My 2024 was a tumultuous but passionate year.

I challenged myself, had many setbacks, learned a lot, accomplished one of my dreams.

我的2024年是动荡但充满激情的一年。

我在挑战自己的同时经历了许多挫折，学到了很多，也圆了自己的一个梦。

After my undergraduate studies in China, I set my sights on the Royal College of Arts, leading to my move to the UK. In the first half year, I was highly nervous, suffered from moderate depression and cried every - the language and cultural barriers felt unsurmountable. I was naive but not the type to give up easily.

在中国读完本科后，我紧接着入学皇家艺术学院并随之搬到英国。整个上半年的我每一天都高度紧张并患有中度抑郁，每天都爆哭——语言和文化障碍让我感到难以逾越。我很天真，但不是轻易放弃的人。

In 2024, I decided to travel more, with an exposure therapy goal - Italy, Germany, Malta, and all across Egypt. These travels inspired my strong perception of cultural differences and identity diversity and prompted me to think about the impact of different root cultures on contemporary art expression. I started to enjoy the process of creation, collaboration, and commentary with partners from various backgrounds at RCA. This year, I realised how lucky I am to have met precious friends, teachers and tutors with broad horizons with broad horizons and willing to impart their wisdom. They guided me when I needed them most; I felt lost and could not see my North Star.

2024年，我决定到处旅行，用暴露疗法让自己更快了解这个全新世界的运行法则——意大利、德国、马耳他和埃及各地。这些旅行激发了我对文化差异和身份多样性的强烈感知，促使我思考不同的根文化对当代艺术表达的影响。在RCA，我开始享受与来自不同背景的伙伴一起创作、合作和评论的过程，我意识到自己是多么幸运，遇到了眼界开阔、愿意传授智慧的珍贵朋友、老师和导师。他们在我最需要他们的时候指引我；即便我感到迷失，即便我总是看不到我的北极星。

Weeds, 5 day long endurance performance, Royal College of Art, 2024

The UK art ecosystem and RCA have also opened the door for my art internationally. In 2024, I have exhibited in 9 art museums and galleries worldwide. Among them was the moment of significant breakthrough for my creation: "The Joy of Fish and Water" action painting debuted internationally at the Malta Biennale. Exhibiting "Put Desire on the Table" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing and Arusha Gallery in London inspired me to study the relationship between different spatial dimensions and time and explore the boundaries of painting and performance art. "I Have a Joint of Sheep Bone" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" were exhibited at the Shanghai International Art Festival, they showed my concern for ecology and understanding of the life philosophy of "Tao".

英国艺术生态和RCA为我的艺术打开了国际化的大门。2024年，我在全球9家艺术博物馆和画廊展出：

其中，是我创作取得重大突破的时刻：《鱼水之欢》行动绘画在马耳他双年展上首次亮相国际；在北京当代艺术馆和伦敦阿鲁沙画廊展出《把欲望放在台面上》激发了我研究不同空间维度与时间的关系，探索绘画和行为艺术的边界；《我有一对羊骨关节》和《本草纲目》在上海国际艺术节展出，它们展示了我对生态的关注和对“道”的生命哲学的理解。

Weeds, action painting, 245cm*245cm, 2024

Selected as the main page of Painting on RCA's website

My RCA graduation piece, "Weeds," represents a culmination and amalgamation of my experience since moving to the UK. It is a continuous performance art creation on the "boundary" and fluidity of the Asian art identity in the present, heavily influenced by traditional Chinese landscape painting. It was one of the most emotionally and physically draining experiences of my life. The recognition followed as this work was selected as the main page of Painting on RCA's website and to represent the RCA graduates at the British Consulate in San Francisco, USA.

我在RCA的毕业作品“野草”代表了我移居英国以来的总结。这是一场关于当今亚洲艺术身份的“边界”和流动性的持续行为艺术创作，深受中国传统山水画的影响。这是我一生中最耗费情感和体力的经历之一，我很开心这件作品后续被选为RCA网站绘画主页，并代表RCA毕业生前往美国旧金山的英国领事馆展出。

The Joy of Fish and Water, Malta Biennale, 2024

Towards the end, I am slowly putting down roots in this foreign soil, which has been challenging and always accompanied by self-doubt, but things are looking up. I obtained a Global Talent Visa following an endorsement as "emerging talent" from the Arts Council of England and found a spacious and bright personal studio in London, which are great help in charting my course for the next few years.

回首这一年，我在这片异国的土壤上缓慢的扎根，这无疑是艰难的，常常伴随着自我怀疑，但好在一切都在往好的方向发展。我获得了英国艺术委员会“新兴人才”的认可，拿到了全球人才签证，并在伦敦找到了一间宽敞明亮的个人工作室，这些都极大的帮助我规划接下来几年的发展方向。

Published by FAD Magazine, Written by Mark Westall

Looking at 2025, I hope for a year of plenty, calm and creation! I will focus more on thinking about modernity and contemporaneity, studying "boundary & time", learning the relationship between individual life practice and desire, exploring the development motivation behind similar abstract language in different aesthetic systems, and continue to explore the boundaries between painting and performance art.

展望2025年，我希望这是一个沉下心稳步创作的一年！我会更加注重对现代性与当代性的思考，研究“边界与时间”，学习个体生命实践与欲望的关系，探索不同美学体系中相似抽象语言背后的发展动因，继续探索绘画与行为艺术之间的边界。

I can't wait to start a new chapter and look forward to what my future self and my art will look like!

迫不及待开启新的篇章，期待未来的自己和艺术将会是什么样子！

2024

Swimming In A Storm