Email: laylaxu71@gmail.com

Instagram: @laylaxu71

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Layla Xu has worked as an advertisement copywriter and marketing planner, serving clients from beverage, game, automobile, etc. She officially started learning illustration and graphic design from 2017, and is currently doing a MA course of Visual Arts: Illustration at Camberwell, University of Arts London, UK. She likes adding imagination into real life, and often gets inspirations from literature and culture of different countries and areas. She is keen on experimenting different materials and approaches to her art practice. 

 

Exhibitions: 

(unknown), 2020  <Rice Blessing>, Xhibit, London, UK

Jul -, 2020  <I Am Sitting in the Room and Imagining Death>, Walls in Online Places, Vol. 2, London, UK

Jul - , 2020  <Death and Celebration of Life>, The 7th China Illustration Biennial, Shenzhen, China

Jun -, 2020  <I Am Sitting in the Room and Imagining Death>, Open Room Art Festival, China

May, 2020 - May, 2021  <Roam in the Wild> & <As You Like It>, no-baking-aRt 'A World without End', London, UK

Jan - Feb, 2020  <Rice Blessing>, Lunar New Year 2020, Camberwell Student Gallery, London, UK

Dec, 2019 - May, 2020  <Spring Snow>, Reverie – Lacquer Painting & Illustration Exhibiton, Shanzhongqi Art Gallery, Fuzhou, China

Nov - Dec, 2019  <Rebuild the Tower of Babel>, New Camberwell Art 19/20, Camberwell Student Gallery, London, UK  

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Commission:

UAL Varsity 2020

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Awards: 

2019  Nominee Award, Student Group of The 7th China Illustration Biennial 

2019  Final Shortlist, Festive Wrap and Gift Tag Competition for Not Just A Shop, UAL 

2017  Nominee Award, Film Group of China Young Lions Competitions

2017  Special Award, Tencent Public Service Advertising Contest 

2015  Nominee Award, Public Relations Group & Graphic Design Group of China Young Lions Competitions