monday morning eye candy: Yin Xiuzhen

by | Apr 27, 2026 | monday morning eye candy

From Wikipedia: Yin Xiuzhen (Chinese: 尹秀珍; born 1963 in Beijing)[1] is a Chinese sculpture and installation artist. She incorporates used textiles and keepsakes from her childhood in Beijing to show the connection between memory and cultural identity. She has also employed pots and pans, wooden chests, suitcases and cement in her work.[2] She studied oil painting in the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University, then called Beijing Normal Academy, in Beijing from 1985 to 1989.[3] After graduation, Yin taught at the high school attached to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, until her exhibition schedule became too demanding.[4] Her work has been described by Phyllis Teo as “possessing human warmth, intimacy, and a sense of nostalgia which propels introspection of one’s self—traditions, emotions, and beliefs. Thus, creating of a sense of community and belonging within the audience (Teo 2016, 205).”[5]

monday morning eye candy: Matthew Richardson

by | Apr 13, 2026 | monday morning eye candy

“Matthew Richardson uses collage and assemblage and works in clay, paper, paint and pixels. He is interested in the ways that objects and images survive or break down through the effects of time. He explores this by combining physical, symbolic and narrative fragments. The objects and images that emerge are like signs or relics in a half-remembered language or story. They hover between the contemporary and the archaic, and the magical and mundane. 

Matthew lives and works in Norwich. His work has been shown in both gallery and museum spaces including Transition, Outpost, New Craftsman, Kingston Museum and The Beaney. His  work in illustration includes projects with the V&A, the British Library and the Poetry Society.”