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Print (MA)

Ziyao Qi

Education

● BA: Jilin University, 2014-2018

● MA: Royal College of Art, 2018-2020

Awards

● Excellent Volunteer at"Shouwangxing - --Caring for Autistic Children Early Rehabilitation" large-scale public welfare activities 2015

● Excellent Volunteer Changchun Chaoyang District Red Cross 2015

● Third Prize in "Flying dreams" - Changchun the first small exhibition of young and middle-aged Work Exhibition 2016                        

● Third Prize in "Changchun Impression" handcuffer handmade creative contest 2016

● Yearbook of Chinese contemporary college students art work 2017

● Award at the third academy award national art and design exhibition 2017

● Comprehensive Design Excellence Award at creative China the eleventh national design art grand prix 2017

Exhibition

● AGAINST THE GRAIN, Royal College of Art MA Print Second Year Group Show, Southwark Park Galleries//Lake Gallery, 07.03-08.03 2020

Contact

ku.ca.acr.krowten@iq.oayiz

moc.qq@116768457

Degree Details

School of Arts & Humanities

Print (MA)

The interplay between revealing and concealing is a central concern in my print-based practice. My aim is to express my inner world of memories and emotions, but to also explorehow feelings and states of mind can be screened and kept secret. By using the transparency of Japanese paper, and suspending layers of prints in space, I explore the possibility of a poetic, visual narrative, and invite a process of coding and decoding as the viewer interacts with the imagery in space.

diary of leisure_animated video

overall look

back

overall look

page 9-10

page 15

page 19-20

page3-4

page 24-26

This artist book records memorable, funny, and romantic scenarios or moments that my boyfriend and I shared when we travelled to Brighton, Oxford, Paris, Venice, Luzern, Thun, Jilin, and my hometown, Changchun over the last year. I often find it is difficult to remember experiences with others, which may be because I tend to feel numb, and do not have lots of feelings to help me be remember specific moments. However, since I met my boyfriend, and we visited a lot of places together, I felt romantic for the first time. Now there are more and more beautiful memories that I am willing to record.

Medium:

Linocut, paperboard, Japanese paper, hand-made paper, video

Size:

27pages, 140*185mm/ 57 seconds

Instuction of Mind

My primary motivation for making art works is to release my indescribable emotions. I find it is a joyful sense of release, and personally experience a similar reaction to movies, music, philosophy and reading. The idea for this piece emerged while I was watching an online show called ‘Xiaoshuo’, narrated by Gao Xiaosong. Xiaosong was talking about the relationship between works and an artists’ inner world, and how they transfer their thoughts into their works, and how these are manifested into a visible practice.

Medium:

linocut, Japanese paper

Size:

420*300mm

The Boundary between Debut and Finale

The Boundary between Debut and Finale-1

The Boundary between Debut and Finale-2

The Boundary between Debut and Finale3

I always believe that when I have experienced difficulties in life, the ‘problem’ is not the event itself, but the emotion brought by the event. As a result, I have tried to ‘solve the problem’ by avoiding the event, but to solve the emotion instead. It is like sitting in a train and looking at the same scenery, but the difference is that when people sit in the same direction as the train travels they will care more about seeing the new landscape, and ignore what disappears behind; while those sitting in the opposite direction will be more concerned about the disappearing scenery, and forget that what disappeared just occurred a few seconds ago. Looking at these together, we could act as bystanders and see clearly that they are both appearing and disappearing; all the ups and downs translate into a calmness.

Medium:

3 round linocuts

Size:

3*500*500mm

seek

The branches represent the various paths and choices of life; the rabbit represents my boyfriend; the top right part represents my life. The picture explores a time my boyfriend was very anxious while considering whether to apply for PhD or not. I made this work to describe to him that it is not necessary limit himself to one particular frame, maybe it is a more comfortable lifestyle to drive away at what we are doing currently; see what occasions will occur and let nature takes its course. That might lead to less anxiety.

Medium:

linocut

Size:

460*305mm

3,6,15

As a way to record emotions, this relief print describes a tangled mood, in response to having to make a choice whilst holding a fantasy of escaping. The three pillars represent three choices that can be made, the bird and the woman both represent my feelings of being trapped in my own imagination at that moment, and the leaves represent various cluttered thoughts. In fact the outside landscape has never given me persecution.

Medium:

linocut

Size:

600*900mm

Being Seen

Being Seen-1

Being Seen-2

The left eye, depicts my mother looking at her collection of all the cards I made for her when I was a child, an act that makes me feel my love was seen. The right eye, in contrast, shows a time my father took a business trip on a Lunar New Year’s Eve, which reminds me of a time that my sadness was not noticed.
The two open eyes indicate the happiness and loss of being seen and not being seen, giving these to my parents, and showing these makes these emotions visible. Everything is seen to prove its existence, and I believe for emotions, being seen is very important.

Medium:

2 linocuts, handmade paper, Japanese paper

Size:

2*450*300mm

Passerby-1

Passerby-2

Passerby-3

Passerby-4

Passerby-artist book

Passerby-artist book

Passerby-artist book

Passerby-artist book

This series is my interpretation of a Chinese modern poetry ‘Passerby’ written by Xibei shown below. I made them in two versions, Japanese paper and artist book.
《路人》 西贝

不知为何，明明想和你说话,
却骗你说，风雨正好，该去写点诗句。

不必嘲讽我，你笑出声来，
我也当是天籁。
不必怀有敌意，你所有心计，
我都当是你对我的心意。
　　
我的宿命分两段，未遇见你时，和遇见你以后。
你治好我的忧郁，而后赐我悲伤。
忧郁和悲伤之间的片刻欢喜，
透支了我生命全部的热情储蓄。

想饮一些酒，让灵魂失重，好被风吹走。
可一想到终将是你的路人，
便觉得，沦为整个世界的路人。
风虽大，都绕过我灵魂。

Medium:

4 linocuts, Japanese paper, handmade paper, artist book

Size:

4*450*300mm / 5 pages,100*100mm

Egress

Egress

Speaking to people always bothers me. It is truly tough to accurately understand and perfectly respond to others. Therefore, I have been seeking approaches to relieve my stress when communicating. Writing over and over again until the paper is full is one way that I found helped when I was in primary school.The patterns of these pieces are embossed like braille of some words in Chinese that important for me, like satisfy, escape, and confront. Each small piece is divided into twelve blocks meaning one Chinese character.

Medium:

etching, 8 zinc blocks

Size:

8*200*160mm

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