Graduated from NCCU with a master degree in Journalism, I am now a freelance photographer in commercial and art. Having a huge crush on cats but also being allergic to them is the reason why I paint cats. Meemaws are cats who tries to imitate great art works and celebrities in order to reveal the feminine issues in both pop culture and fine art.
M.SUNWU, aka 猴太子, is an illustrator, musician, weird guy from U.K.
At the age of 18, he enrolled in Bexhill College to study Music Technology, Film, Photography and Media before securing a position to annoy their tutors (with lots of questions) studying Fine Art at Hastings College. After growing bored of the linear style of the course, he found a new adventure in recording and creating music…using a microphone balanced in a shoe (haven’t you heard of Lo-Fi?)
This passion eventually lead him to leave his home town and travel to Bath to gain a Diploma in Music Production before moving to London in pursuit of a Masters Degree In Popular Music.
Now after working with clients such as TWITCH, Schwarzkopf & OPEL and delving into projects with the British Arts Council and Edinburgh Fringe, he seeks their next big adventure in the tropical paradise of Taiwan.
Between illustrating and composing, he learns Mandarin at Taiwan Normal University to speak to their parent-in-laws (even if it is just to ask for more delicious food), day-dreams about living in a Sci-Fi movie and keeps up to date with mental health advocacy, especially Autism.
Ziroziro is a media artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Arts in animation. Her approaches include experimental animation, drawings and prints. Different techniques can be found in her work. The process is predominant the subject matter in her conceptual pieces. Her latest film had been selected in Zebra poetry festival in Germany 2019.
Participating the illustration art fair this year, because animation can be seen as a sequence of images. In response to the theme this year “whywhywhy” which means “badbadbad” in Mandarin language, When you look at individual frame, does it look bad as it is ? But as a sequence there is a meaning to convey. Should we focus on the process more than the result itself, for each artwork and for our achievements as well.
Better at drawing than talking. She likes to transform and
recreate ordinary objects into an unexpected artwork. Always want to bring some
small but interesting things in her works. Also, if it is possible, hope those
illustrations can become someone’s oasis in such a messy world.
Yu-Ting Cheng is an illustrator, maker, and dreamer currently based in Taipei, Taiwan. Born and raised in Taiwan, educated in the United States, received a BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design. She loves to create works that viewers can physically interact with, explore, and feel.
插畫風格偏好以線條表現為主,時而俐落時而童趣。曾接受線上青年藝術家交流平台Ground Ooh Art線上訪談、參與日本MOUNT ZINE寄售活動;並在今年受邀參加在東京agnès b gallery舉辦的“GIFT”畫作販售活動。
Cheng cheng 1988, Illustrator based in Taiwan. Graduated from Department of Public Relations & Advertising, SHU. Started her artwork since 2017. Cheng cheng is currently a freelance illustrator, who also working on her personal brand, doing the original goods and some fun works.
She was interview by Ground Ooh Art, a independent online media platform about young artist. And be invited to participate in the “GIFT, Tokyo” exhibition at agnès b gallery.
Asum Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan. An illustrations, mandala creator, psychology enthusiasts.
She graduated from the Department of Architecture of National Cheng-Kung University and was the editor of the journal of architecture and green life.
She is also a person who loves murmur and daydreaming. She is good at change abstract feelings into pictures. Warm tones and delicate brushstrokes are usually presented in Asum’s works. Also, pastel crayon and color pencil are her favorable materials for drawing. The subjects of her works are mostly from the observation of daily life, the reflection of life, and the description of her own heart. Asum tries to use paintings to observe others, and teach others to observe themselves by painting.
Like to paint with watercolors and acrylic,and other material
as clay, paper-cutting & post-production by mac.Bright colors, heavy
coating is the hallmark. Theme of artworks are mostly based on the light and
shadow of inner feelings.
I am ” deliciousy meatloaf”, a person who often
forgets about the fact of being alive. I grow in a house, in which lives a
washing machine monster that feed on socks. I put my lifelong enthusiasm into
raise an unusual large white Shiba Inu. I prefer things in imbalanced state
than in equivalent. My works are portrayals of anomalous dreams. Dreams are
like illusions, and they present modern drama, pornography and violence mixed
with a little bit happiness for me. I myself turn “dreams” into real
art works, so I no longer need to dream about grogeous and unattainable wonderful
future. All I want is bring all the precious memories in this life with me to
the next life.
Started with graffiti in 2007, picked up the spray and painting in the streets of Taiwan under the name of Mouse, the plague spread from South to North. Being often asked, “Why are you called CreepyMouse? ” Because graffiti people are like mice in public eye, searching and taking people’s food without anyone notice in the middle of night, so graffiti people took away the city walls as pieces of canvas for graffiti, the feeling of rebellious and full of character to the public which is also known Creepy.
Follow with Calligraphy in 2011, first started with Gothic body for practice, eventually contacted a number of domestic and foreign Calligrapher and learn from them, finally applied Calligraphy onto graffiti / art, also was invited to join the International artistic team “Calligraffiti” in 2015. As for the content of the work is mainly inspired in life emotions, sometimes it’s inspired from life, applied on the art piece which link the word and reality together at the end, making it a kind of combination of graphic design layout concept.
Hsi Chun Huang – TOP 60 MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY ART 2019 AWARD ARTIST(1985) was born in Taipei, Taiwan.
After getting an art degree at the National Taiwan University of Arts, Hsi Chun chose Europe as a starting point to begin his full-time creation in 2013. He loves to observe and portray the moments that touch him in his daily life, obsessed with just saving bits of memories, of moments in time, and create an intimacy that engages the audiences to enjoy a world of imagination in their own perspectives.
“ My artwork is like the path to unconditional self-acceptance, and the way to express my inner world, there’s a sense of satisfaction from the deep of my heart while I’m doing it. My meticulous strokes conjure my delicate senses alive, to invite viewers in a gentle way, and hope the story behind may resonate with someone who has had a similar experience, so they would smile at my paintings knowingly. ” – Hsi Chun Huang
Taipei-based domain-crosser of fine art and cognitive linguistics. Completed her BFA in Painting at Taipei National University of the Arts in 2012, then completed her MA in Linguistics at National Taiwan University in 2016. In 2019, her interdisciplinary study of paintings has been published in a Walter de Gruyter book series.
Her subjects include figures and animals, focusing on the expression of emotions, intimacy, fragility, gender fluidity, and the urban experience in Taipei.
Her work has been shown in the 26th Young Designer’s Exhibition in Taipei, and her latest work can be found on her Instagram: deityparty. She can be contacted at deityparty@gmail.com.
Nationality/ location: Taipei Tool or materials: colored pencils, hard pastels, collage
Innate curiosity has brought up my slow pace on everything including doing art works. Thanks to the ability to imagine more completely with the slow personality, I paint my inner world in a delicate way.
If take some kind of music style to describe my works, it would be a remix of R&B and Nagashi. That may be a weird one but funny, telling those daily thoughts of mine about love, contradictory times and melancholy sweetness of life.
Lady C graduated from Fu Jen Catholic University with a master’s degree in Applied Arts. She is an ordinary full-time career woman, but also an adjunct teacher of art and design.She sometimes works on piecework basis for the cases of design, in order to cultivate moral character.
After she got depression, she regained the enthusiasm of drawing. In addition to record down those bizarre dreams caused by the illness, she starts to untangle the kinks both in the reality and in her memory. For her, drawing is neither a reverie nor a livelihood, but a one of ways to take care of herself. Her favorite tools are pencils, pastels and blank papers.
Graduated from the Department of visual communication design,
National Taiwan University of art, specializing in hand-painted illustration
and corporate identity image, now engaged in graphic design.
I love painting. Hope that I can fill my happy life with a lot of products I have made. I founded an Illustration brand named Yohand studio in December, 2011. I use yohand supergirl and her friends as a model to make some items that I really like and feel happy. Hope our products can make people feel warm and happiness.
IntrovertDreamer (Tien) was a girl used to work with words more than colors. After graduation, she set out the journey of pursuing her passion for life and found it lies in art and illustration. She was especially drawn to the unique narrative voice illustration can create and the wide range of possibilities illustration plays around with.
Tien learned how to embrace art in Lucy Chen’s creative art courses. She officially started her career in 2018 and was one of the shortlisted artists of 2020 Asia Illustrations Annual Awards Art Exhibition. Now she mainly does hand-drawings and keeps on experimenting with new ideas.
Yuki kodaira is an illustrator living in Japan.she grew up surrounded by beautiful nature at the foot of Mt.Yatsugatake.she majored in music,regional activation at university . She was influenced by experience in her life : childhood spend in nature ,music,slow food,colorful flowers.
My name is OKASHINASEKAI,It means a crazy world in Japanese. I like cute things, so I want to combine them to develop a crazy world. Draw a strawberry human like a self-introduction image.
It’s almost 15 years since I drew an illustration. Hand-drawn animals draw in various ways such as watercolor, acrylic and colored pencils. I am also happy to be at my favorite art fair in Taiwan.
Raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan. Graduated from the Graphic Communication Arts of NTUA. In 2012, I established the “A Fun Day” facebook fan page as a drawing dairy, which serializes the humor and touches in life.
I like what life natually contain, I like everything happening by its way, even chaos, the chaos life have is like cloud random watering plants. Its warmth is like the sun, the sun does not exist for keeping ones warm. I like the natural humor in life, which is easy understandable. And no matter how life is tense or slow, it always has the clarity of being.
Through painting, accidentally I learn the sense of life, I learn that life is painting without conclusions, I learn to be grateful, grateful for the pulse existed before we try to feel alive.
However, everything is still changing, reminding me that there are so many things will surprise me.
“A Fun Day” is daily life, the life between event and event, the material between cell membrane and nucleus.
Life is like the medium, sometimes is flat and sour, sometimes is humor and warm, filled like air.
By breathing in and out, I find out the things between planet and planet is the vast universe.
Ms.Y, graduated from journalism, currently working as a graphic designer in Taipei.
Good at drawing black&white pictures by water-based ball pen. Her works are mostly inspired by personal experience and daily life. There are lots of tiny lines in her illustration. She always finds her inner peace while filling up the canvas. Ms.Y’s next plan is to explore color with different materials, looking forward to creating interesting illustrations.
Sometimes defeated by self-suspicious and laziness, Ms.Y is not going to give up becoming an independent illustrator. She’ll work hard on it.
Mushroom Girl expect that “Eat MushRoom” stands for relaxtion and ease. You do not need to think about any annoying matters. Let us put aside all troubles in our real life. “Eat MushRoom” will lead you enter for the endless fantasy world.
Born in Taiwan in 1990. Travel around to absorb different
cultural senses, integrate reality, dreams and fantasies, and create new
perspectives that do not exist but also exist in the world. At the age of 13,
he began to encounter ghosts of different dimensions. She was often dreamed of
ghosts and dreams of repeating the death process and dialogue in the first
person. She even woke himself away from the horrible fantasy dreams while
sleeping. All kinds of incredible journeys of life, let them begin to think
about the meaning of the self, good and bad, death and existence, and create
everything in art.