Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Wowser Ng. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Wowser, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Are you happy as a creative professional? Do you sometimes wonder what it would be like to work for someone else?

It’s hard to answer, to be honest being an artist doesn’t mean you can be free. I think working as an artist is very similar to running your own company. It’s up to you to manage your time. This requires great self-control and time management skills. Being an emerging artist can take a long time to polish your work, and there can be a long and lonely time between market recognition. And it’s hard to stick it out if you’re in financial trouble. Sometimes I wonder if I could have avoided this if I had a steady job. However, the thought of drawing some of their own inner worlds persisted.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am a visual artist born in China and now living in London. I graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and the University of the Arts London. I used to work in the fashion industry and did fashion illustration and brand licensing for many brands. Later, when I was studying in London, I started to create art on a large scale. I started to share my work on Instagram, and gradually many people found my work unique and fashionable. I gradually became an artist. My current art practice focuses on pop culture, Generation Z, consumerism, and digital painting. I expand the possibilities of painting in the field of digital art and continue to develop contemporary painting with digital technology as the medium.
My work works by appropriating fashion products, and commodities. These sleek and gorgeous images depict generation Z, an era of rapid material economic development, and attempt to highlight the dangers of continuing to support materialism. When I put forward the issue of the relationship between commodities and people, the audience needs to reflect on the influence of the media on generation Z on us and question the power of the fashion/product industry endorsement. My painting combines abstract and concrete, which is a challenge to Pop art. I develop the painting practice of combining abstract and Pop. With a visual narrative to reveal the pop culture under the influence of the current society.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on NFTs. (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I still have a positive attitude toward NFT. I am currently collaborating with Makersplace and publishing a lot of NFT art. Or maybe I’m a digital artist myself. Due to its replicability, digital art has existed and developed for quite a long time, but it is still not as popular as mainstream painting, installation, and other arts. Thanks to blockchain technology, NFT can effectively ensure the uniqueness of digital art. With this technology, it can accurately find out which collectors have a certain digital artwork circulating now. Ensure the value of digital art. The emergence of various low-threshold NFT platforms, such as opensea, has given non-academic artists a chance to be discovered by the art market. However, with the emergence of AI and other artificial intelligence, there are a lot of opportunistic people. You may have found a lot of works based on AI calculation. When you watch these works, you can’t see any spirit, instead of cool and eye-catching images, you can’t leave any impression. Therefore, I think digital art is indeed a category with a very low threshold but a very high ceiling. It may be more difficult than other media to make works reveal the spirit of works like traditional art forms such as painting.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

I used to love to imagine some tough and profound artistic concepts, making my work become a kind of obscure concept art. And I often change various media, sometimes it is installation, sometimes it is video, sometimes it is oil painting. So, there are a lot of professionals and I said doing so may not impress the audience. I thought their advice was the right thing to say, and then I changed it. I began to slowly observe my life and feel my life. Discover their own growing experience and focus on a medium. I think if you’re trying to say a sentence you have to say it perfectly, if you’re constantly in the middle of a sentence and you don’t have a lot of work to do to get what you want to say, then nobody knows what you’re talking about.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.wowserng.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wowser_ng/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100074109674906
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wowser-ng-52805a234/
• Other: https://makersplace.com/marketplace/wowserng/ https://theartling.com/en/artist/wowser-ng/

Image Credits
The vanishing saviour, Limited Art Prints of 30 (Digital Painting), 2022, 70cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 485USD Prison Break, Limited Art Prints of 30 (Digital Painting), 2022, 70cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 485USD Pray for rain, Limited Art Prints of 10 (Digital Painting), 2022, 70cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 800USD Crush, Limited Art Prints of 5 (Digital Painting), 2022, 63cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 1200USD Gaze, Limited Art Prints of 15 (Digital Painting), 2022, 63cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 600USD The Great Escape, Limited Art Prints of 15 (Digital Painting), 2022, 63cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 600USD Blessing, Limited Art Prints of 15 (Digital Painting), 2022, 63cm (H) x 50cm (W) x 4cm (D), 600USD Cage of fashion-Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Zebra, Limited Art Prints of 30 (Digital Painting), 2019, 36cm (H) x 47cm (W) x 4cm (D), 485USD