Hennessy Stallion Heritage — Launch Event at Guanfu Museum, Beijing

In December 2025, I was invited to participate in the launch of Hennessy's 骏马典藏 (Stallion Heritage Collection) — a special edition release celebrated with an exclusive event held at the 观复博物馆 (Guanfu Museum) in Beijing, one of China's most celebrated private museums, founded by the renowned collector and cultural commentator Ma Weidu.

The pairing of Hennessy — with its centuries of craft and its long history of commissioning artists to interpret its legacy — with the Guanfu Museum felt deeply intentional. 观复博物馆 is a place devoted to the meticulous study and preservation of classical Chinese objects: porcelain, furniture, lacquerware, clocks. It is a space that understands how objects carry time, how the crafted thing outlasts the hand that made it.

The 骏马典藏 (literally "Majestic Horse Heritage") draws on the horse as a motif deeply embedded in Chinese aesthetic and cultural history — a symbol of strength, freedom, and nobility. My contribution to this project was to bring these layered associations into visual form, finding the point where a French cognac tradition and a Chinese artistic inheritance could meet with mutual respect.

The evening at 观复博物馆 was a fitting setting: surrounded by objects that have survived dynasties, the launch felt less like a product event and more like a conversation across centuries.

Dragon Pavilion — Lunar New Year Commission for ESEA Contemporary, Mancheste

For the 2024 Lunar New Year — the Year of the Wood Dragon — I was commissioned by ESEA Contemporary in Manchester to create Dragon Pavilion (龍之館), an original illustration that would serve as the centrepiece of their celebration programme.

ESEA Contemporary has been platforming artists and art informed by East and Southeast Asian backgrounds since 1986, and to receive this commission felt both like a responsibility and a gift. The brief was open and generous: imagine a dragon inhabiting the gallery itself.

My starting point was conceptual. Since dragons do not exist in the physical world, they are, in a sense, already creatures of exhibitions — beings that exist only when narrated and shown. So I conceived of a Dragon Pavilion where ESEA Contemporary's own spaces and architectural features are reimagined and deconstructed: the exhibition rooms become both separate and interconnected, glimpses of installations and projections visible through the body of the dragon as it moves through the building.

The illustration was produced as a limited edition signed giclée print (edition of 20), available in green, red, and yellow, printed on acid-free matte fine art paper using platinum etching. A tote bag edition was also produced. All proceeds support ESEA Contemporary's artistic programme.

Royal Salute × Boundless — WBDS Silver Award for Illustration

In early 2024, the illustration I created for Royal Salute's Lunar New Year Special Edition — in collaboration with Boundless Brand Design — was recognised with a Silver Award by the World Brand Design Society (WBDS), one of the leading international bodies celebrating excellence in brand and packaging design.

The commission asked me to interpret the theme of Ignite the New Year for Royal Salute's 21-year-old Scotch whisky. Born in China and now based in London, I found the brief both personally resonant and creatively open: how do you capture the energy, warmth, and expansiveness of the Lunar New Year in an image that must also feel luxurious, timeless, and global?

The resulting illustration drew on my practice of layering Eastern visual traditions with contemporary sensibility — rich colour, intricate line work, celebratory motifs — while maintaining the restraint that a luxury spirits brand requires. Working with the Boundless team was a genuine collaboration, their understanding of the brand complementing the illustration's narrative.

To have that work recognised by the WBDS was a welcome acknowledgement that illustration has a meaningful place in the world of luxury brand design — not as surface decoration but as a way of storytelling at scale.

Shanghairen Reception at the French Consulate, Shanghai

In December 2023, I attended a reception hosted at the French Consulate in Shanghai to celebrate Shanghairen (上海人) magazine — an evening that brought together artists, writers, editors, and cultural figures whose work in some way shapes the conversation around contemporary Shanghai life.

The French Consulate, with its elegant architecture and long history as a meeting point between French and Chinese cultural worlds, felt like the right setting for a publication that has always been interested in what happens when cultures overlap and influence one another. Shanghai itself has always been that city — a place where aesthetics from across the world have arrived, mixed, and become something new.

It was a privilege to be in a room full of people who care deeply about culture, design, and the written word. Events like this remind me that illustration — often a solitary practice made in the studio — ultimately exists to reach people, to be part of conversations and communities, to sit on a coffee table or hang on a wall and prompt a response.

Being present that evening, surrounded by colleagues and collaborators, felt like a quiet confirmation that the work is part of something larger than any single image.

World Illustration Awards 2022 — Professional Category Winner

In late 2022, I was honoured to receive the Professional Category Award at the World Illustration Awards (WIA), presented by the Association of Illustrators — one of the most prestigious recognitions in the international illustration industry.

The winning work was a cover illustration created for Shanghairen (上海人), a Shanghai-based cultural lifestyle magazine with a reputation for celebrating sophisticated urban culture and the arts. The brief invited me to create an image that felt both rooted in Chinese visual tradition and genuinely contemporary — a balance that sits at the heart of much of my practice.

The resulting illustration drew on classical compositional principles — layered planes, restrained colour, a certain ceremonial stillness — while opening outward to include modern references and a quietly playful sensibility. The cover had to work as both standalone art and as the face of an editorial identity: intimate enough to hold in your hands on a Shanghai street, expansive enough to contain the city it represents.

Receiving the WIA Professional Award was deeply meaningful — recognition not just of a single image but of the years spent finding a visual language that moves between two worlds. I am grateful to the AOI jury and to the Shanghairen team for trusting me with this commission.

E-Bay Show Interview London /June 2, 2019 (Copy) (Copy)

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AOI Member Show, London /October 2, 2019 (Copy)

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Jealous Needs You Art Show /February 22, 2016

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Summer Show Interview London /June 2, 2019

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Sounds of the City — Prize for Illustration 2017, London Transport Museum

In May 2017, I was selected to participate in Sounds of the City — the Prize for Illustration 2017, an exhibition of one hundred works chosen from over two thousand entries by an expert panel of judges from the art and design world. The exhibition was organised by the London Transport Museum in partnership with the Association of Illustrators (AOI), and ran at the Exterion Media Gallery within the museum in Covent Garden from 19 May to 3 September 2017.

The brief asked illustrators to capture sounds heard in UK cities in a single image — a challenge that felt deeply personal. Sound is invisible, yet it shapes how we inhabit space: the rumble beneath the street, the layered voices of a market, the particular quiet of a garden inside a city. For my contribution, I thought about the sounds of London as a kind of collage — not a single note but a composite of rhythms and registers, each layer telling a different story about who the city is for.

Being included in this show, alongside so many remarkable illustrators, was an affirmation that illustration can do more than decorate — it can listen, and speak back.

50×50 Screen Prints — Jealous Gallery at Saatchi Gallery

In January 2017, I had the opportunity to participate in the 50×50 exhibition — a curated group show of limited-edition screen prints held at the Saatchi Gallery in London, in partnership with Jealous Gallery, one of the city's foremost print studios and publishers based in Shoreditch.

Screen printing has always felt like a discipline that sits at the intersection of discipline and accident — the careful mixing of ink, the registration of layers, the moment the squeegee pulls across the mesh. For this edition, each participating artist produced a silk-screen print at the distinctive 50×50 centimetre format, inviting viewers to consider how the medium shapes the image as much as the image shapes the medium.

Contributing two prints to the show was a milestone moment early in my London practice — a chance to engage with a community of artists and makers who take the physical act of making seriously. Jealous Gallery's commitment to accessible, collectible printmaking has long made it a vital force in London's contemporary art scene, and to show within the grand spaces of the Saatchi Gallery gave the work an unexpected monumentality.

The prints explored themes of pattern, memory, and the decorative traditions I carry between East and West.

50 X 50 The Exhibition Showcase, Saatchi Gallery /November 23, 2016

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Sound Of The City Illustration Show London Transport Museum /November 2, 2017

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