Artist Profile - Wang Bing
Biography
Born in 1977, Bing Wang came to Scotland and studied his Masters Degree at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He now lives and works in Worcester. Bing has exhibited widely since he came to Britain, including the Royal Portrait Society Annual Exhibition and The Discerning Eye Exhibition, both at the Mall Gallery in London. He won second prize in a regional art competition in Shan Dong Province (population 20 million) in China during his final year undergraduate study.Bing has also undertaken many portrait commissions including Scottish Archaeologist Robert Broom.
Artist Statement
“It is not easy any more to be able to be ‘traditional’ in the contemporary context, but I am still conscious of the meaning of painting tradition and its needfulness in the present to engender resistance to the libidinous flex of media images. My researches into techniques, media and pigment of the Old Masters and the painstaking working procedure have led my works to a highly finished surface and a sense of timelessness." Bing Wang