(Photographed by Arnold Borgerth Filho, 2021)
MA Photography: The Image & Electronic Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2021.
BFA Fine Art, Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan, 2014.
Emily Yu-Chen Liang (b. 1991) was born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan. She is a documentary photographer and artist who has been intrigued by, and loves, the idiosyncratic trees that are an everyday feature of the UK's gardens and landscapes.
Her work embraces nature, time and space. Whilst studying photography at Goldsmiths University of London in the 2020s she became interested in tree photography and cyanotype. Emily's photographs celebrate the cheerfully shaggy, bristly, gigantic and weird British trees she discovered all around her. Her work explores the connotations between communities of urban trees and the evolutionary tree of life on Earth.
Recently, with the help of Libby Jones, she has been experimenting with cyanotype printmaking researching a more ecological alternative to the photographic print.
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Lately, she has attended the Silence Awareness Existence residency program at the Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland (2024). Exhibitions include ‘Sydenham Artist's Trail’, Sydenham Arts, London (2023). ‘Summer Show’(Selected), Epping Forest Visitor Centre, London (2023). ‘Art House Open Studios’(Selected), Arts Richmond, London (2023). ‘Cut, Torn & Mended’ (Selected), Spilt Milk Gallery CIC, Scotland (2023). ‘The 17th Fab PhotoMarathon’ at Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2023). 'Winter Show' (Selected), Orleans House Gallery, London (2022). ‘The 16th Fab PhotoMarathon’ at Fringe Arts Bath Festival (2022). 'FUJIFILM Gallery', Birmingham (2021), 'Floatingdots', AMP Studio, London (2021).
Publication includes ‘Cut, Torn & Mended’ Zine (Selected), Spilt Milk Gallery CIC, Scotland (2023). ‘Cats’ (Selected), DITO Publishing Studio, Roma (2022).
She was involved as a photographer 'In Lucid Dreams We Dance' EP1 at Chisenhale Art Place and EP2 at IKLECTIK (2023). She was also a graphic designer for work-in-progress reading ‘Happy Together’ at Omnibus Theatre and ‘The Other Me in the World’ at The Glitch (2022).
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Residency
2024, 02/01 - 30/01, Silence Awareness Existence residency program, Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland. @artelescreativecenter
Exhibitions
2025, 10/06 - 30/06, Xinzhuang Culture & Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan @XinzhuangCultureArtsCenter
2024, 06 - 07, New Wave Photography Award (Group Online), Taiwan @lightbox_lib
2023, 03 - 11/09, Sydenham Artist's Trail @sydenhamartiststrail
2023, 17/07 - 03/09, Epping Forest Visitor Centre @coleppingforest
2023, 15, 16, 22, 23/07, Venue 41, Art House Open Studios @artsrichmonduk
2023, 13/05 - 31/08, Cut, Torn & Mended, Spilt Milk Gallery CIC @spiltmilkgallery
2023, 26/05 - 11/06, The 17th Fab PhotoMarathon @fringeartsbath
2022, 22/12 - 08/01, Winter Show (Selected) @orleanshousegallery
2022, 12, Cats, DITO Publishing & Studio @dito.publishing
2021, 15/07 - 22/07, Floatingdots, AMP Studio @ampstudiosoldkentroad
2025, 10/06 - 30/06, Xinzhuang Culture & Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2024, New Wave Photography Award (Group Online), Light Box Library, Taiwan
2023, Sydenham Artist's Trail, Sydenham Arts, London
2023, 'Summer Show,' Epping Forest Visitor Centre, London
2023, Art House Open Studios Venue 41 (Selected), Arts Richmond, London
2023, ' Cut, Torn & Mended' (Selected, Online), Spilt Milk Gallery CIC, Scotland
2023, 'The 17th Fab PhotoMarathon’, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath
2022, ' Winter Show' (Selected), Orleans House Gallery, London
2022, 'Earth,' Exhibizone Exhibition (Group, Online), Toronto, Canada
2022, 'Extinction: Save the Planet,' Gallerium Art Exhibition (Group, Online), Canada
2022, 'The 16th Fab PhotoMarathon’, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath
2021, 'FUJIFILM Printlife Gallery', The photography show, N.E.C., Birmingham
2021, 'Floatingdots,' AMP Studio, London, United Kingdom
2014, 'Come On Babe' (Solo), Neng Sheng Xing Factory Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
2014, BA degree shows, SHIN KONG MITSUKOSHI, Tainan, Taiwan
2014, 'Dimension,' Fuxing Barn, Changhua, Taiwan
2014, Independent Study with Merit prize, Selected Piece “Come On Babe”, Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan
2014, BA degree shows (Selected), Kaohsiung Cultural Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2013, 'Come On In,' Art Center, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
Press/Selected Print Publications
2023, Cut, Torn & Mended Zine (Selected), Spilt Milk Gallery CIC, Scotland
2022, Cats, DITO Publishing & Studio, Roma, Italy
2015, Excellent Piece, “The APPortfolio Vol. 5” in the photography book, Hong Kong
Awards
2022, Certificate of Craft Seminar (Online), Taiwan
2017, Certificate of Internship, Art Taipei, Taiwan Art Gallery Association, Taipei, Taiwan
2014, Merit prize, Graduation Thesis: Come On Babe, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
2010, Ranked Number One of Drawing Competition, Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2010, The Bronze Prize of Drawing Competition, Kao Yuan University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Work C/V available on request.