Wah Yan Au | Dreams of a Toad, 2017
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
Image Dimensions: 29 x 20 cm
Edition of 30
Framed only
Au Way Yan is a Hong Kong based visual artist and printmaker whose drawings have been published in numerous local magazines and newspapers. She created a comic series Me1 World, and published the book Dreams of a Toad which is a collage of prints, poems and stories. She also published the comics Praying Mantis Combat. Her debut solo exhibition "Fragments" was held in 2013 and hereafter her solo exhibition“Dreams of a toad” was held in 2019 , “The Tender Mosquito” in 2021 and “The Dance of the dancing plant” in 2023. Her work is of a prophetic nature and constantly blurs the boundary between reality and fiction, using surrealist narratives to peep into one’s mind. Au Way Yan graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After teaching at high schools for ten years, she became a student again and got a Master's degree from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, focusing on printmaking and is particularly interested in image-narratives, book publishing, and printing techniques. She has devoted much of her creative efforts to printmaking in recent years. She was an artist-in-residence at Proyecto’ace, Argentina in 2017 and also formed “Printhow”, a printing collective, with friends a few years ago.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
Image Dimensions: 29 x 20 cm
Edition of 30
Framed only
Au Way Yan is a Hong Kong based visual artist and printmaker whose drawings have been published in numerous local magazines and newspapers. She created a comic series Me1 World, and published the book Dreams of a Toad which is a collage of prints, poems and stories. She also published the comics Praying Mantis Combat. Her debut solo exhibition "Fragments" was held in 2013 and hereafter her solo exhibition“Dreams of a toad” was held in 2019 , “The Tender Mosquito” in 2021 and “The Dance of the dancing plant” in 2023. Her work is of a prophetic nature and constantly blurs the boundary between reality and fiction, using surrealist narratives to peep into one’s mind. Au Way Yan graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After teaching at high schools for ten years, she became a student again and got a Master's degree from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, focusing on printmaking and is particularly interested in image-narratives, book publishing, and printing techniques. She has devoted much of her creative efforts to printmaking in recent years. She was an artist-in-residence at Proyecto’ace, Argentina in 2017 and also formed “Printhow”, a printing collective, with friends a few years ago.
Screenprint
Media Dimensions: 36 x 28 cm
Image Dimensions: 29 x 20 cm
Edition of 30
Framed only
Au Way Yan is a Hong Kong based visual artist and printmaker whose drawings have been published in numerous local magazines and newspapers. She created a comic series Me1 World, and published the book Dreams of a Toad which is a collage of prints, poems and stories. She also published the comics Praying Mantis Combat. Her debut solo exhibition "Fragments" was held in 2013 and hereafter her solo exhibition“Dreams of a toad” was held in 2019 , “The Tender Mosquito” in 2021 and “The Dance of the dancing plant” in 2023. Her work is of a prophetic nature and constantly blurs the boundary between reality and fiction, using surrealist narratives to peep into one’s mind. Au Way Yan graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After teaching at high schools for ten years, she became a student again and got a Master's degree from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, focusing on printmaking and is particularly interested in image-narratives, book publishing, and printing techniques. She has devoted much of her creative efforts to printmaking in recent years. She was an artist-in-residence at Proyecto’ace, Argentina in 2017 and also formed “Printhow”, a printing collective, with friends a few years ago.
