GUO YAGE

Guo Yage, born in 1998, London and Shanghai based artist. Education: 2020-2022 Slade School of Fine Art MA (Honours); 2017-2020 Slade School of Fine Art BFA (Honours)

Guo Yage’s paintings find inspiration in literature, nature, mythology and astrology. In her recent output, she depicts scenes steeped in melancholy from novels such as Albert Camus’L’étranger, Feng Zhi’s Sonnet, Hermann Hesse‘ Siddhartha. Androgynous figures emerge in incandescent silhouettes cast against jet black grounds, seemingly lost in thought. Guo’s work is characterised by an ethereality, portraying visions which are at once softly blurred and sharply focused. Set within romantic backdrops of landscapes such as stained-glass windows and natural fields, her new paintings are imbued with an oneiric atmosphere. Guo inserts her own emotions into her work, charging them with personal memories and fleeting moments.
Selected Group Exhibition: 2023 A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, London; 2022 Under The Jaguar Sun, Kravitz Contemporary; 2022 飲食男女 Eat Drink Man Woman, The 180 Strand, London; 2022 What Now? PM/AM Gallery, London; 2022 EYES, DUSK, PHANTASMAGORIA, Rupture XIBIT, London; 2022 A/D D/A, ZERUI Gallery, London; 2022 ASSEMBLE, V.O.Curation, London; 2022 Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London