J. Yuen Ling Chiu (or, Ling)
Ling is a British Canadian printmaker and artist educator based in London, UK. She specialises in printmaking in education, and has extensive experience delivering curriculum aligned teaching, and short courses. Trained in lithography, relief printing, screenprinting, intaglio and digital media, Ling’s multi-disciplinary print practice is based in her Woolwich studio.
Her work explores the architecture and pattern of memory, with especial attention to relationships between urban landscapes, migration, and empire. Her studio practice often shifts between themes. From pigeons to pot plants, rose-coloured visions of Hong Kong to anxiety for our planet’s future, all of the work is underpinned by a formal exploration of lower toxicity, more sustainable printmaking methods and materials.
Her work often includes a participatory or site specific element as a point of entry for visitors.
Ling graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with an MFA in 2005, and has a PGDip in Academic Practice from UAL. She has exhibited widely in the UK, and has had residencies in The Netherlands, USA, Wales, and Qatar.
She is a member of The London Group, Thames-Side Print Studios, Greenwich Printmakers, Printmakers Council and East London Printmakers.
Ling’s academic research examines inclusive pedagogy as it is applied to technical spaces in higher education, with a particular attention to printmaking spaces. Acknowledging the barriers and biases inherent in making practices, and engaging in conversations and actions that seek to remove barriers, makes good making. This runs parallel to personal practice research on the sustainable future of printmaking:
“There is a place for printmaking 10, 50, 100 years from now, but it is incumbent upon us to be responsible makers; to not live in a bubble. We must use what can be grown when we can, and be precious with anything mined, distilled or shipped. We need to include more people, which means acknowledging where there are barriers: these lovely presses and processes were not designed for my body, my person, my ability, and they may not be designed for yours either… but I am going to do it anyway, and help you do it, too. This is how printmaking not only survives, but thrives.”
— Extract from interview with LCC Print Workshop
Ling is an elected member of The London Group and Greenwich Printmakers, an associate member of East London Printmakers, and an member of Printmakers Council and Thames-side Print Studio.
