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