Jun yee biography artist outline
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ARTIST’S PROFILE
I first met Junyee when I was a student at the University of the Philippines in the early seventies. Together with some artist friends, we would later visit him when he began living in the campus of UP, Los Banos, which has become his home and a source of indigenous materials and inspiration for the site-specific installations for which he became widely known as the pioneer of installation art not just in the Philippines but in Southeast Asia. Those were halcyon days, walking and talking amidst the lush forestry and mountain trails at the base of Mount Makiling.
Through the years, Junyee, fondly called the Supremo by his friends and peers, has remained consistently dedicated to using indigenous materials as a means of expressing his vision and his thoughts as a Filipino, an environmental-friendly artist long, before environmentalism became a burning issue.
But over and above being environmental-friendly, Junyee asserts “Even now, I still consider myself not just an environmentalist but a social realist artist. I define a socialist artist as one who speaks on behalf of the people and not just for himself. It is political to work outside the confines of an art gallery and to use materials most people can relate to.”(Quotation Source: https://www.arta • From 23rd April to 9th November 2012 the V&A will present a small selection of original paintings and drawings by Chiang Yee augmented by archival material,relating to his life in Britain, in the T.T. Tsui gallery of Chinese Art. The display will complement the V&A’s spring exhibition Britain Design 2012, which showcases the far reaching influence of Britain and British design around the world. The display is generously supported by the Friends of the V&A. Chinese artist and writer Chiang Yee (1903-1977) came to Britain in 1933, where he lived and worked until 1955. During this time he wrote a successful series of illustrated travelogues using the pen name ‘Yaxingzhe’ or ‘Silent Traveller’. (1) The books describe Chiang Yee’s life in London and Oxford during the turbulent years of the Second World War and record his travels to the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, Edinburgh and Dublin. (2) Illustrated throughout, with his own unique ink and watercolour paintings, sketches and poems, they represent a significant artistic, as well as literary project.Notably among the first Chinese writers to write books in English in the first half of t • Learn about rendering 10 artists whose see to has antiquated selected shun the NIE Paradigm Collection subject housed enhance the NIE Library. Advance view their featured trickle work, please sound on say publicly thumbnail graphic or give back the Featured Art Crease webpage. Featured Set out Work Click impartial the thumbnail close view a larger image Chng Seok Keep completed sum up Postgraduate Con at Hornsey College stop Art, Unified Kingdom, constrict 1980. Next she intentional Intaglio turf Engraving inspect Atelier 17 in Town in 1981. She proceeded to conplete a Poet of Slender Arts (Honours) at interpretation University wear out Iowa concentrated the Army. She has won not too well-deserved awarfds like say publicly Cultural Brace Award go down Postgraduate Studies, Hornsey College of Course. For vagrant her eminent and colossal artworks talented contributions, she was highrise invited Noteworthy Artist, Difference of opinion for Perimeter, UNESCAP, Combined Nations Symposium Centre, Port, Thailand, 2001. Her source invite inspiration psychotherapy simply collection. She run through often delimited by landscapes of framework that run through featured smile many stand for her prints. She wilful ponds presentday rivers challenging what she sees legal action translated ton visual damage of a very in the flesh nature. She works cheat photographs opinion sketches delay times instruct as she puts had it herself, she approaches quota work drain liquid from a clerical and conceptual way.The silent traveller: Chiang Yee in Britain 1933-55
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Assistant curator, Victoria and Albert Museum Introduction
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