Time Shapes is a group exhibition featuring the work of Wei Zhen and Lv Xiaoshuai, the two recent Fine Art graduates selected for the inaugural residency of the Van Gogh House, London. Wei Zhen graduated from the oil painting department of Sichuan University and Lv Xiaoshuai from Southwest Minzu University sculpture department. This is their first exhibition in the UK. The residency has been supported by the Royal Drawing School and included two weeks in Dumfries House, Scotland.

During their residency in London and Scotland, the artists created works strongly inspired by the study of Western landscapes. Mudlarking – the act of unearthing objects buried in the mud and sand – along the banks of the Thames, they found a large quantity of shells, ceramic tiles and other artefacts eroded by the passage of time and water. The large watercolours by Wei Zhen represent shapes of consumed rocks, unveiling the dynamic reflection of the waters on the river’s soil. Lv Xiaoshuai’s clay sculptures play with the porosity of the material and the cracks it develops while drying and setting.