李昕瑜｜
XINYU LI
Xinyu Li explores the unseen dissolution of clan unity and cultural heritage in her experimental video and mixed-media work, Jinshi (2026). Drawing from autoethnographic research and personal experiences of Hakka funeral rituals, the University of the Arts London (UAL) PhD candidate and RISD alumna investigates the decaying architecture of her ancestral village. The work centers on a dust-veiled “Jinshi” plaque—an ancient honorary title meaning “one moves forward”—which now keeps vigil over empty homes. Through this poignant spatial journey, Li visualizes how collective memory and familial bonds silently fall apart from the inside as communities scatter, offering a profound reflection on the unseen forces of modernization.
行倩文｜
QIANWEN XING (MIMI)
Qianwen Xing (Mimi) is an artist with a background in textiles and is currently studying at the Royal College of Art. Her practice spans installation and wearable art. She specialises in mixed-media practice. Driven by storytelling, her work explores structure, material, and colour. She is interested in how different materials can evoke particular feelings and meanings, as well as the cultural associations and emotional resonances they carry. Through material-led experimentation, she uses these qualities to express ideas around intimacy and power, translating personal experiences into work.
冯博昊｜
BOHAO FENG (MARCUS)
Marcus Feng (Bohao Feng) is a London-based visual and data visualisation designer working across graphic design, data visualisation, and publication. His practice focuses on building research-led visual systems to engage with social issues. His work explores themes of health, consumption, and collective experience through data-driven narratives. Recent projects investigate takeaway packaging pollution, connecting systemic growth with individual behaviour to reveal the hidden impacts of everyday consumption. Bridging Eastern and Western perspectives, his practice combines data analysis with visual storytelling to reflect on the cultural and emotional dimensions of contemporary society.
朱嘉汶｜
JIAWEN ZHU (CARMEN)
JIAWEN ZHU (Carmen) is a London-based designer with a multi-disciplinary practice combing interaction design, storytelling and socially engaged art. With a background in Interaction Design Arts, she creates participatory experiences that foster emotional connection and public engagement. She is particularly interested in explore how people navigate, interpret, and connect within their everyday environments. Blending creative design, co-creation and sensory experience, her work highlights everyday relationships while addressing broader themes of care, connection, belonging and the role of design in daily life.
杨景超｜
JINGCHAO YANG
Jingchao Yang is an artist utilising moving images, digital media and spatialised sound as his primary creative languages. His practice explores the evolving relationship between technology, industrial landscapes and ecological environments. Through the interweaving of image capture, digital reconstruction and environmental soundscapes, Yang constructs a visual context that bridges the real and the simulated. Within his works, rivers, geological formations, industrial installations, and altered natural environments frequently emerge as pivotal threads. These elements are both tangible manifestations of the physical world and symbols of the ongoing interaction between human civilisation and the Earth’s ecosystems.
李瑞彤｜
RUITONG LI
Ruitong Li born in 2002 and currently based in London, Ruitong Li is a Chinese emerging artist specializing in mixed media and textile creation. She holds a BA in Fashion Design from the University of Southampton and is currently pursuing her MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art.
李雯慧｜
VIVIAN LEI
Lei Manwai (Vivian Lei),A young artist from Macau, China (born in 2002) specializing in mixed media and textile creation. She graduated from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology with a bachelor’s degree and is currently pursuing further studies in textile design at the Royal College of Art in London
艾晓明｜
XIAOMING AI
Xiaoming Ai skilled in Thangka art, she also has extensive experience and capability in programming. Her current artistic practice mainly focuses on interactive Thangka art, and reinterpreting and re-creating the visual and symbolic language of Thangka within a contemporary art context.
珞白｜
LUOBAI
Luobai is an illustrator and researcher working across picturebooks, visual storytelling, and wellbeing. She is an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, and her work has been exhibited internationally, with shows in the UK, Europe, and Asia, including her 2025 solo exhibition, “Anxiety is a Red Monkey,” at the Doctoral School, University of the Arts London. As an invited artist speaker at Cartoon County, Brighton, she delivered a talk on visualising mental illness in comics. Her self-published picturebooks on anxiety disorders—Befriending the Red Monkey and The Solitary Island with the Red Monkey—were sold by GOSH! Comics and are acquired by both the UAL Library and the Wellcome Library. She also organised the “Draw Your Own Monster” workshop for Creativity and Wellbeing Week 2023, combining mindfulness and character design to support emotional expression.
林志豪｜
ZHIHAO LIN
Zhihao Lin’s graduated in 2019 from the Art Education programme at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. In 2024, he enrolled in the Graduate School of Tokyo Polytechnic University, specialising in Photographic Media (Shashin Media Research). He previously worked in the Press Department and the Public Education Department of the Guangdong Museum of Art.
His practice primarily employs image-based media—photography and video—while seeking to engage with reality through site-specific research and creative work. His ongoing concerns focus on the relationships between individuals and environments, identity, and the dynamics between the individual and power.
张轩墉｜
KIRK ZHANG
Kirk Zhang Born in Beijing, China. Currently lives and works between London, Shanghai and Paris.
Kirk Zhang’s practice centres on the subtle relationships between time, matter and existence. Through photography, he uncovers emotional and temporal layers embedded within everyday scenes. Using light, rhythm and precise composition, he creates quiet spaces in which viewers encounter reflection, distance and resonance.
He is particularly drawn to the instant before something emerges, or the moment when it begins to fade. In these transitional spaces, his images capture what is “almost happening” or “about to disappear”. His approach is slow and deliberate, presenting the interaction between nature, space and the body with restraint. Rather than constructing direct narrative, he allows light, shadow and time to speak for themselves.
For Zhang, photography is not simply a method of recording nature, but a way of working with it. Within his practice, the medium becomes a mechanism of intervention, revelation and delay—suspending the instant, expanding perception, and inviting viewers to dwell within what is passing, rather than what is fixed.
陈一致｜
YIZHI CHEN
CHEN Yizhi, born in 1993, is a contemporary artist currently living and working in China and the UK. As an active young artist in the field of contemporary art, Chen’s work spans painting, video, installation, and performance art. She holds a Bachelor’s degree (2016) and a Master’s degree (2019) in Oil Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Chen is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Art and Design at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD), UK. Throughout her career, Chen has been recognised with several prestigious awards, including the Inter-youth International Youth Painting Exhibition Creation Award (2018), the Luo Zhongli Scholarship (2019), and the New Star Art Award Excellence Nomination (2020). In addition, she was named a SAP Emerging Artist and selected as one of the “Young Art 100” artists. Her works have been exhibited in numerous contemporary art exhibitions at the Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai Mingyuan Art Museum, Beijing Yue Art Museum, AsiaWorld-Expo, Macao Ox Warehouse and other galleries in China. Her works have also been exhibited at the Fitzrovia Gallery, Swanfall Gallery , Elysium Gallery and other galleries in the UK. The works focus on the process of Modernization and the question of self-presentation in the virtual space. During her doctoral studies, she attended plenty of influential international conferences. Her research interest is Artist’s Self-Representation through Avatars in the Social Media Age: An Exploration of the Chinese Millennial Artist Artwork.
付洁｜
JIE FU
Jie Fu is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and HCI researcher specializing in XR immersive experiences and AI-driven visual generation. Currently a PhD candidate at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, her research focuses on data and AI-driven spatial authoring systems.
Her immersive platform Dream Space XR was a finalist for both the UKRI Innovate UK Immersive Tech Awards and the European XR Awards. Her AI-generated fashion film Fashioning the East received four MUSE Design Awards and entered the permanent collection of the China Art Museum.
Her research has been published in Frontiers in Computer Science, ACM Creativity & Cognition, and the Journal of Cleaner Production. Fu’s works have been exhibited at the London Transport Museum, China Art Museum, Chicago, and London’s Minster Building. She founded DREAMCREATIVE, collaborating with brands such as Starbucks, Hermès, Ports, and Estée Lauder Companies.
符梦希｜
MENGXI FU
Mengxi Fu(Sherry)holds a Master’s degree from the Savannah College of Art in the USA, and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Art and Design at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David in UK. Her doctoral research focuses on digital death in virtual worlds, integrating theories of cultural studies, avatar identity, and digital existentialism. She proposes a typology of digital death to clarify the complexity of virtual loss, offering a conceptual framework to support creators and researchers working in related fields.
Her academic works have been published in international peer-reviewed journals, and her creative and research works have received multiple international awards in the art and design field.
Instagram: @unrealmengxi
李韶旭｜
SHAOXU LI
In these three paintings, Shaoxu LI have selected fundamental elements—plants and animals, humans, and abstract nature—to explore the relationship between humanity and an alienated natural world.The flora and fauna depicted, whose proportions markedly exceed those of humans, are defined as symbolic entities embodying an intertwined sense of the unknown and menace. Thus, I embed these symbolic forms within a chaotic backdrop of nature surrounding the human figure. The seemingly disordered colours are traces left by applying paint with a palette knife, intended to subjectively express the sense of self-loss and fluid anxiety within human consciousness.Through formal experimentation, I discovered that interweaving unrelated colours with a palette knife without blending them seems to metaphorically convey a state of perpetual flux and uncertainty. These distinctive traces may represent a distinct visual language achievable only through the interaction of pigment and canvas.
麦沚昕｜
ZHIXIN MAI
Zhixin Mai is a Contemporary jeweller and MA graduate from Birmingham City University.
Her Practice explores the intersection of
jewellery, material experimentation, and
conceptual narratives, focusing on
gender issue, nature, and identity. I
combine traditional craft skills with
cross-disciplinary methods to create
contemporary wearable works.
MAOTIK X Carnovsky
MAOTIK is a renowned French new media artist. As seen in his previous works, MAOTIK has a strong interest in immersive multimedia art experiences and extraordinary visual impact. He was formerly a team lead at Moment Factory, where he created numerous large-scale installation projects, including installations for the new terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and stage designs for rock bands’ world tours.
His works have been exhibited around the world, and he has given lectures in Geneva, Moscow, Peru, Madrid, and other locations, earning him wide recognition. He is currently collaborating with musicians, scientists, and other practitioners to further explore the intersections between art, science, and technology.
高入云｜
RUYUN GAO
Ruyun Gao was born in Shanghai in 1988 and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from East China Normal University in 2015. His artistic practice spans installation, painting, photography, and other media.
Gao employs techniques of mechanical movement, avoiding explicit symbolic forms and rhythms in order to distance the work from subjectivity and emotion. This allows viewers to maintain a certain distance from the work, reducing immediate sensitivity toward it and leading them into a contemplative space — a smooth, unobstructed path toward a sense of openness and infinity.
In 2011, his video work Space received the Experimental Video Award and the Young Director Project Award at the One-Minute Video Competition. In 2013, he was nominated for the New Youth Artist Award held at Shanghai K11. He was also invited to create a 2017 window display for Hermès Maison. In 2015, he was invited to participate in The Laforet Summer Vacation Project, an artist residency in Ghiffa, Italy.
Instagram @minimaist
钱苘茼 |
Qingtong Qian
Founder and designer of minimaïst, Qian Qiongtong has lived in Paris for many years. Beyond the spaces she sets out to visit each time, she also explores the city’s newest and most stylish destinations through the lenses of architecture, art, design, and fashion.
In early 2016, she created the minimaïst Iceland Series Vases. In 2017, her Giant Wave series won the First Prize of the “Chinese Design Stars” award, jointly presented by AD China and Design Shanghai. In 2018, during Design Beijing, she created the Beijing Garden installation for the Taikoo Li Sanlitun Design Festival.
Art, colour, and plants have always been central sources of inspiration and key visual motifs in her design practice.
Instagram @minimaist
施政 |
ZHENG SHI
Shi Zheng, born in 1990, graduated from the School of Intermedia Art at the China Academy of Art in 2014, and received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019. He currently lives and works in Shanghai and New York.
While focusing on his individual artistic practice, Shi Zheng also collaborates with outstanding artists in his field. In 2013, he co-founded the media art collective RMBit with Neng Huo, Wang Zhipeng, and Weng Wei, creating works in response to contemporary social media phenomena. He and Neng Huo are also members of the audio-visual performance group OSC (Open Super Control).
His solo and collaborative works have been presented on numerous occasions at major museums, art institutions, and media art festivals in China and abroad, including Sound Art China, Ars Electronica in Austria, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and Castello di Rivara in Turin.
Instagram @shi_zheng
MAXIM ZHESTKOV
As a Russian visual artist, Maxim Zhestkov has taken his passion for animation, design, and photography to an exceptional level. What is even more striking is his ability to seamlessly combine all three and apply them within artistic installation environments.
His creative practice primarily revolves around the effects of digital media as shaped by evolving visual languages. Through digital technology, he recreates scenarios reminiscent of contemporary gallery spaces. These digital forms are carefully constructed, their complex and rhythmical movements interacting with the surrounding environment.
His works further expand the boundaries of the traditional white-cube gallery space, raising increasingly relevant questions in the age of digital media: how should art be viewed, experienced, and encountered today?
With a distinctive creative style, Zhestkov’s works have gained remarkable popularity, making him one of the most sought-after creative “stars” in the contemporary art world.