About
Junyi’s practice originates in close observation of everyday life, particularly daily encounters with everyday routines and disposable objects. She transforms those momentary phenomena into sculptural forms that suspend function and disrupt habitual perception. Material choice is central to her artistic language. By working with industrial and consumer materials often associated with disposability, she challenges traditional sculptural values of solidity and endurance. Plastic bends, resin freezes movement, and colour becomes excessive and seductive. Materials are treated as active agents, carrying traces of time, emotion, and memory rather than serving as neutral supports. Ordinary materials are reconfigured into soft, semi-transparent, and highly saturated structures, capturing fleeting moments of flow and instability. Her works exist in a liminal space between reality and illusion, permanence and collapse.
Exhibitions
2025-2026 Spindrift (Print),UNO Art Space,Guangzhou,China
2025 Fluid Garden II (Sculpture),Pazhou Exhibition Hall of China Import and Export Fair,Guangzhou,China
2024-2025 Solo exhibition ‘Fluid Garden’,Huamao Gusuli,Suzhou,China
2024 Blue (Sculpture),‘2024 Royal Miniature Society exhibition’,Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors & Gravers,Bankside Gallery, London,UK
2024 Dining (Sculpture),‘Unforeseeable Senses’,Crypt gallery,London,UK
2024 Sweet Landscape (Sculpture),‘Model Village 2.0’,Wandsworth gallery,Steam Works,WIP Space Studios,London,UK
2023 Roam the sea (Painting),‘Blue online art show’,Grey Cube Gallery
2023 ‘Childlike’: Taking the Urban Public Space of Shenzhen Bay East Extension in Nanshan District, Shenzhen as an Example (Design project), ‘The 9th Hubei Colleges and Universities Art and Design Exhibition’, Optics Valley Art Museum,South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan,China
2020 Blind (Digital illustration),Macau Polytechnic Institute Ming De Building,Gomes Street,Macau
2019 Architecture pen–and–ink drawing,HUST of Architecture and Urban Planning Color Painting Works Exhibition,Design Building of HUST, Wuhan,China
2018 艺林馆 Yi Lin Guan (Design project),HUST of Architecture and Urban Planning Residential Building Design Exhibition,HUST Library, Wuhan, China
Awards
2024 ICAD International Contemporary Youth Art Design Competition, ‘Liquid Memories’ (Sculpture), Silver Award
2023 Hong Kong Digital Art Competition, ‘VOGUE’ (Digital Illustration), 2nd Prize, and ‘Republic of China style’ (Digital
Illustration), 3rd Prize
2023 ‘Roam the sea’ (Acrylic paint), Merit Award, Grey Cube Gallery
2022 Chinese Creative Design Annual, ‘Phonograph’ (Digital Illustration), Gold Award, and ‘Flipped’ (Digital Illustration), Silver Award
2021 H.C.Andersen Art Award, ‘The Branch’ (Colored Lead Painting), Gold Award of Junior group
2020 Yearbook of Chinese Contemporary University Student Art Work and “Zhuri Cup” Chinese Contemporary University Student Artwork Competition, ‘Family Portrait’ (Digital Illustration), Silver Award, and ‘Dessert World’ (Clay with Acrylic paints), Excellence Award
2020 “City Memory: Text & Language” the 5th Macao International Contemporary Illustrations Competition, ‘Blind’ (Digital Illustration), City Memory Excellence Award
2019 The 8th China Art Competition, ‘Colorful Clouds’, ‘Autumn’, ‘Water Lilies Under Night’ (Oil Painting), 2nd prize
2018 The 2nd National College Art and Design Works Exhibition, ‘Still Object on the Table’ (Watercolor Painting), 3rd prize
Publications
2024 ‘Pink’, Visual Art Journal, 6th issue-August 2024, visualartjournal.com,printed in the Netherlands, Featured in pp.78-81, Interview in https://visualartjournal.com/2024/08/11/junyi-xie/
2022 ‘Phonograph’&‘Flipped’, 2020/2021 Chinese Creative Design Annual, Beijing Institute for Visual Arts,Feature in p.90 & p.105
2021 ‘The interesting design expression of maze in space’,2021 China Institute of Interior Design Journal,Interior Design Branch of the Architecture,Society of China and China Water&Power Press,pp.107-111
2020 ‘Dessert World’ & ‘Family Portrait’, 2020 Yearbook of Chinese Contemporary University Student Art Work (I),Beijing Arts and Crafts Press,Feature in p.449 & p.482
2019 ‘Colorful Clouds’ & ‘Autumn’ & ‘Water Lilies Under Night’,2019 Yearbook of Chinese Contemporary University Student Art Work (II), Beijing Arts and Crafts Press,Feature in pp.581-582
Education
BA Environmental Design,Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,China,2017-2021
MDes Interior Design,The Glasgow School of Art,Glasgow,UK,2022-2023
MA Sculpture,The Royal College of Art,London,UK,2023-2024
PhD in Fine Art,Newcastle University (Funded by CSC and NUORS),Newcastle Upon Tyne,UK,2025-present