About the Artist:
Photo from Lewis Chetcuti
Jasmine Su Juanyan Gardner (b.1997), is a Manchester-based artist whose work primarily focuses on binding traditional Chinese art forms with contemporary social issues predominantly through painting and paper cutting. By drawing her lived experience as an adoptee from the age of 8 months old, themes deriving from growing up in a white family, town and social circle are channelled through Chinese mythology, colour and material as a method to connect to her heritage. By pairing universally recognisable forms, imagery whilst primarily using painting and paper cutting, Jasmine hopes to open a dialogue about difficult conversations one has experienced as someone from the Global Majority in Britain.
Jasmine studied at Manchester School of Art and has obtained a BA in Fine Art and Art History and a MA by Research postgraduate degree. Notable exhibitions and achievements include commissioned site specific installations with esea contemporary (2024) and the Portico Library (2025), Manchester, a solo exhibition at Black Redstart Gallery (2025), Manchester, exhibiting artist at Mall Galleries with Swanfall, London (2025) and being shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize (2022).
Available for Workshops and Talks:
I am an experienced painting teacher with Prime Pass since February 2023 and workshop facilitator. I am keen to teach sessions which reference traditional Chinese artforms whilst encouraging one's individual artistic response.
If you are interested in my work, my story or my thesis, I am more than happy to open a dialogue, whether it be part of an exhibition, panel or informal talk, feel free to get in contact!
Fuse at Saan1, Manchester 2025
Fuse at Saan1, Manchester 2025
Living Library, Manchester Museum 2025
Brushstroke Papercutting Workshop at Manchester Museum, 2025
HappeningInMCR Life Drawing at the Portico Library, July, August and September 2024
Prime Pass painting teacher, Feb 2023 - present
Alumni Panel Talk at Manchester School of Art, April 2024
Artist discussion
with Hong Kong Cultural Community,
Saan1, Manchester
February 2023
Talk with FUSE at Colony Coworking, Manchester
March 2023
Artists Pair Up with Hong Kong Cultural Community at Saan1, Manchester
March 2023
The Face Behind the Art
From the studio
Casual Conversations Cut Deep, Manchester, 2025
girl talk <3 at Garden of Peach, 2025
Echoes at The Portico Library, 2025
Echoes at The Portico Library, 2025
your words flow like water at esea contemporary,
2024
Ste Wing's Chinatown Art Project, Manchester,
2023
Working in the Art World, Paradise Works, Salford
2023
"Before and After Family" at MilkTeaFilm's screening at PictureHouse Central London
2023
"Take your Chinese and Shove it up your ass, you Chinky Pig" in TSDAP's New Graduate 2021 Edition
2021
"Take your Chinese and Shove it up your ass, you Chinky Pig" at the Manchester Metropolitan University
2021
Exhibition and Awards:
2026
- April: Exhibiting artist and lead curator in group exhibition, Our Gaff at Saan1 , Manchester.
- March: Long List for Jacksons Art Prize
2025
- August: Exhibiting Artist in Swanfall's exhibition, Fables, Mall Galleries, The Mall, London.
- June - July: Solo Exhibition, Casual Conversations Cut Deep, at Black Redstart Gallery, Manchester.
- July: Calligraphy Paper Cutting Workshop at Saan1 with FUSE MCR, Northern Quarter, Manchester
- May - June: Mini Solo Exhibition, girl talk <3, Saan1, Northern Quarter, Manchester
- April - May: Featured Exhibiting Artist in collaboration with Saan1 and Garden of Peach, Garden of Peach, Chorlton.
- January - May: Commissioned artist for the Portico Library's exhibition Echoes: China & Hong Kong. Voicing the collection 迴音：中港迴響書藏之聲 , Manchester.
- January: Brushstroke Papercutting Workshop Facilitator and Featured Artist for Lee Kai Hung Chinese Culture Gallery's Living Library, Manchester Museum.
2024
- June-September: Commissioned Artist for esea contemporary’s summer programme From (Counter-)Archives to Activation, Northern Quarter, Manchester
- May: Featured artist in Walker Gallery's What Artists Wear short digital series.
- March-April: Exhibiting artist, Co-Producer, Co-Curator and Featuring Artist in HappeningInMCR X West Art Collective's Collaborative Exhibition Something New, Saan1, Northern Quarter, Manchester.
- February: Exhibiting artist in Arts for Our Sake’s exhibition Out Alone at Sea, Saan1, Northern Quarter, Manchester
- February: Commissioned Artist for Only Yu's Function Room, Chinatown, Manchester.
2023
- December: Obtained a MA By Research postgraduate degree, Manchester Metropolitan University
- November: Commissioned Artist for Ste Wing's Manchester Chinatown Community Art Project, Chinatown, Manchester City Centre.
- September - October: Exhibiting Artist in Short Supply's exhibition Made It: The Alumni Strikes Back , Paradise Works, Salford.
- April: Exhibiting Artist in CottonOnMCR's exhibition In Manchester, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester.
- March: Guest Speaker at FUSE's event, Ancoats, Manchester.
- March: Featured artist in Hong Kong Cultural Community's exhibition Strange Faces in the Mirror, Saan1, Northern Quarter, Manchester.
- March: Exhibiting artist in Exhibition X Arts For Our Sake's International Women's Day exhibition, Peter Street, Manchester
- February: Commissioned artist at MilkTeaFilm's event, Screening of 'Broker' , PictureHouseCentral, Piccadilly Circus, London
- January: Collaborative artist at Park Chinios’ event Year of the Rabbit: Down the Rabbit Hole, Park Chinois Restaurant Mayfair, London
2022
- November: Exhibiting artists in Arts for Our Sake's exhibition Reflections, Northern Lights, Ancoats, Manchester
- November: Exhibiting artist in De Lacey Fine Art’s exhibition Winter Show 2022 and Salford Spirit, Deansgate, Manchester
- November – Present: Exhibiting artist in Cythia Corbett Gallery’s exhibition Young Master’s Prize 2022, The Exhibitionist Hotel, South Kengsington, London
- October: Shortlisted for Young Masters Art Prize
- August: Exhibiting artist at Cotton On Manchester’s exhibition Beyond Landscapes, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
- June: Exhibiting artist and trader at Cotton On Manchester's Art All Dayer: Summer Edition art fair, Hallé St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester
- February: Exhibiting artist in The Steam Room's Year of the Tiger pop up shop, Kingsland Road, London
- January- March: Exhibiting artwork in HOME's Manchester Open Exhibition 2022, HOME, Manchester
2021
- November: Exhibiting artist and trader at Cotton On Manchester's Art All Dayer: Winter Edition art fair, Hallé St Peter's, Ancoats, Manchester
- August: Short Supply’s Castlefield Associates Award.
- August – September: Exhibiting artwork in Short Supply exhibition MADE IT 2021, Rouge Artists’ Studios CIC, and awarded the Castlefield Associates Award, Gorton, Manchester
- August: Exhibiting artist and trader at Cotton On Manchester’s Art All Dayer: Summer Edition, Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester
- July: Obtained a First Class BA Honours in Fine Art and Art History, Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy
- July: Featured artist in TSDAP’s New Graduates Catalogue: 2021 Edition.
- May: Call It Out, copy of zine contributing to Manchester School of Art’s Team Print zine library collection.
2020
- June: Exhibiting artist for Unit X's exhibition, Language Zine: Material Meaning, Manchester School of Art, Manchester
2019
- May: Exhibiting artwork in Unit X's exhibition Substance, Fairfield Social Club, Manchester
2016
- March: Exhibiting artwork in Are You Ok? Art Foundation Exhibition, Firstsite, Colchester
- July: Obtained a Merit in Art and Design Foundation Diploma, Colchester Institute, Colchester
- June: Art and Design Foundation End of Year Exhibition, Colchester
2015
- December 2015: Awarded the Sixth Form's Art History Harry Carol Award , Colchester Sixth Form, Colchester