Chen yingjie biography

Chen Yingjie was born in 1991, Guangdong, China. Having graduated from the Raffles Design Institute in Singapore, Chen lives and works in Shunde District, Foshan City.

Chen Yingjie (aka.

Chen yingjie biography

Hua Tunan) is committed to easel painting, large-scale murals, on-site practice creation and installation, in the practice of street graffiti art, through different media, he explores the combination of traditional Chinese ink painting and Western street graffiti art, and strive to find a balance between the two contradictory and antagonistic cultural forms to break free from cultural shackles, and establish a new personal artistic language.

Chen embodies a range of surging emotions with his tactile and dynamic compositions. Abandoning the paintbrush used in traditional Chinese ink paintings, the artist utilises spontaneous body movements in his creative process and adopts splashing and spraying techniques illustrating his own interpretation of a contemporary Chinese landscape.&nb