Christopher GeAbout

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Thank you for visiting my online portfolio. Here, you will find a collection of my work—paintings, video, and installations—all shaped by my personal explorations of identity, displacement, and the transformative power of vulnerability. I invite you to step into these spaces I create, where each piece offers a reflection of our shared emotions.


2021-2022 :  University of the Arts London - Camberwell Painting Foundation 

2022-2025 :  University of the Arts London - Central Saint Martins (BA) Fine Art

2025-2026 :  Royal College of Art  (MA) Comtemporary Art Practice 




Contact: Chrisge279@gmail.com





My creative journey began at age 15 when I started to experience the diaspora and found myself searching for transcendence through art. I was captivated by the sublime, the intersection of spirituality and cultural heritage, and the questions that arise when identity is fluid or in flux. Over time, my work evolved to grapple more directly with themes of home, displacement, and world around us.

“Drops of Water 2024                                                                 


The inspiration for the project comes from my

understanding of the relationship between

nature and water, as well as my understanding

of my current identity and practice. Water is the most

important element of life; it also has a more

personal connection to my life.



To The Main Page

  “The Concrete Monolith”
This project explores the rapid urban transformation in China, catalyzed by the implementation of reform and opening-up policies. These policies have reshaped the nation’s economic, social, and architectural landscapes, resulting in the swift redevelopment of cities like Beijing and eventually extending into smaller, lesser-known areas. Growing up in Jingmen, a five-line city in Hubei, China, before moving to the UK in 2017, I have witnessed firsthand the dramatic shifts in my hometown over the past decade. Each time I return, I find that the city continues to develop, erasing the landscapes and memories I once held dear, leaving me feeling disconnected. Through this project, I will explore critical questions: What have we sacrificed for this rapid development? What cultural memories and personal histories have been erased? While urban prosperity grows, it often comes at the cost of losing ancestral lands and familiar communities—places once regarded as home, now replaced by financial gain and modernization. Using a range of mediums, I will challenge ideologies surrounding ownership, privacy, identity, and the evolving definitions of home in the context of urban transformation and diaspora

Shapes I Call Home 2025Resin Paintings
During my engagement with the Concrete Monolith and Drops of Water project, I began examining land policy and ownership in my home country, China, combined with elements of diasporic identity and vulnerability, only to discover a host of interwoven elements that collectively define how our lives and realities unfold. This investigation gradually revealed that vulnerability, rather than signifying mere frailty, can serve as a profound force that underpins our day-to-day existence. Indeed, it is this very notion of susceptibility that continuously shapes our identities, memories, and shared experiences.


Subsequently, my reflections have triggered a series of critical questions that transcend the scope of a single project: What can genuinely be deemed indestructible—or, in more philosophical terms, immortal? How do we conceptualize “timelessness” when grappling with the mutable nature of property and ownership? What role does the passage of time play in shifting the materiality and functionality of the objects around us? Furthermore, when the materials we once relied upon morph into something unrecognizable, what remnants—physical or intangible—linger to inform our understanding of self and place?


These inquiries underscore the fragility and transience woven into our social, cultural, and physical environments. By confronting the dissolution of memory triggers from the past, we can begin to grasp the residual forms, ideas, and structures that persist. In exploring these threads, I seek to unravel how the interplay of time, memory, and material transitions shapes both individual perception and collective consciousness, urging us to probe further into the ontological essence of reality itself.

Shape I Call Home 2025Resin Bricks Installation

Resin Bricks 2025The place I knew 
slips past my fingers
smooth as silk
rough as brick.

City walls stacked higher
built by hands that never 
met mine
streets grown strange
tangled like memory
unmapped,remade.

I,pulled from my own clay
drift through these 
buildings
like a ghost through walls
one room echoing another
none I reconise

The mountain’s shape-nowsteel.
the river's path-cut glass
and the words of my tongue
bitter as borrowed names

They call this progress:
white-washed temples,
painted roadsa city built for someone
I will never meet

And yet my roots wander
quiet,searching 
beneath concrete slabs
to touch what remains
of home
that silent ache
unseen but growing

Other Paintings