About Richard Yeung

Richard (PuiChing) Yeung (b. 1995) is an artist based between Hong Kong and London. He gained his BA Painting from Wimbledon College of Art, University of Art London, in 2018, and his MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2020. Through his practice, Yeung creates imagery around the notion of a prolonged journey through a post-apocalyptic world.   

Yeung’s works convey the overwhelming scenery of the forthcoming. Through digital and physical paintings, the artist depicts the ruins of civilisation, and questions all that will be new under the sun. His practice considers and pays tribute to Romanticism and the attempt to resurrect the sublime. The works pay direct attention to contemporary unrest between populations, while considering the position of both static objects and nature in relation to his. By exploring the fragility of civilisation, Yeung’s latest work considers the apocalyptic wasteland as a blank canvas; a form of salvation for the pure and honest. It is an instinctive reflection on the artist’s own encounters, but with a symbolic twist that positions us as part of the possible future depicted in these works.

Education

2018-2020 Royal College of Art, London, MA Painting

2015-2018 Wimbledon College of Art, University of Art London, BA Painting

Awards & Prizes

2018 Clyde & Co Art Selected Artist

Exhibitions

2020 Future Lab of Degree Show, ShangHai China

2020 CROSSING BORDER _BORDER CROSSING — INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF

2020 INTERMEDIA 越過界, Hong Kong

2020 RA Summer Exhibition 2020, London

2020 50/50, FOLD Gallery London, London

2020 RCA2020, Royal College of Art (Online)

2020 Beacon: Selections from the 2020 Royal College of Art Painting programme, Josh Lilley Gallery (online)

2020 Snapshot, Royal College of Art, London