Just borrowing these photos to trace how a tiny, foolish, tender act — carving love into matter (onto desks, erasers, even our own forearms) — once shaped our earliest sense of intimacy as material, as something that bruises, imprints, lingers.
As part of tat/boo, we’re pleased to invite London-based tattoo artist @wild_and_fatal_tattoos to re-touch this premature, underground impulse formed under post-millennial school discipline — a gesture once marked as taboo, now recalibrated as tattoo through inkless mark-making, opening a way to ask how interpersonal “wording” might open onto a form of worlding.
We are now seeking 3–5 participants in London to share memories from their millennial-era youth. These will be translated into motifs and inscribed through inkless tattooing; the process will be documented for inclusion in the tat/boo exhibition (and possibly the accompanying zine).
All procedures follow safe, consensual, non-harm practices.
If you feel drawn to this small experiment in memory, intimacy, and embodiment, DM us @qiyang_jade@bookiii3 for details!
#tattoo #londonart #londontattoo
Ruskin 2025 MFA Graduate Chaoming Zheng:
“Chaoming Zheng (Sadie) is a printmaker, painter, and multidisciplinary artist working with performance, sculpture, moving image, and text. She often uses copper or brass items, old toys, or fragments of domestic architecture to process cleaning, repetition, inscription, and resistance during becoming.
Her practice explores the affective residues of displacement, bodily failure, and unarchived histories, drawing from personal and collective diasporic conditions. Chaoming acts as a shapeshifting bard, or a slippery fox, playing with make-belief to glitch histories with storytelling. Deformed rocking horses, ambiguous figures, and shattered homes appear as unstable forms of care, or small disruptions to what is taken for granted."
@_s_zhen
1. Rock Me Tenderly Before I Leave 2. Keeping It Burning 3. To Tattoo an Artefact
Two of my etching prints ‘No Leakage In the Dollhouse’ and ‘She Keeps Watch Over Their Shadows’ are currently in display in @thegalleryatgreenandstone along with some of the most talented artists here! Come check out if you are around.
No.1-3 from the ‘Afterblast’ kinetic sculpture series. made of brass shell cases, natural shells (some are pierced), motor, copper wires… size variable.
Etched WWI shell casings hold airborne seed-forms, their soldered copper wings spinning gently above spent ammunition. These fragile automata transform instruments of destruction into gestures of drift, echoing the long fallout of war and migration.
#automata #kineticsculpture #trenchart
Hey I’m super thrilled to be back in @rcaprint as one of the guest lecturers next Wednesday at PRINT OUT: Al and Materiality. Along with artist Lucy Hutchinson we will discuss about the changing landscape of contemporary art.
I hope to see you in Battersea. To book free tickets use the link in bio or copy the link /e/print-out-ai-and-materiality-tickets-1433025992319?
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More about the speakers:
Lucy Hutchinson is an artist and tech consultant based in London. Her current work explores how computational technologies shape perception and behaviour to reinforce existing power structures.
She produces paintings, maps, installations, writing and video, often working collaboratively with creatives, lawyers, data scientists, academics, and members of the public. These outcomes act as conceptual gestures that interrogate and hack corporate practices - using art as a site to shift dominant narratives and question how these technologies impact our lived experience.
Since graduating from MA Print at the RCA in 2019, she has undertaken a number of residencies with FACT Liverpool x Jerwood, UCL, King’s College London, The University of Birmingham, The University of Warwick and Coventry University.
Chaoming is a printmaker, painter, and multidisciplinary artist working with moving image, sculpture, text and tattoos. She graduated from Fudan University, Royal College of Art and University of Oxford. She often uses copper or brass items, old toys, or fragments of domestic architecture to process cleaning, repetition, inscription, and resistance during becoming. She enjoys uncovering algorithmic distortions hidden within a digital ‘amusement park’ fed by fragments of our physical world. Acting as a shapeshifting bard, or a slippery fox, she plays with make-belief to glitch historical narratives through storytelling.
MFA Finalist Chaoming Zheng is currently exhibiting in the Ruskin Degree show 2025 till 25th June.
Works including sculpture assemblage ‘In Lieu of Landing’, ‘Afterblast’ kinetic series, and two short films ‘To Tattoo An Artefact’ and ‘Civilian Families’.
Chaoming Zheng (@_s_zhen ) is a printmaker, painter, and multidisciplinary artist working with sculpture, moving image, and tattoos. She binds copper with old toys or fragments of domestic architecture to process cleaning, repetition, inscription, and resistance during becoming. Her practice explores the affective residues of displacement, bodily failure, and unarchived histories, drawing from personal and collective diasporic conditions.
Chaoming acts as a shapeshifting bard,
or a slippery fox, playing with make-belief to glitch histories with storytelling. Deformed rocking horses, winged seeds, ambiguous figures with shells, and shattered homes appear as unstable forms of care, or small disruptions to what is taken for granted.
Nest, 2025, copper water pipes, shell, solder, piercing barbells and mixed media.
A little bit more sneak peeks of my latest sculptures from ‘In Lieu of Landing’ series, which you will be encountering if you come to the opening tonight at @ruskinmfa The show runs from 20-25 June, and I have the honor to present along with some of the most talented young artists who are currently in Oxford! Excited to see you there and let’s have fun :)
#oxfordartist #oxforduniversity
Sadie Chaoming Zheng
‘Hold my hands... goes-a-round’ (2023)
Mixed media (acrylic, clothing rack, music box, 60 x 60 x 60 cm
‘Fruity Merose II’ 2023)
Fragmented glass, 17 x 8 x 10 cm
‘Fruity Merose I’ (2023)
Fragmented glass, 12 x 7 x 8 cm
Sadie Chaoming Zheng is an artist with a background in literature studies. Her practice explores themes of connection, feminism, glitches during reproducibility, and overlapping diaspora in archives. She crafts narratives that weave together fiction, digital anomalies and the physical world. Often, she portrays herself as a shapeshifting bard or a slippery fox who fabulises traumatic realities with symbols both fragile and intimate. Zheng works across a variety of media; including printmaking, painting, moving image, and dynamic sculptural installations, which feature playful elements such as broken dollhouses and abandoned rocking horses. Zheng has studied at Fudan University, Royal College of Art, and the University of Oxford.
Introducing artists who will present their talented works at ESEA Spring Art Fair on April 19th:
@_s_zhen
Sadie is a tattoo artist, painter, and video maker exploring themes of connection and feminism. She is also a jewellery maker working with clay and metal. At the ESEA Spring Art Fair she will bring over her hand-made clay rings, size adjustable and look super cute.
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The ESEA Spring Art Fair returns to bring you an exciting experience!
When we opened stall applications, we were thrilled to see many artists from last year signing up enthusiastically, alongside many new artists eager to join! In addition to ESEA artists based in the UK, we are also inviting feminist artists and gender-focused NGOs from China, who will bring their artwork and handmade crafts.
Our highly popular art workshops will make a return! And to make things even more exciting, we’re teaming up with the feminist queer open-mic collective ”Lightning Womxn“ to present ESEA Cabaret—featuring drag performances, band performances, and traditional folk instrument performances.
This is more than just an art fair—it’s a celebration of the ESEA community, a bold expression of our voices, and a space for us to support one another.
📅 Saturday, April 19th | 2–6 PM
📍 SET Social, 55a Nigel Rd, London SE15 4NP
🎫 Ticket: £2
Registration 🔗 in bio
“Escapism”
oil on linen, 60 x 60 cm
P3 alongside “In Trance” and “Take a seat”, a weird sculpture I made in 2023.
Posting this on the first day of 2025 to remind myself not to go for escapism regardless of how tempted sometimes :)
“In Trance (当我想你时，你会更想我吗)”, oil on canvas, 40x40cm
When I‘m missing you, do you miss me too?
In the silent darkness, I keep searching for your vanished voice.
When I say I miss you, would you say you miss me too? When I say I miss you, would you say you miss me more?
#contemporarypainting #emergingartist #oiloncanvas
