The Turning 2026. An ongoing year-long series that began on January.2026
Each month explores a single color on one piece of silk, seeking colors that reflect the feeling of each season.
I work on it every day, pouring a layer without pre-treatment or chemical fixatives and allowing the pigments to flow, diffuse, oxidize, fade, and transform over time.
Each work becomes a record of duration, change, and the agency of the material.
Natural dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm/each. RCA degree show
Each month explores a single color on one piece of silk, seeking colors that reflect the feeling of each season.
I work on it every day, pouring a layer without pre-treatment or chemical fixatives and allowing the pigments to flow, diffuse, oxidize, fade, and transform over time.
Each work becomes a record of duration, change, and the agency of the material.
Natural dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm/each. RCA degree show
The Turning— Stillness / January 2026
Carbon-based hand make ink on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
photo credit: Bowen Tang
The Turning —Tendering / February 2026
Beetroot dye on silk . Installation. 142 x 160 cm
photo credit: Bowen Tang
Beetroot dye on silk . Installation. 142 x 160 cm
photo credit: Bowen Tang
The Turning— Awakening / March 2026
Butterfly pea flower dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
Butterfly pea flower dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
The Turning— Verdant / April 2026
Spinach dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
Spinach dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
The Turning — Ripening / May 2026
Turmeric dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
Turmeric dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
The Turning — Radiance / June 2026
Very Berries tea dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
Very Berries tea dye on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
The Turning — Fullness / July 2026
Dried Guajillo pepper on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
Dried Guajillo pepper on silk. Installation. 142 x 160 cm
photo credit: Lingyi
film credit: Lingyi
film credit: Lingyi
Tea Ceremony performance at the RCA CAP Dada Ball, RCA Hangar 2026
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z2U-vMwmszatI2CgaFZG4emurWg0S09q?usp=share_lin
photo credit: Lingyi Zhang
before and after Blue Tea Ceremony performance. 2026
Butterfly pea flower tea, Vietnamese rice paper made vessels, flowers, sweets, teapot, teacup. Installation.
RCA degree show
Butterfly pea flower tea, Vietnamese rice paper made vessels, flowers, sweets, teapot, teacup. Installation.
RCA degree show
Slices & Pulses: a 9-Secong film 2026
Dancing without me 2026. 2min59sec
The Past Never Finished：
Unfolding the fabric of London. 2025 2min13sec
Tide, Time, Thames, Reknot 2026
rusted wire rope, waste textile. Installation.
Love 2025
Carbon-based ink on silk. Installation. 2025. 120 x 160 cm
My body & face 2025
Carbon-based ink and beetroot dye on silk. Installation. 120 x 60 cm
Carbon-based ink and beetroot dye on silk. Installation. 120 x 60 cm
Traditional Chinese Natural ink on Xuan paper. 34 x34 cm
(she/her)
@wenjiefeng_
Wenjie Feng (b. Kunming) is a Chinese American multimedia artist based in London, She recently completed an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the Royal College of Art.
Growing up among the mountains and rivers of Yunnan shaped her sensitivity to materials and water. Her recent practice centres on natural dyeing on silk, alongside textiles, moving image, performance, and installation. Working with handmade pigments derived from plants, tea, charcoal, vegetables, and other natural materials, she embraces collaboration rather than control, allowing time, water, light, and natural processes to shape each work.
Through this sustained practice, she explores time, space, presence, mystery, love and loss, and the relationships between humans and the natural world. Daily acts of making have become a ritual of attention, trust, and presence, reconnecting her with nature while embracing uncertainty, imperfection, impermanence, and transformation.
Influenced by Buddhist philosophy, Zen, and the contemplative discipline of the tea ceremony, Feng creates contemplative spaces through colour, translucency, and the quiet power of empty space, where words fall away and a quiet spiritual connection can emerge
CV
Education:
2025–2026 Master of Arts (MA) in Contemporary Art Practice. Royal College of Art, London, UK
2024-2025 Graduate Diploma (GD) in fine art. Royal College of Art, London, UK
1993–1994 Non-Degree Advanced Training in Fashion. Academy of Art &Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1985–1989 Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts. Southwest University School of Fine Art, Chongqing, China
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2026 – Degree Show, RCA, London, UK. Installation. The Turning
2026 – Labor，Chelsea College of Arts, UK, Moving image. Labor/Water
2026 – Storytelling, Theatreship, London, UK. Performance. CAP Patient .
2026 – Dada Ball, Hangar, London, UK. Performance. Tea Ceremony. Installation. Passing Days.
2026 - Following Fallowing, Hangar, London, UK. Installation. Love
2026 - Between Then and Now, Alexinartyland Gallery. Installation. Untitled 1
2026 – Capitude, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK. Moving image. The Past Never Finished: Unfolding the fabric of London
2025 – CAP Baret, RCA, London, UK. Performance. There is a beautiful place
Awards/Shortlists
2026 - Shortlisted, Jaguar Awards 2026, Jaguar/ Royal College of Art. UK