About the artist

b. China based between Glasgow. Shipei Wang completed an Msc in History and Theories in Modern and Contemporary Art from University of Edinburgh in 2019 and her MAFA Fine Art at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2018. She is the receipt of the Royal Scottish Academy Bene Scholz Award for the most promising work by a Scottish artist under 35, the RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award

Shipei uses symbolic and imagined subject matters to highlight the tenderness of sexuality, relationships and fragility of organic bodies. Her eerie and poetic imageries are odes to the gentleness and complexity of existence. Shipei's practice stretches across material translations between painting, screen printing and 3D rendering.About the artist