Cecilia W Yu 余詠詩

Cecilia W Yu 余詠詩


About

The Accidental Orient collection was inspired by 3 years in the far East (visits to Bhutan, Nepal, India, Tibet & Western China). With it I began to explore the interface between painting/embroidery and the most valuable commodity to the ancient kingdoms "Silk". Accidental Orient collection became the basis of my Solo show at Edinburgh Art festival titled "Love without a Heart" with Tracy Emin Heading the 2008 Festival and Glenmorangie Brewery sponsoring my solo show.

My Limited Variable Print edition "Floating; The price of prosperity" explores an underlying fusion of Egyptian & Chinese concepts of Wealth, was used for the Best of Modern China, pre-Olympic ChinaNow promotion in 2008.

"Eventually we will all be Middleclass?" was a Graffiti-fusion project where we sprayed ironically in Surrey (the richest county in the UK) challenging issues of Money & Class. It was exhibited at Climate Forum in Copenhagen during COP15 United Nations Climate Change Summit. This lead to the month long Liverpool + London collaboration with Team Robbo in August 2012.

A recent piece of East-west punk inspired fusion ended up as the first permanent installation for the future (to be rebuilt) Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan.(Part of a 370 piece postcard/art collection) It is currently touring Northwestern Japan & Tokyo sponsored by the Japanese Embassy & British chamber of commerce.

Currently I am working on "Chi / Seen", the next collection for another solo show about "Oppositions / Connections".
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Website
http://www.ceciliawyu.wordpress.com
Work
1997-2000, Cecilia did a wide range of Media work in London (commercials & commercial designs.)

2000-2003 Studio in Kathmandu, Nepal, (studied with prominent Tibetan Buddhist Thangka artist: Boudhanath Stupa Gallery, Bhutanese woodwork master, Tibetan Buddhist temple artists/monks).

2003 6 months residence Modish Place Studio, Portland Oregan. USA.

2006-2007 Edinburgh Art Studio. Project Space WASPS. www.patriothallgallery.co.uk

2007 Artist Talk at the Egyptian Art Guild, Embassy Club, Cairo.

April 2009 Art talk at "Friendly Favors" sponsored by the Institute of Noetic Science, California, USA.
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Education
Cecilia studied with Traditional Chinese Brush Art Masters(private tuitions) & western art classes since 2 years old and western techniques with various private teacher (exhibiting artist) in oil, acrylic, gauche, watercolours in Australia and also textile designs (e.g. Indonesian Batik). Her College art experiences covered a wide range of medium. Visual arts was part of her Monash University, B.A (Visual Arts, Media & International Law).

2004 St.Martins short design course for industry professionals fashion design
2006 Cultural Residence exchange for 6 months to Beijing,China. MBA research in Media
2007 MBA (Sustainable Media JV)
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Friends

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  • Gonçalo Castelo Branco

Postcard Installation at Fukushima Museum of Art, Japan
Poster for Team Robbo presents "Yu's Team Rex Art-talk"
Punk dog, Glam rock
Art is a Cult?
Chod Goddess Feast
Floating: The price of Prosperity Show Invitation
Unrequited Print Series

Events & Exhibitions

Events

Current show:
March 2013: Postcard to Japan with Punkdog by Cecilia.W.Yu is installed at International House of Japan, Tokyo. Exhibition has toured Nationally since 2011

Future shows:
May 2013: Upfestival collaboration with Team Robbo, Bristol. Largest Street and Graffiti Art festival in Europe. (to be confirmed)

August 2013: "Nothing Left to Burn" 2013, Liverpool. Culture weekend.

Dates to be confirmed:

Los Angelos Curatorial debut with The American Visual Arts Guild.
Shanghai M50 Art Gallery. China


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Exhibitions

23rd December-29th December 2012, "Reflections between the past and the present" Al Hanager (دار الأوبرا المصرية‎) Opera House Art Gallery inside the National Cultural Center , Cairo, Egypt.

12th Dec 2012-15th Jan 2013 "Girls on Films" Team Rex "Feel the Presents!" Pop-up Gallery, Google Headquarter, Central St. Giles, London.

30th Aug-9th Sept 2012, Red Gallery, East Village London. Team Rex's "Origins of the species". Art-talk & Wearable Art by Cecilia.W.Yu (8th September). Short introduction by Decima Francis (MBE). www.teamrex.org/events

Liverpool Bombed Out Church 4th August 2012, Team Robbo and Yu present: "Nothing Left to Burn", a day of Art & Cultural installation. A Multi-media art installation by Cecilia.W.Yu titled: "Hell,Money!" with Live Chinese Harp ensemble by the virtuoso Zi Lan Liao. Iprotest Arts Charity Liverpool 2012.

2011-2013: "Postcards for Japan", Iwate Museum of Art, Japan. Touring Japan 2 for years. Catalogue sponsored by Japanese Embassy and British Chamber of Commerce Japan.

2011-2012: Altered Barbie. San Francisco. USA http://alteredbarbie.com

14th April, 2011. Betta Kultcha, Historic Leeds Corn Exchange. Multi-Media art preview.

June 11 to September 10, 2010 San Francisco Arts Commission's "Art in Storefronts" project USA, curated by Director of Asian American Women Artist Association. Image on loan: (c) 2010 under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

2010 7th-24th January Worlds in Tangle at ATVP, Newtown, Sydney, Australia www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au

Dec 2009 Climate Forum '09,www.klimaforum09.org, during COP15 United Nation Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
FILM: Graffiti-fusion Art presentation: "Eventually we will all be Middleclass?" www.dgi-byen.com/cphconference

Aug 2008 Edinburgh International Art Festival, solo show. Title: "Love without a Heart?" 20th Aug-10th Sept.http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/

*** 2008 EAF headlined Tracy Emin's solo show.
* Sponsored by local Scottish Government & Glenmorangie Brewery.

Feb 2008 "Floating, the price of prosperity", Edinburgh & London, ChinaNow! (Sponsored as part of the 2008 Beijing Pre-Olympics cultural promotion) www.chinanow.org.uk
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