Freya Fang Wang

Freya Fang Wang

Born in 1986, in Beijing, China.

Chinese artist based in London.

2021-2023 | Royal College of Art (UK), MA

2006-2010 | Central Academy of Fine Art (China), BA

2002-2006 | Fine Art School Affiliated to Central Academy of Fine Art (China)

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Freya’s practice is deeply rooted in the interconnection between Taoist philosophy and her immersive experience of the natural world. While she was born and raised in an Eastern context, she seeks to extend to the universal human experience beyond the distinctions of Eastern and Western cultures.

Through an engagement with cosmology seen through the prism of Taoism, she transforms this rich philosophy to speak to contemporary philosophical and social concerns around the climate and spirituality.

A meditative painting process engaging her bodily awareness and consciousness, Freya taps into vibrations of the cosmic energy field in the universe. In doing so, she explores the Taoist concept of interconnection and unity. This reflectiveness creates in her practice a visual language of blurry and entangled organic circular shapes, mirroring the interconnection between all creatures in the natural world.

Freya has a passion for exploring the possibility of combining Eastern and Western approaches to materiality. By combining rice paper, acrylic, ink, plaster, and glass paper she is developing a unique textured surface for her ethereal paintings. The paintings span time and space reaching from the ancient to the modern world.

It could be said that art provides her with a way to exist in balance with the universe and to approach what Carl Jung called 'the secret code', bringing order to chaos, which is what Lao Tzu called 'the Tao'.

Mar.2023. London

Zi-You said,

'The Notes of Earth then are simply those which come from its myriad apertures;

The Notes of Man may just be compared to those which (are brought from the tubes of) bamboo-

Allow me to ask about The Notes of Heaven .'

Zi-Qi replied,

'Blowing the myriad differences, making them stop [proceed] of themselves, sealing their self-selecting

- who is it that stirs it all up?'

—— Zhuang Tsu, Qi Wu Lun

子游曰：

「地籟則眾竅是已，

人籟則比竹是已。