Yike Cen
About
Yike Cen is an illustrator and animator from China. She studied animation at the China Academy of Art for her bachelor’s degree. Currently, she’s a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art in Visual Communication. Her work aims to explore different emotions and human relationships through a soft and warm visual style.
Her postgraduate final work, ‘Oyster & Hamster Cage’ explores, through metaphor, the long and painful process of self-healing for a girl after a bad sexual initiation. In this graphic novel, she uses the hamster as a metaphor for a naïve child and borrows Shakespeare’s famous line ‘The World Is Your Oyster’ as a clue to the conflict between human nature and the shackles of the mind. Through this work, she hopes to call on people to face up to the self-exploration of the body and to rethink the mode of education and family relationships under the East Asian social system.
In the future, she will continue to develop in the fields of graphic novels and picture books, as well as animation storyboards. Please feel free to contact her if you have any interest in collaboration!
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