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We recently welcomed @mt_qu and @amy_j_wilson to the @croydon_school_of_art to conclude an ongoing project 🎨 It was a fun‑packed day spent creating landscapes and artefacts for our biospheres ☺️ Students thoroughly enjoyed engaging with the project and exploring ideas through speculative fiction. Supported by @turfprojects #croydoncollege

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3 days ago

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We recently welcomed Amy J Wilson and Meitao-Qu to CSOA to deliver a talk and workshop; 'Build your own Biosphere' Hosted by Turf Projects. Inspired by experimental ecological projects like 'Biosphere 2' the session focused on speculative design, storytelling, and hands on making as students created a miniature biosphere to explore how architecture, technology and art can shape alternative environmental futures. The outcomes were so brill, and we're excited for the next stage of the project. Thanks, guys. Creative Practice Art, Design and Comms L3.1 @amy_j_wilson and @mt_qu @turfprojects

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3 months ago

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📣 Congratulations to @mt_qu and @raheelkhan____ - recipients of the @eastgallery_norwichuni Fellowships 2025–26! ✨ Launched in 2023, the East Gallery Fellowship creates space for creative exchange, research and experimentation. Meitao will be exploring the rise and decline of offshore industries in the southern North Sea – while Raheel will be reflecting on everyday routines, designed environments, and the ways communal memory is shaped and held. Read more about our new fellows at the link in bio. We can’t wait to follow their journeys. 📸 Low Toms & Prayer Mats 1-5, 2025 Best Wishes, 2025 On/Offshores, video, 2025 One World, One Dream, installation, 2024 #EastGallery #Fellowship #WeAreNorwich #NorwichUniversityOfTheArts #Art

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3 months ago

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This week we are delighted to welcome the new cohort of Gilbert Bayes Award winners who will join the Society in 2026! Meet Meitao Qu GBA @mt_qu Meitao Qu is a UK-based Chinese artist working across sculpture, installation and digital media. Taking urban landscapes, industrial infrastructure and domestic interiors as sites of inquiry, her practice explores how popular imaginations and dominant ideologies are inscribed through the material and architectural fabric of daily life. Reworking forms drawn from decorative, culinary and botanical art traditions, she is interested in the plasticity of meaning that emerges between objects, their makers and users. Using ready-made models and prefabricated assets, her work assembles fragments of scaled worlds to produce referential encounters with objects and spaces that stage and shape the everyday. Images courtesy of the artist 📸 1 ©️ Kawasaki Ittoku 📸 4 ©️ Andy Stagg #gilbertbayesaward #gba2026 #emergingsculptors #MeitaoQu

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5 months ago

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Last weekend to see ‘Decadently Ordinary’ with @mojjyart at @quenchgallery ! Open today and tomorrow 12 - 6pm

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9 months ago

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Concrete pleasures, 2025 Doll’s house, console table, Chinoiserie wallpaper, polystyrene coving, skirting board, acrylic and spray paint. ——— On show at @quenchgallery in ‘Decadently Ordinary’ with @mojjyart . Open every Fri - Sunday 12-6pm until 3rd August.

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9 months ago

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Will be showing some new and recent work at @quenchgallery with @mojjyart , alongside @ciaran.wood - opening tomorrow 5-8 pm ! ‘Decadently Ordinary’ explores objects and environments that encompass feelings of the extravagant and the banal, reflecting a basic impulse to decorate and embellish. Bringing together sculpture, painting and textiles, the artists build, weave and plate small worlds to playfully consider how objects transcend their materiality to shape and stage our experience of the everyday. Open 12 - 6pm Friday - Sunday, till 3rd August. Poster @olivermounir

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11 months ago

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Last week of 'It's a small world (after all)' @public.gallery ! On each wall of the gallery is a series of four dinner plates inspired by popular Chinese plating styles, remarking on the confluence of traditional auspicious motifs with contemporary aspirational imagery. 1. 黄金大道 Golden avenue, 2024 2. 镜花月水 Mirror flower water moon, 2024 3. 一帆风顺 Smooth sailing, 2024 4. 城中桃李 Peaches and plums in the city, 2024 30.5 x 30.5 x 5 cm Tangshan bone china plate, architectural models, simulation food models, foam clay, polymer clay, silicone, resin, lacquer

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1 year ago

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'One world, one dream' (2024) on show @public.gallery until 7 Dec 🚅 'The installation borrows its title from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, referencing how global mechanisms of urbanisation unite the world in a perpetual state of redevelopment. Taking the form of a tiered urban landscape, the work captures the essence of generic architectural idealisms. At the top of the installation sits a dessert tray, holding inside a makeshift Cinderella style castle supported by utilitarian constructions below. The structures are encircled by a sushi train ferrying a convoy of notable skyscrapers, and with it the ideals of progress and social mobility.' Open Tuesday to Saturday 11am - 6pm

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1 year ago

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'It's a small world (after all)' opens this Wednesday @public.gallery ! 🎡🎠🎢 Taking global spectacles such as World's Fairs and consumer capitals like Disneyland as sites of inquiry, the exhibition presents a large-scale kinetic installation of an urban landscape, producing a miniature world that interrogate how ideologies materialise into objects, commodities, and the built environment. Opening reception 6-8pm 30 Oct, on till 7 Dec

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1 year ago

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Last day of residency exhibition @fukuoka_asian_art_museum ! Installation images of '不動産' (Immovables) and '宝船' (Treasure Ship) in the exchange gallery. Photography by Kawasaki Ittoku.

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2 years ago

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Final weekend of our two part exhibition 'Urban Phenomenology' with @nahokawabe and @tomohiro.0610 at the exchange gallery in @fukuoka_asian_art_museum and @artistcafe_fukuoka . A massive thank you to all the staff at @faam_air and faam who have been so supportive throughout the residency ! This piece '次へ' (To the Next) is on show at the grand studio, featuring TENJIN☆BIGBANG by Marble Angel. Photography by Kawasaki Ittoku (last image @mikiera83 ).

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2 years ago