Landscape & Journey
Culture Communication
XIAOHUI WU
XIAOHUI
Artist
BIO
Chinese Artist and teacher born in 1982, based in London with academic past in BA , MA Fine Art and MA Graphic Design. Xiaohui Wu's research in her art practice is influenced by Cultural Hybridity studies, and Communication & Languages, including ancient Chinese characters. With practices that vary from ceramic, painting, graphic design, sculpture to animation, her work is particularly focused on studying the history of cultural hybridity. With her interests in art, history, literature, and she always try to look for answers about how people to communicate and understand the different cultures and society.
September 2018 - June 2020
MA FINE ART
Studied in Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. I was awarded distinction degree with grade.
November 2005 until now
ARTIST AND FINE ART TEACHER
As an artist working and living in London and Beijing.
September 2001 -June 2005
BA OF ARTS- OIL PAINTING
Studied in Tianjin Academy of Arts in Oil Painting
September 2020 - September 2021
MA COMMUNICATION GRAPHIC DESIGN
Studied in Kinston college of Art.
EXHIBITION
04/10/2021
Kachette, 347 Old street,EC1V 9LP Shoreditch London
CREATING OUR SPARK
02/09/2021
Ugly Duck, 47/49 Tanner Street, SE1 3PL, London
WHERE'S THE FRAME?
01/08/2020
Harwich Space, George Street, CO12 3ND, Harwich
SLASH ARTS
09/12/2020
The Stanley Halls, 12 S Norwood Hill, South Norwood, SE25 6AB, London
ISOLATION: INSPIRATION (SLASH ARTS)
25/10/2020
Slash Arts Gallery
INAUGURAL ONLINE EXHIBITION
04/07/2020
LUX. ORG. Screen at LUX, Loddon
DO NOT WITH 'ER'
11/2019
Granary building, 1 Granary square, N1C 4AA, London
CSM AUCTION
02/09/2019
The Horse & Stables Function Room 122-124 Westminster Bridge Rd Lambeth, SE1 7RW, London
SPARKGROUND: ON STAGE
17/08/2019
529 Kingsland High Street E8 4AR, London
CONTEMPLATION OF CARNIVAL
13/06/2019
Screening at LUX, London
HUMMING OUT OF TUNE
03/2019
A.P.T. Gallery, 6 Creekside, SE8 4SA, London
BECOMING
13/03/2019
2F, Building, The Biscuit Factory, Bermondsey, SE16 4DG, London
LAID-BACK
07/03/2019
Apiary studio, 458 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG, London
WE ARE HERE WE ARE
05/03/2021
The Crypt Gallery, Euston Rd, NW1 2BA, London
HOLLOW CHAMBERS
JOURNEY
Ink pen, acrylic, paper
TREE
pencil, canvas board
BLUE TOWN - CHEFCHAOEN
Oil painting, canvas
40 x 40 cm
PORTRAIT
Ink pen, paper
DAY DREAM
Oil painting, canvas
150 x 150cm
STUDENTS IN ART CLASSES
Section Subtitle
CERAMIC WORKS
INSPIRED BY NATURAL LANDSCAPE & LAPIS LAZULI
My ceramic historical study is also about cultural hybridity based on the Silk Road. Different cultures met on that ‘Road’. During my studies, the ceramic collection in V&A formed part of my inspiration. The blue and white ceramics in the Islamic gallery led me to research how Chinese blue and white ceramics connect with Islamic ceramics. I examined how blue colours and patterns from these cultures influenced each other while maintaining their distinct similarities and differences. I also focussed on how the blue-coloured rock Lapis Lazuli played an important role in eastern and western art, adapting this blue into my ceramic colour practice.
Textural Landscape
I have always been interested in depicting landscapes with Chinese traditional elements and styles. In my previous landscape paintings and moving image works, I inverted black and white colour from traditional ink landscape painting and developed them into moving images. My current ceramic work is also about landscape but uses Chinese ancient characters – Oracle script font. It is the origin of Chinese writing. I wish to introduce this ancient font to young children of different backgrounds, to help them understand Chinese culture better. From these Chinese Oracle script fonts, which are literally a smart quick sketch of the subject, people can guess the meaning of the character directly from the shape of it. So, I use some characters: ‘mountain, valley, water’ to create ‘Textual Landscapes’. The shape of my ceramic series is also inspired from the shape of the changing landscape. These ceramics imagine mountains, valleys, waters, steppes, and deserts. They all connect to each other to form a continuous fluctuating and curving landscape shape.
CUPS & TEXTURAL LANDSCAPE
Textural Landscape
Plates & Textural Landscape
CEREAMIC WORK
COASTERS
I am always interested in depicting landscape with Chinese traditional elements and style. In my previous landscape painting and work and moving images, I inversed black and white colour from traditional ink landscape painting and developed them into moving images. My current ceramic work is also about landscape but using Chinese ancient characters – Oracle script font. It is the origin of Chinese writing, I wish to introduce this ancient font to different background young children, let them can understanding Chinese culture better. The Chinese Oracle script font, literally a smart quick sketch of the subject, people can guess the meaning of the character directly from the shape of it. So, I use some character, ‘mountain, valley, water’ to create ‘Textual Landscape’. And the shape of my series ceramic also inspired from the shape changing of the landscape, imaging mountains, valleys, waters, steps, desert, they all connect to each other, form a continuous fluctuation curve landscape shape.
CERAMIC JEWELLERY
XIAOHUI WU
SHOWCASE
moving image, ceramic, painting , drawing, painting, photo, installation
Since beginning my journey in this field, my dedication to the work and motivation to grow have led me to exceptional projects and experiences. I’m grateful for a profession I’m passionate about, and am proud to share examples of my greatest work. Take a moment to check out my portfolio, and get in touch with any questions.
CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING
February 2020, London
Materials: ink, brush, cotton rag paper, 24x128cm
Chinese landscape painting as the moving image Mountain and Stream's background.
Story board of Mountain and Stream
The Ghosts
Moving Image
Travelling in Wild
The background of the moving image Mountain Stream
Mountain Stream
BURNING
FIRE IN THE WORLD
PHOTOGRAPH
Landscape drawing on photograph
Exploring the idea of people's homes as their 'private caves' in which they can find refuge and place to hide from the outside world. Windows function as evasive voyeuristic portals between the city and these private realms.
FIRE IN GARDEN
I ADAPTED THIS ARTWORK FOR CSM AUCTION.
Painting November 2019
I experiment different materials in this painting: black paper, paint pen, crayon, water pan, eye shadow, peacock feather . Fire in Garden Artwork is in memory of fire of forest these years and the invaders burins the royal summer palace in Beijing handers years ago The future plan is to use this painting as a background to do an animate about forest fire