Red hong yi paintings with basketball logo
Dipped the ball in red paint and dribbled it across the canvas.
Here's a painting of NBA superstar Yao Ming I did, with some red paint and a basketball!!
Who is Red Hong Yi?
Hong Yi grew up in Sabah on the beautiful tropical island of Borneo. One of her best friends gave her the nickname ‘Red’, because her surname sounds like the word ‘red’ in Chinese.
After graduating with a Masters of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, she took up an offer to work for Australian architecture firm HASSELL in their Shanghai office, and was completely taken with the city, with its special structures and tensions, its unique history and culture.
This inspired Hong Yi to start on creating art using local everyday materials she found in China as her medium. It was an outlet for her to express how much she felt for a place her grandparents once fled from. Hong Yi documents these projects and shares it on her social media platforms.
Known as the artist who ‘loves to paint, but not with a paintbrush’, and has worked with clients such as Hewlett Packard, Unilever, Nespresso, Esquire and Astro was invited as a presenter at the 6th and 7th EG