City lights, cab rides and urban landscapes feature in Le Fil’s new music video for Taxi – a sultry and pulsing electronic pop track that describes an adventurous late-night encounter with a taxi driver. With its iconic opening line, Le Fil takes us on a voyeuristic journey through the electric streets of London in this […]
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British Chinese artist Andy Leung launches pioneering lifetime project
British Chinese artist and music producer Andy Leung will release his first single (Organ 2016) for his lifetime project on 18th November 2016. And thereafter for the rest of his career, he will release a song on the last Friday of every month. Music for life When asked why he decided to release a song […]
British Chinese Artist Profile: Anita Yan Wong, International Artist, Educator and Thinker
Prof. Anita Yan Wong (pseudonym: 大白菜), is a specialist in modern and traditional Chinese art and is a long time pupil of 辛鵬九‒ a world-renowned Lingnan style master and one of the first pupils of Chao Shao An. She received her B.A. (Honours) in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and […]
The London East Asia Film Festival to open at ODEON Leicester Square
Opening this year on 20th October at ODEON Leicester Square with South Korea’s Academy Award submission The Age of Shadows (UK premiere), the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) will run for 11 days from 20th to 30th October. It will close with Johnnie To’s Three at Ham Yard Hotel Cinema. Building on the ‘0th […]
British Chinese Artist Aowen Jin to create giant luminous rice installation
Chinese-born British visual artist Aowen Jin was selected by the national Museums at Night festival to be one of five major artists producing night-time events in venues across the UK at the end of October – a festival that has previously included prestigious Western artists such as Grayson Perry and Spencer Tunick. Inspired by Compton […]
Made In China: Factory Girls
British Chinese artist Aowen Jin brings the dreams and ambitions of China’s factory girls to life by exhibiting their performance artworks, which were shot on their mobile phones. Following her highly acclaimed 2010 exhibition about China’s One-Child Policy, Aowen Jin has spent the last two years meeting more than 800 factory girls in China’s biggest […]
British Chinese Artist Timothy Hon Hung Lee: Visitations
Tim Lee’s large-scale ink drawings and paintings on rice paper are, at a first glance, tightly bound with the visual aesthetics of Chinese painting, while simultaneously referencing elements of traditional European art. The conflation of these visual cultures is unsurprising: Lee is a British artist of Chinese descent. But the work does not just amount […]