Arts Thread

I'm a Canadian artist based in London, working between steel, drawing and code.I began a painting apprenticeship in Beijing as a child and trained in fine art at The Fine Arts School Affiliated to the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. In Toronto, I studied digital media art at Seneca College and spent some twenty years in graphic design and print production before returning to my own practice — a BFA in Drawing & Painting at OCAD University and, this year, the MA in Art & Science at Central Saint Martins, UAL, both with distinction.My work circles one question: where the living stops and the fabricated begins. The Human-Machine series approaches it through drawing, using metallic colour as an industrial stand-in for flesh; Human-Machine: Möbius, my graduation work, moves it into three dimensions—a hand-welded steel loop drawn over its whole surface in one continuous direction, on a form with no inside or outside to separate.I move between materials rather than specializing in one: laser-engraved plywood reliefs, illuminated acrylic, and immersive pieces built in Unity, including In Between Cubes, a tesseract you can walk through. What holds them together is an interest in geometry that behaves in ways intuition doesn't predict.www.DanGraphics.ca