Qingting Yang
Design: Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery MA
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Ceramics / Illustration / Storytelling
Location: Chongqing, China
Qingting Yang
First Name: Qingting
Last Name: Yang
Specialisms: Ceramics / Illustration / Storytelling
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My Location: Chongqing, China
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Design: Ceramics, Furniture or Jewellery MA
About
I’m Qingting Yang, a ceramist and painter from China. I directions is making puppets, toys, sculptures, scene installations and film by ceramic. Also, I’m into use watercolor and Chinese painting to draw illustrations and paintings.
I was study BA Ceramic course in SiChuan Fine Art Institute in Chongqing, China. And now graduated from MA Ceramics Design in Central Saint Martins in London.
Also I have various interests in different materials and media. Like, I started Chinese painting since I was a little girl. So I’m relatively into ceramic painting, watercolor painting and Chinese painting.
Many factors of the modern world lead us away from personal reality and truths. In a mechanized world, people's life becomes absurd, perhaps weird and often painful. People like to believe they are seeing things as they are. Like the frog who believes the sky is only as big as the mouth of the well he occupies in the famous Chinese proverb about short-sightedness. To express a sense of absurdity and weirdness highlighting our need to reconnect with our surroundings Yang has create a startling series of fully operational, ceramic puppet characters and begun a series of short films to bring these characters and their absurdist notions to life. Serious in ceramic intent, delicious in their form and detail, the fluidity and movement of puppetry brings a surprising edge to the medium. Using plaster and slip casting techniques and decorated with delicate enamels and luster detailing, the characters bodies reference not only ceramic traditions but point to the extravagance and delights of iconic contemporary fashion and its extension of body elements. Yang is keen to continue making these unexpected moveable ceramics and exploring the opportunities the ceramic narrative space offers.
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