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What is it that we are all looking for, up at the sky, out of backlit windows, through doorways, down the camera lens, in that double-take, and out of corners of our eyes? It feels like that elusive something is always just out of reach, melting away while the eye focuses.

Using loose ink drawings and low-res photography, I record incidental observations of everyday experiences, focusing on objects or sights that appear insignificant, obscure and idiosyncratic. These serve as starting points for cyclic processes through drawing, printmaking and painting in order to erode the cultural context and values we attach to visual imagery through social conditioning. Each cycle wears away prior meaning and new ones surface to fill the void. The resulting works feature abstract, organic vacillating forms which resist direct interpretation.

Born 1980 in Beijing, China

Wei Xun is an emerging visual artist living and working in London, UK

Education

2015-16                       City Literary Institute Developing Fine Art Practice

2013-15                       City Literary Institute City Lit Fine Art

2014-present              Post-graduate Research student in Social Epidemiology

Studied under:

Clare Harward

Tony Hull

Chris Hough

Exhibitions

2016

Ctrl Group Show, 4-7th October 2016  Whitechapel Business Centre, London
A Letter In Mind 2016 – A View on Nature, 6  - 9 October 2016 Gallert@ Oxo Tower, London
Queens CorrespondAnce School [Did not die], 2-7th September 2016, Academic Gallery, Long Island City, NY 

2015

City Lit Fine Art Show 2015, Espacio Gallery, London

City Lit Fine Art Interim Show, London

Favourite Word, E17 Art Trail, London