DR QI FANG COLBERT
the temporary entrance
November 2020 – October 2021
Qi Fang Colbert is an active artist, ceramist, illustrator, art tutor and independent researcher working between art practice and academic research. Qi was trained to be a practice- led PhD in Fine Art at Newcastle University, UK, after her MA and BA of Visual Design at Jiangnan University, China.
Qi’s contemporary works encompass various mediums including drawing, illustration, animation, pottery and video installations, with a focus on exploring the development and the transforming identities, misplaced individuals, experience of place in dramatic social changes and cultural dislocations globally and locally.
Qi attempts to bridge the unknown, fear and surreal of the new with the realities of a rapidly developing globalisation, cultures and communities by constructing conversations via space and image, with which she invites her audiences to challenge and explore the conventional definitions of self, memories, identity, and human nature.
Website: qifangcolbert.com
Qi is an innovator in contemporary ceramics, known for her hand-carved stoneware. Her work has been exhibited at major events including the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair 2024, Potfest, York Ceramic Fair, and Woodhorn Museum.
EXHIBITION
THE TEMPORARY ENTRANCE
October 2021
Dr. Qi Fang Colbert welcomes you into her imagined landscapes created from drawing, collage and video projection.
Her exhibition explored human-placed relationships in post-industrial environments in the North East. She questions how post-industrial urban landscapes shape the place and identity of people and what the shifting relationship between the individual and the fading industrial landscapes is.
Using ink, pencil, watercolour, sound and video projection, Fang Colbert plays with imagined shapes and forms of fragmented memories, alternative views of social transition and blurred boundaries between the present and past.
