Lu Yu

Lu Yu is a recent graduate of the School of Art, Colchester Institute, where she was awarded the Graduate Award Scheme 2022–2023 Prize. She now works from her studio at Cuckoo Farm Studios in Colchester. Her work is minimal and refined, with a love for the purified form of beauty itself, and it encourages audiences to investigate and experience the relationship between space and form. Working across ceramic, metal and wood, she explores the relationships between space and form, smooth and rough, man-made and nature, the infinite and reality, materiality and abstraction, and the visible and invisible. She also runs origami workshops.

Artist Statement

I am originally from China with no art background or experience but somehow I know Art is always my greatest interest and deepest compassion.

Although I appreciate classical drawings and paintings very much, the contemporary art, particularly abstract sculpture and installation fascinate me the most.

I feel I could express myself and get tremendous satisfaction by exploring and experimenting three dimension using different materials and processes.

I would say my works are strongly inspired and influenced by some Minimalistic sculptors like Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd.

I have great appreciation and love for the purified form of beauty itself. And also I am interested in exploring the relationship between the visible simplified outer form, space and the invisible inner space, emotions…