About
Jiqiang (Johnny) Wen is a creative practitioner based in London. Working as a creative and an art director across print, digital, social and film with almost a decade’s experience.
Johnny returned to academia (Royal College of Art) to refine his research methodology and independent practice. His work is driven by trying to balance the visual languages of commercial design and fine art approaches.
He is engaged with a critique of today’s society, where designers are facing competition from technology such as the evolution of AI, to provoke the public to think about how humans will construct and build new futures, beyond binaries and stereotypes.
Statement
My personal practice interests mainly focus on society culture, autoethnography, related to gender and binary theory, through observing and interviews, collecting data from social media, analysing and reflecting on my own experience and background. I take design as a means to express emotions, developing abstract visual languages, blending this with humour and sarcastic language to reveal the problems in society that exist below our eye line. With a focus on narrative to create experimental films, combining sound, environment and interaction with audiences, my work tries to explore the boundaries of visual communication.
jq.johnnywen@gmail.com