London Miles Gallery
email: info@londonmiles.com
London Miles Gallery
email: info@londonmiles.com
Xue Wang was born in northern China in 1980, the year of the mischievous monkey. After a BA degree in Fashion in China at Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art in Shenyang she relocated to London aged 22 and to finish her MA at University of Westminster. In all honesty Wang's career has not followed a linear path. Painting and drawing, playing around with ideas, juxtaposing images and allowing her imagination free reign have all helped guide her development. The self-reflective intimacy of art, which has always been latent in her, forced Wangs transition from fashion to painting. Although Wang have been sketching ever since she can remember, it is only in the last eighteen months that she has turned her attention seriously to oil painting.
" My
creative impulse is driven by a fascination with childhood paraphernalia:
dolls, toys, fairy tales, stage sets, fun fairs, found objects mixed with
whimsy. These personal recollections are complimented by the cultural heritage
of Victoriana, vintage fashion, film iconography, pin-up imagery etc. We cannot
escape the past and our sweet yesterdays, whether imagined or real, are my
repository. Any search for particular meaning in my idiosyncratic work may not
yield much. If one word were chosen to describe my paintings, it would be ‘edgy’.
Superficially they may appear ‘cute’ but my intention is to unsettle, albeit
subtly. As the creeping wasp on the fairy cake does." - Wang
Currently Exhibiting at London Miles Gallery.
Bubbling Under
A Narrow Escape
Framed Heart
1926
Godzilla is Ill
Sweetness and Light
Round we Go
Que Sera, Sera
The Aisle of No Importance
The Last Leg Over