Yuxuan(Sheyl) Zhu

Yuxuan Zhu (b.2000) Nanjing,China.

Graduated from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in Product Design in 2022, she is now studying Print at the Royal College of Art. 

Yuxuan's practice explores the relationship between an individual's inner soul and unspeakable emotions. She works across multiple disciplines including printmaking, handmaking, photography and drawing.

The dreams that are forgotten upon waking might never have really existed, leaving behind only a sense of passing time and indistinct feelings. 

The feeling is just like throwing a stone into calm water. It's meaningless, yet at one point it's a thrilling experience. The process, the perception, the memory, the longing together constitute the emotion and state of the moment.

I enjoy using images to tell the story of unspeakable feelings, capturing feelings and emotions in subtle ways, using delicate, gentle, soft fluctuations through rubbing the pastels on the paper surface with fingers to establish a link with the heart, so that my works often have a vague narrative.

Ambiguous, ephemeral, fickle and distant states form the starting point of my creations. Using the images of ripples as a vehicle, I interpret this process in a variety of methods: mixed media, pastels, photography, printmaking, showing my exploration of human emotions and inner worlds.