Ngai Ning Yu BA (Hons) First Class


Website: www.ngaining.com

Instagram: ngaining_artist


Statement


My practice explores the notion of ‘home’, not as a fixed location but as an emotional space of belonging, where memory can be revisited through shadow. As an oil painter, I am interested in the philosophies of home as investigated through a phenomenological lens. I like to employ the motific nature of domestic landscapes and the liminality of light and space to create tangible tension, a collective aloneness reflective of the dichotomy between the inner mind and the exterior world. 

Drawing from photographs and past places I have inhabited, my figures are never directly depicted but appear as silhouettes or obscured forms, echoes of nostalgia and loss. I like to draw comparisons between memory and light: fleeting, disappearing almost as soon as it appears, yet in the moment they can trigger recollections of a past time and place. Silhouettes fade with the departing light, and the light itself holds a timeless, archival quality that contrasts the liminality of shadows. I often paint former family homes at a transitional hour, using shifting light, shadow and fragmented space to evoke instability and loss. My paintings hence become nostalgic homes for memory itself, situated between what was, what remains, and what is lost.


Biography


EDUCATION

2025 First Class Honours Fine Art Bachelors at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London

2022 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design (Specialist Art - Painting), University of the Arts London

2021 International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma, Discovery College

 

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

15 - 19 Oct 2025 - Recent Graduates Exhibition at the Affordable Art Fair, London

23 Oct - 1 Nov 2025 - Delphian Open Call Winners Exhibition at Unit 1 Gallery, London

24 Oct - 22 Nov 2025 - The Graduate Art Show at The Vanner Gallery, Salisbury

 

SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 - ‘for a lot of little reasons’ at The Axe, London

2025 - ‘Resonance’ at The Axe, London

2025 - 'Vital Void' at Tiderip Gallery, London

2025 - 'Love Me Tender' group exhibition at Lambs Tail Gallery, London

2025 - Undergraduate Degree Show at Camberwell College of the Arts, London

2025 - 'Home' group exhibition at Arbeit Gallery, London

2025 - 'Open House' group exhibition at Winns Gallery, London

2025 - 'Walls of Anubis' group exhibition at The Crypt Gallery, London

2025 - The Other Art Fair with Riot Soup at Truman Brewery, London

2025 - 'What Now' group exhibition at Lake Gallery, Southwark Park Galleries, London

2024 - ‘Renters!’ group exhibition at Safehouse 1, Peckham, London

2024 - ‘Days Bygone, Days To Come’ co-curated and co-developed group exhibition at hArtslane Gallery, New Cross, London

2024 - ‘Milk and Honey’ poetry-inspired group exhibition at Brixton Library, London

2024 - Affordable Art Fair UK with Made in Arts London at Hampstead Heath, London

2024 ‘Coalesce’ group exhibition at Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London

2024 - ‘The Essence of Being’ self-developed and curated group exhibition at 30 Millbank, London

2023 - ‘Round Table’ 「圓桌」collaboratively curated group exhibition at Belsize Community Library, London

2023 - ‘In Between What Once Was’ - co-curated group exhibition at SU gallery space, Camberwell College of the Arts, London

2023 - ‘The Space Between‘ group exhibition at TM Lighting Gallery, London

2023 - ‘A Sense Of Place’ group exhibition at Ogilvy, Southwark, London

2023 - ‘Before Now, After Then’ group exhibition at Bargehouse Gallery, Oxo Tower Wharf, Southwark, London

2020 - group exhibition of finalist artworks of Sovereign Arts Foundation Student Prize art competition at ‘Fine Art Asia’, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre

2016-2020 -  six solo exhibitions held at Art Square, Discovery Bay Pier, Hong Kong

2019 - exhibition for winning artworks of “Sincerely Me - inspired by Pan Yu Lin” art competition at Chantal Miller Gallery, Asia Society, Hong Kong

2016 - womens-only ‘Art on the Line’ group exhibition and silent auction hosted by the American Women’s Association at The Space, Hong Kong

2015 - ‘I Love’ solo art exhibition at Artland Gallery, Hong Kong

 

AWARDS

2020 - Finalist in the Sovereign Art Students Prize 

2020 - Recipient of a Visual Arts Scholarship 

2019 - First Prize winner of Asia Society’s ‘Sincerely Me - Inspired by Pan Yu Lin’ art competition

2019 - Shortlisted for the UOB ‘Art in Ink Awards’

2018 - Finalist in the Young Artists Development Fund’s  ‘Hong Kong Territory-wide Youths Painting Day’