Artist Yuen Fong Ling leads a performative workshop that reconfigures the notion of the traditional life drawing class, in order to question issues of identity, reflexivity, power and ownership of the gaze. Taking a photograph from the Wellcome Library, of a Chinese artist painting in his studio (by John Thomson, 1837-1921), as his starting-point, Yuen creates a life drawing class that you can join in, becoming part of the artwork, while others observe.

Yuen Fong Ling lives and works in Manchester. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and is currently undertaking a fine art PhD at the University of Lincoln. He explores the practice of 'artist as curator', by devising strategies and structures to encompass the productions of other artists (professional and amateur) into the artwork. He has staged events and exhibited across the UK and in Germany, Denmark and Australia.

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Read Yuen Fong Ling's blog
Yuen Fong Ling at Saatchi online

Image: Jonathan Purcell