CONTACT
chenyue.yuan@network.rca.ac.uk
yuanchenyue0115@163.com
@yuan_chenyue


Chenyue Yuan (Sharpay) is an illustrator based in London and China. She explores illustration practice as a retroactive, multi-voiced narrative by combining field visiting and archival methodologies to reflect on social histories of sites. Her work is primarily drawing-based, using both traditional and digital media. 


EDUCATION

Royal College of Art (RCA)

MA Visual Communication  2019-2021 | London, UK

Sun Yet-Sen University (SYSU) 

BA Archival Science 2015-2019 | Guangzhou, CHI

RESIDENCY

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration  Graduate Residency | UK | 2021

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Centre In Progress

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | London Open House Festival & London Design Week | London | 8-18 September 2022
V&A Illustration Awards 2022
V&A Museum | London | 20 July - 9 October 2022
Finding Home—Late at Tate Britain: Life Between Islands 
Tate Britain | London | 3-5 December 2021

PRESS

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration

 A Q&A with illustrator Sharpay Chenyuè Yuán

It's Nice That

Illustrator Chenyue Yuan digs deep into social histories to tell the story of Chinese labourers living and working in factories

Creative Boom

 Illustrator Chenyue Yuan tells the story of Chinese factory workers in Pearl's Daughters

英国VA博物馆 (V&A Chinese Official)

我的V&A｜学生插画家亚军夏朴：追随直觉，创作出能被人记住的故事

Design 360

《海边的女儿》：追忆父辈80年代工厂生活，平实朴素的画面中涌动着真挚情感

Messimage

Messimage Talk | Sharpay Yuan在叙事图像中体验微妙又实在的刺痛感

LECTURES + TALKS

Colouring In -- The Past (Upcoming)

Symposium | Chelsea College of Art | 2022

Chenyue (Sharpay) Yuan, Retroactive Narrative Practice 

Professional Practise Talk | University of Brighton | 2022

RCA Creative Research Series: Identity & Performance

Webinar | Royal College of Art | 2022

Industry Insight – Illustration First Moves 

Panel Discussion | New Designers | London | 2022

WORKSHOPS

Create Scary Wrapping Papers for Halloween

October Half Term Kids Workshop | Eltham College | London | 2022

Design a Character

May Half Term Kids Workshop | Eltham College | London | 2022

SELECTED CLIENTS

New York Times, De Zeit, ‘A Space’ Arts Gallery, Zhejiang Photography Publishing House, Noema Magazine, Ambit Magazine, Golab Agency, etc.

AWARDS

2022
V&A Illustration Awards   Student Runner-up

World Illustration Awards    Alternative Publishing Shortlist
Signature Art Prize    Drawing and Print Finalist

2021
Graduate 360    Top 10 Annual Graduate
Young Battle Award     Top 10 Annual Graduate

World Illustration Awards     Book Cover Longlist  
The Cheltenham Illustration Awards    Highly Commended

IJUNGLE Illustration Awards     Comic Merit Award    

2020
Communication Arts - Illustration Annual Award    Personalized Award of Excellence Trophy

The Cheltenham Illustration Awards    Highly Commended

IJUNGLE Illustration Award     New Talent Merit Award  

OTHER EXHIBITIONS

‘I am Many Stories/The Stories of a Better Tomorrow’
Chapel Arts | Cheltenham | 23 February - 5 March 2022
Tell Us a Story...  
Gerald Moore Gallery | London | 13 January - 19 February 2022

Yilooook Art Festival 2.0—Collective Exhibition
LINKHEAD Gallery | Suzhou | October 2021
Terminal
Ugly Duck | London | June 2021

RCA 2021
Online | Royal College of Art | June 2021
Work in Progress Show 2021
Online | Royal College of Art | January 2021

Confession of Shanghai - Illustrator Collection II
The Mix Place | Shanghai | August—September 2020