tenacious Female Perspective
15 April 2025 • Mark Westall
Emerging visual artist Wanting Wang, who has rapidly gained recognition in the art world, recently presented her photographic work Liquid… Read More
Anli Hou delves into the deeper meaning of jewelry as a form of expression.
11 April 2025 • Mark Westall
Anli Hou is a contemporary jewelry artist whose work delves into the deeper meaning of jewelry as a form of… Read More
Woven Memories: Sofiia Segalla’s Art of Migration and Identity
2 April 2025 • Tabish Khan
What does leaving your home country and moving to the UK feel like? We bring our experiences and traditions with… Read More
Jiayi Lin: Semiotic Practice in Future Fiction
1 April 2025 • Mark Westall
Jiayi Lin is a digital artist based in London. Jiayi’s digital artworks deeply reflect on the complex relationship between cultural… Read More
Unveiling the Unconscious: The Dreamscapes of Ruiyao Zhu
25 March 2025 • Tabish Khan
Ruiyao is interested in exploring the subconscious, dreams, and psychology through printmaking, drawing, illustration, painting, and sculpture.