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Using a long needle, Chinese artist Yin Yue diligently pokes a piece of wool onto a pink-purple elephant made out of wool felt in her studio in Beijing.
She stumbled into wool felt art about a decade ago, and has turned it into a career. Her current exhibition at an art centre in Beijing features mushroom-headed figures sitting on chairs, as if posing for a family portrait.
“I came across pictures about wool felt art online by chance,” the 31-year-old Yin said. “I was very interested in this kind of material, so I did some research and started to try to make something.
“At first it was just a little hobby. I wouldn’t have thought that I would do it as a profession.”
The elephant, which is the size of a small child and depicted in a fetal position, has a special meaning for her. She began working on it while pregnant with her son, who is now five months old.

“When I was making this piece, every time I held it, I would imagine what my baby in my belly would look like,” she said. “It felt like the piece was growing together with the baby. In my imagination, they have some connections.”
That sense of family came through in her artwork at the Beijing exhibition, visitors said. One featured a small mushroom-headed family and another a life-size mushroom-headed adult and child. The exhibition opened in April and runs until September.
“When [I saw them], a sense of warmth came over me,” college student Shi Wenjie said when she visited the exhibition. “This set of figures looks like a mother and her daughter.


“They are all in comfortable clothing with gentle gestures, giving people a feeling of being at home.”
Yin first gained recognition by posting her works online, and has been part of nine exhibitions in China and Japan since 2012, including three solo shows.
Some of her works are sold in galleries and others to individual buyers, she said.


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Yin Yue has made a career out of wool felt art after finding out about it online by chance
She is exhibiting her work at an exhibition in Beijing



Yin Yue, who has made a career out of wool felt art after finding out about it online by chance, is exhibiting her work at an exhibition in Beijing.


Chinese artist uses wool felt to create animals and mushroom-headed figures

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Yin Yue has made a career out of wool felt art after finding out about it online by chance

She is exhibiting her work at an exhibition in Beijing