Dreams of a New Moon: Lunar New Year exhibition celebration at Central Saint Martins

Dreams of a new moon will take place from 20 – 25 January at CSM’s Lethaby Gallery and The Street. The exhibition private view is on Saturday 21 January from 2pm - 5pm at Lethaby Gallery.

The artists featured: 

Victoria Kosasie - BA Fine Art alum

Victoria Kosasie is an Indonesian artist based in London. She works with performance and video. Her practice is a scrutiny of conflicting values; values that she had internalised without question when she was younger, against her current values adopted as an adult woman.

Kelly Wu - BA Fine Art XD1

Kelly Wu is a queer Chinese-British artist reading BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. The artist specialises in sculpture, performance, and experimental filmmaking.

Heiyi Tam - MA Art and Science

Heiyi Tam is a Hong Kong-born artist based in London whose work surrounds childlike wonder, the intangibility of childhood memories, and the experience of the gradual merging of Eastern and Western cultures since moving to the UK at the age of 15.

Mizuki Nishiyama - MA Fine Art alum

Mizuki Nishiyama is a London based, mixed-Japanese artist; creating raw, vivid and multifaceted paintings that explore the fragile human condition. As a mixed-Japanese artist, Nishiyama draws inspiration from the East and West.

Catherine Yuhui Li - MA Culture, Criticism and Curation

Catherine Yuhui Li is a London-based curator and watercolour painter. Born in 1997, China, Catherine has built a long-term experience of making mix-media paintings centred on traditional Chinese wash paintings since childhood.

Dien Berziga - BA Fine Art

Dien Berziga is a mixed-Chinese artist based in London. Interested in the narrative created through the process of seeing, Berziga uses layered pieces of latex, mixed with thin glazes of paint and thick impasto to depict a vision plane where numerous shapes and images fall in and out of focus and contain scattered information throughout its surface.

Jiaqi Zheng - BA Fine Art XD1

Jiaqi Zheng (she/her) is a Chinese creative facilitator. With a particular focus on participatory and socially-engaged art, she uses sustainable materials and arts & crafts workshops as her methods to communicate.

Michael Ka Chun Li - MBA

Michael Li is a Hong Kong designer, photographer, entrepreneur, and art collector. Michael is currently doing a postgraduate course (Master of Business Administration) in Central Saint Martins while working closely with streetwear brands during his term of study.

Rui Liu - MA Fine Art

Rui LiuI is a second year MAFA student at Central Saint Martins. She usually works with sculpture and installation as her medium. She also likes to study Chinese culture and art, so Rui has created new works for this exhibition.

Ziyan Liu - MA Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies alum

Liu Ziyan (b.1997, China) studied Contemporary Photography: Practice and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Technology and self-identity are the main subjects of her practice and art study.

Menglu Yuan - BA Fine Art

Menglu Yuan is a Chinese-Australian creative currently studying BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Her work often explores one’s experiences of “growing up”, and investigates the bi-directional relationship between one and their social environment.

Shengjia Zhang - MA Fine Art alum

Shengjia Zhang is a video and installation artist born in Guangdong, China and based in London. He graduated from Central Saint Martins in MA Fine Art as a holder of the Mona Hatoum Bursary (2020-2022). His recent research interests include Chinese folk beliefs, immigrant communities, Orientalism, etc.

The exhibition continues on Wednesday 25th January at Central Saint Martins where the panel discussion titled Lost/Found in Translation will take place as a part of the Lunar New Year event. The panel will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of practitioners to discuss the creative potential found in translation.

The panelists include:

Chair: Iris Yau, Teaching, Learning, and Attainment Coordinator (Central Saint Martins)

Speakers:

Andrea Lioy, BAGCD Practices Coordinator (Central Saint Martins)

Daniel York Loh, Associate Artistic Director (Kakilang Arts)

Hyun Cho, Founder of Translation Cases, PhD Candidate (Central Saint Martins)

Karen Harris, Intercultural Communication Trainer (UAL Language Centre)

Nicky Harman, Translator (Sinoist Books)