Ashley Yuqi Zhang’s work consists of everyday objects, edible materials and familiar behaviours to provide its audiences a moment to perceive meaning and self-realisation through the experience of their viewing. Working with sculpture, performance, video and installation, she is interested in confounding the expected notion of our common sense. The adjustment of objects and behaviours in her work often acts as a source of surprise and absurdity, plays with people’s anticipation, provoking curiosity and doubting what we see and what we know. By applying time-based qualities and multi-sensory elements in her work, Zhang reflects the nature of ‘change’ and questions the meaning of ‘now’.

Education

2017-2019, Royal College of Art, London, MA

2013-2017, Edinburgh College of Art, BA (Hons)

Exhibitions:

2022

No more hot air, Art Gene Gallery, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, UK

2021          

Extreme Views 2021 (online exhibition), Art Gene, UK

Finalist Artists of COCA 2021 (online showcase), Centre Of Contemporary Artists, Italy

New Greening, The Social Art Award 2021 (online showcase and book publication), Institute For Art and Innovation, Germany

2020          

制造物 (Manufactures), Aimer Art Gallery, Beijing

Breeze And The Man-Made, Hongkun Museum of Fine Art, Beijing

2019

Online Showcase, Four Corners Film, London

Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London

WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London

From Time To Time, RCA White City, London

Ordinary Pleasure, RCA White City, London

2018

White Noise, RCA White City, London  

Exploded Story, RCA White City, London

De-computation, RCA White City, London

2017

Performance Night, Whitespace Gallery, Edinburgh

Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh 

Some Where In Time, ECA B14, Edinburgh 

Quicky, DOK Artist Space, Edinburgh

Sculpture Show, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh

After the Storm - Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, ECA, Edinburgh

RCA@ECA, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh 

2016

Borders Borders, Dyson Gallery, London

RCA x ECA, Studio RCA Riverlight, London 

Third Try-Mester, St. Margarets House, Edinburgh

Guns On The Run, ECA Mural Room, Edinburgh

Drawing on Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh 

Edinburgh Student Arts Festival, Gayfield Creative Space, Edinburgh

2015

Music & Art - Edinburgh Napier University, ECA, Edinburgh 

Sculpt Friction, ECA Mural Room, Edinburgh

Deep rooted, ECA Mural Room, Edinburgh

Subject To Change, Argyle House, Edinburgh

2014

First Year Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh 

Krijn De Koning x ECA, ECA Sculpture Court, Edinburgh

Workshops:

2020

Marble Run Workshops, UNBOSI, Glasgow and Dundee

2019

Casting and Mould Making Workshop, SKD International Art Education, Beijing

Performance Art Workshop, SKD International Art Education, Beijing