Shavonne Yang




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  project
    wrong vessels
    the perfect female

    oil on canvas
    illustrations
    graphic design & art publications

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Shavonne Yang is a London-based artist whose practice has moved from painting and illustration into installation, ceramics and sculptural objects. She holds degrees from Pratt Institute, Royal College of Art, and Central Saint Martins, and is co-founder of Land Wave Studio.

Her work is grounded in queer theory, cyborg feminism and speculative theory. These frameworks shape how she approaches a set of overlapping questions: how female and queer identities are produced and policed, how technology rehearses and reinforces norms around the body, and what forms of agency emerge between humans and machines. Practice, for her, is how these questions get tested rather than illustrated; each project pulls in the material it needs, whether that is clay, fabricated sculptural objects, or systems built from code and hardware.

In The Perfect Female, she constructs a fictional biotech company, AnKang Bio™, whose body implants are staged as sculptural propositions. Adopting the voice of a product designer operating within patriarchal norms, the work exposes the logic of systems that encode control as care. Wrong Vessels, developed through her ceramic practice, embeds vulva forms into hand-thrown vessels and lets cracking, warping and glaze runs remain as finished conditions. The logic by which ceramic specimens are judged acceptable or rejected shares its structure with the disciplining of women's bodies. The project is now entering a second phase in which metal and kinetic elements are introduced, extending the work from the vessel alone to the systems that hold, constrain and act upon it.
2023 - 2024 | MA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London

2021 - 2022 | Graduate Diploma in Art & Design
Royal College of Art, London

2016 – 2020 | BFA Communications Design
Pratt Institute, New York
Last Updated 24.10.31







Wrong Vessels
 An ongoing ceramic series that links the resistance of clay with women’s resistance to patriarchal control. Both the clay and women are expected to behave, to take the shape demanded of them, to perform correctly. When either refuses, the response is the same. The wrongness and failure must be fixed or destroyed. But what if the refusal is the work?



The Perfect Female
 A speculative art project staged as a fictional Chinese biotechnology corporation, AnKang Bio™, which markets body implants designed to engineer a socially compliant female body. The work uses the visual and linguistic conventions of biotech marketing as its material, asking how a body becomes legible as a product specification.




Self-portrait
Oil on canvas. 76.2 x 76.2 cm




Artist’s Diary
 This illustration publication places a first-person perspective of an artist’s experience in the art market and the process of producing pork in the slaughterhouse on facing pages. In this pairing, the artist and the carcass occupy the same position in their production lines.