Yuxuan Zhou
London-based illustrator, cross-disciplinary designer, and researcher.
Yuxuan Zhou explored her interest in storytelling during her Master’s Degree course in Goldsmiths, University of London. She focuses on sustainable fashion issues, but rather than having a macroscopic look at the global influence, she introduces the topic from an intimate perspective focusing on individual feelings and experiences. Through a series of explorations in podcasts, performances, writings and drawings, Yuxuan finally finds her passion for visual storytelling and starts to create comics and illustrations about fashion. She celebrates the idea of play and relentlessly explores new materials and mediums in her work, aiming to deliver each unique project with the most suitable tone.
Her adventurous spirit in illustration now meets the field of children’s publishing. Yuxuan joined Pathways into the Children’s Publishing Programme in 2023 and actively absorbs knowledge and skills about children’s books. She indulges in weaving stories about her characters while also enjoying the process of learning new knowledge through illustrating non-fiction books.
Lastly, Yuxuan is also an independent researcher focused on visual semiotics and phenomenology, her works mainly focus on the discussion of disabled body and transcultural body.
Education
Pathways to Children’s Publishing
Pop Up Projects
2023-2024
Making Book Summer School
London Centre for Book Arts
2022
MA Design Expanded Practice
Goldsmiths, University of London
2020-2021
BA Fashion
University for the Creative Arts
2017-2020
Academic Publications
On the Western myth of Takarazuka fantasy: Japanese women playing men and Westerners on stage
Achievements
Shortlist for Children's category, Penguin Cover Design Award 2024
Second Place Illustration Prize Winner, FAB Prize, 2023
Merit Award, iJungle Illustration Awards, 2023
FIDA Award Finalist, 6th & 7th FIDA Award, 2023
Winner, FIDA in Paris Poster competition, 2023
Finalist, Hiii Illustration 2022
Shortlist, FIDA SS20, 2020
Shortlist, DrawFashion Competition, 2020
Event and Exhibitions
FIDA in Paris fashion illustration, 50th Anniversary of Battle of Versailles, 2023
Northern Fashion Week Catwalk, 2022
Illustrator’s Fair, 2022-2024
South London Zine Fair, 2022
Handmade Oxford, 2022
Interviews
Featured in Creative Boom
Personal interview on GFF talent column by Graduate Fashion Week
Featured in SHOWstudio Class of 2020
Featured in British Fashion Council Graduate Preview 2020
Contact
Please drop me an email if you are interested in working with me, purchasing my artwork or zines, or anything about my projects. Thank you!
Email: [email protected]