Diyou is an artist and printmaker based in London, UK, and Shaoxing, China. She has a training background in drawing, analogue darkroom printing and intaglio printing. She finished her MA Print program at Royal College of Art 2021, and is one of the recipients of Augustus Martin Award upon her graduation. She has exhibited in London and internationally. Participated exhibitions include Summer Exhibition 2022, RA, London; Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021, 2022, 2023, London; 'Booked' International Hong Kong Book Fair 2021, 2023, Hong Kong; Artists as Independent Publishers 2021 at Weserburg Museum, Bremen. 

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Diyou's works have been responding to the impermanent fact of things. Blooming flowers, water, moon, clouds and ashes are motifs in her work, which symbolise the fact of change, and other signifiers have been collected to imply impermanence. The works themselves are also referring to the temporary standpoints of herself when she found the temporary solutions and composures among the inevitable changes. Analogue darkroom printing, etching, drawing, obsolete, relatively repetitive, and time-consuming methods are used to rewrite, translate, and then represent those replicas of temporary tranquil moments to audiences.

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