Yuqian Sun

September 4 to October 13, 2024

Location: Emergence Gallery

Presented by: Yuqian Sun

Yuqian Sun was born in Shenzhen, China in 1997. At the age of 14, her long journey of studying abroad began. After graduating from Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, she earned her BFA degree at the University of Michigan in 2019. She is now an award-winning artist and art educator based in Toronto.

Yuqian’s adult’s watercolour course and children’s visual narrative course will start this September at NPCC Watercolour is the medium that she has studied the most in the past 12 years. The emotional intensity that emerges in the poetic flow of translucent colour is the reason for her obsession with the medium. When working on representational paintings with watercolour, Yuqian imagines capturing a solid form with intangible materials like water and light. It makes a normal day in an artist’s life unique and impossible to copy. Yuqian has learnt to be confident yet humble to cooperate with water instead of controlling it. Waterflow calms her down, teaches her to be honest with herself, and brings her inner world onto the paper.

Yuqian’s art practice is derived from her doll photography works, which she started practicing when she was a kid. It was a pure hobby at first, but turned into a long and comprehensive method of creation that carries her aesthetics. She aims to capture the sublime aesthetics of ideal humanoid form worshipping in doll images she creates.

Inspired by the beauty of these mass-produced toy dolls, Yuqian’s work discusses the context derived from the meanings behind objects that are human beings’ artificial imitations. She studied and experimented with traditional mediums, striving to refine her painting style into a unique authorship. In her award-winning doll portrait series Artificial Fairies, she proceeds to explore the borderline of life and lifelessness.

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