Yu Sun’s practice explores how images emerge through material negotiation. For her, printmaking is an open system—responsive to pressure, time, and resistance—where form arises through process, not prescription. Rooted in the Daoist idea of wu wei (non-action), she uses intaglio techniques involving rotation, repetition, and contact. Rather than control the image, she responds to where it begins to appear—letting material speak. Her submitted work, developed through rotating a zinc plate, traces the shift of a rectangle into a near-circle—an image shaped by weight and motion, not drawing. The print becomes a record of contact formed through time and repetition. Sun graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2025 with an MA in Print. Her work was selected for Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023, and has shown at Southwark Park Gallery and Secret 7. She has given talks and tutorials at Norwich University of the Arts, and her work is held in private collections.
Yu Sun’s practice explores how images emerge through material negotiation. For her, printmaking is an open system—responsive to pressure, time, and resistance—where form arises through process, not prescription. Rooted in the Daoist idea of wu wei (non-action), she uses intaglio techniques involving rotation, repetition, and contact. Rather than control the image, she responds to where it begins to appear—letting material speak. Her submitted work, developed through rotating a zinc plate, traces the shift of a rectangle into a near-circle—an image shaped by weight and motion, not drawing. The print becomes a record of contact formed through time and repetition. Sun graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2025 with an MA in Print. Her work was selected for Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023, and has shown at Southwark Park Gallery and Secret 7. She has given talks and tutorials at Norwich University of the Arts, and her work is held in private collections.