Emerging Potters – Issue 20
RCA Show 2020
Yifan Gao Glass, mixed media. 24.0432cm x 9.486cm x 9.6261. Born in Wuxi, China, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in fashion jewellery from the London College of Fashion in 2018, and then went on to study Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art. As a fashion designer her work has repeatedly appeared in London Fashion Week as well as international fashion magazines such as I:D, Vogue Italia, dazed and WWD. Yifan’s work explores the possibility of where a highly advanced civilisation has adapted to an Atlantis-like living environment. Human beings will have returned to the one place where life started, and the hyperintelligent future tech is formed in symbiosis with sea creatures and structures. Here, the organic and the artificial are blended together, which her visual combination of metal and glass shows - also including geometric forms and seemingly arbitrary structures.
Contact: Yifan.Gao@network.rca.ac.uk
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