Jake YANG

Jake Yang is an emerging artist born in Adelaide, Kaurna Land and currently practicing at Floating Goose Studios inc.  

Yang’s practice explores various disciplines, notably oil painting, sculpture, drawing and photography.  

His practice is driven by the continual exploration of queer and youth culture in contemporary society, integrated with strong influence from his conservative traditional Chinese culture. Yang challenges the normative assumptions around identity through his exploration of existing within in three very different cultures at once (Chinese, Australian and queer cultures). His practice explores the evolving cross-section within himself. 

Yang explores contemporary ways of painting, through formal elements, subject matter and celebrating safe spaces through figures in nature. He explores key themes of intimacy, privacy, freedom, and rebellion in his practice.