Hongyi Chen Wins Prize at The Graduate Art Show 2025

MA Fine Art: Photography graduate Hongyi Chen (Camberwell College of Arts, UAL) has been awarded a prize at The Graduate Art Show 2025 for her contemplative series Folds of Stillness. The work is presented as a constellation of large, medium, and small pieces (from 50 × 28 × 5 cm to 25 × 14 × 5 cm), combining UV print on acrylic and clear polyester film.

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Chen’s practice explores where inner experience and the external world meet, using light, reflection, and shadow to evoke time, emotion, and impermanence.

 

Grounded in meditation and a slow, intuitive process, Folds of Stillness treats the photographic image as spatial and architectural, influenced by artist Alex Hartley. Transparent, glass-like surfaces create boundaries that are physical yet see-through—intimate yet unreachable—inviting viewers to reflect on memory, thresholds, and how we see and feel across time.