Arthur Yu

Swords, Dancing
2025

A Riso-printed publication that celebrates the puckish performance of the Sword Dance as it redefines itself through the last half-century.

The 20 movements, in 20 drawings, draws from outlandish Wu-Xia (Martial Warrior) Films of the 80s, cool-headed VHS Master-classes of the sword from the 90s, to the melodramatic stagings of the dance in modern reality television. The other half, are composed of sketches made watching the class being taught at the Goldsmiths Confucius Institute.

Photo: Syed Murshed

A Catfish
2024

Part of a playground of Instruments,
this catfish is an amalgamation of two things Thai: The Ranat-ek, a ferociously-played xylophone; and the beloved, contentious activity of temple Catfish feeding.

I Dare You
2024

A sword-dancing
spin-off card for those duelling times.

Cricket Insider/Cricket Outsider
2024

A double-sided book of Oil Pastel drawings and journal entries made in two cricket pitches in the summer past: the Kia Oval from the outside, and South Hampstead Cricket Club from the inside.

In The Marshes
2022
A3

A fickle, flurescent map of the Walthamstow Marshes. Only signage are words and pictures recorded on a small notebook whilst hurriedly walking.

Paul Pruning
2023

Tomato Carrying Thing
2023

An attempt to process the wave of grief and destruction in Gaza through the funnel of a story: a boy’s remembrance of what was in his lunch-box, forgotten outside overnight in a storm.

Still Life at the Pea Cannery
2024

A dream of the production of green dots.

Jahangir Cash & Carry
2023

A scene from a stop motion film animated with sheets of baking paper, in which a Caledonian Road Corner Shop owner dreams himself back to the Mughal Empire.

Chiangmai Economic Insect Centre
2024

Oil Pastel Drawings in and around the “Agricultural Technology Promotion Center on Economic Insects,” a park and research instituion at the foot of the Suthep Mountain. A sanctuary to Chan Rong (stingless) Bees, and a big shed of crickets.