WOWSER NG is a China-born, London-based visual artist. He graduated from University of the Arts London with a master’s degree and also received a letter of recommendation from Steve Brodner in 2019. Wowser is known for his digital paintings, in which bright colors, and fashionable products, Asian queers have developed a unique painting language. Defining his practice as a challenge to pop culture, he appropriates fashion products to form unique visual narratives to explore Gen Z, media influence, and materialism.
Wowser designs fashion illustrations for many brands, including Harper's bazaar, YSL, L ’Oreal Paris, and Chery Automobile, and co-designs artwork Mirror Garden with Florentia Village in 2021. He exhibits globally, including Shanghai Exhibition Center, Beijing 798 Art District, Makersplace, London Lighthouse Gallery, and Central Saint Martins Museum. His works are collected by Central Saint Martins Museum and collectors in Shanghai, Wuhan, Tokyo, and London. His artworks are featured in Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Aesthetica Magazine,Gulf Stream Magazine, AL-TIBA9 Art Magazine, and Makersplace Magazine.
In 2023, he was selected into the Contemporary Art Collector’s Emerging Artists Program and will have a residency at Swatch Art Peace Hotel. His artworks are selected for the 5th Fida Awards Finalists, and 27th annual No Dead Artist.
Artist Statement
"Fast," "hype," and "packaging," brings extravagant material consumption, as well as symbolic business culture, which makes the power of the individual irresist the tide swept. Therefore, it easily leads the public to succumb to quick and temporary popularity.
The existence of pop culture further defines the commodity's connotation as anti-art, making the commodity and commerce a symbol of overturning high spirits attacking traditional art.
My work functions by appropriating fashion products, and commodities. These sleek and gorgeous images depict generation Z, an era of rapid material economic development, and attempt to highlight the dangers of continuing to support materialism. When I put forward the issue of the relationship between commodities and people, the audience needs to reflect on the influence of the media in generation Z on us and question the power of the fashion/product industry endorsement. My painting combines abstract and figurative, which is a challenge to Pop art. I develop the painting practice of combining abstract and Pop. With a visual narrative to reveal the pop culture under the influence of the current society.
