CONTACT
chenyue.yuan@network.rca.ac.uk
yuanchenyue0115@163.com
@yuan_chenyue
Chenyue Yuan (Sharpay) is an illustrator of Chinese heritage based in London. 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. Currently she is working on a Children’s Book titled Partridge on the Pasture, which will be published by the end of 2023 in China.
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
RECENT POSITIONS
Sessional Lecturer at Universtiy for the Creative Arts | UK
Associate Lecturer/Visiting Practitioner at Central Saint Martins | UK
Guest Lecturer at Royal College of Art | UK
RESIDENCY
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration Graduate Residency | UK | 2021
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Centre In Progress
Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration | 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 ThatIllustrator 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
插画：社会历史与社群参与
Live Talk | TodayDesign | China | 2023
Strategies of Narratives: Labouring and Communities
Artist Talk | Academy of Visual Arts, HKBU | Hong Kong | 2023
Archival Methodologies in Illustration Practice
Artist Talk | Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design | Sweden | 2023
Colouring In -- The Past
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
WRITTINGS
Visual histories of labour: Imagining, archiving and interpreting illustrations of Chinese workers from the 1880s and 1980s
collaborative, featured in Colouring in -- The Past, ISSN 2752-9533
JURY
4th Young Battle Awards Young Jury | China | 2022
SELECTED CLIENTS
New York Times, Die Zeit, ‘A Space’ Arts Gallery, Zhejiang Photographic Press, 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
Shaping the Marginal
125 New Bond Street | London | 30 March - 7 April 2023
Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Via della Fiera, 20 | Bologna | 6 - 9 March 2023
‘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
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