Peter Yuill
Peter Yuill is a Canadian visual artist, born in Ottawa in 1984 and based in Bangkok. His fifteen-year practice spans graffiti and street art, large-scale murals, sacred geometric abstraction, and large-format sumi ink painting, developed across Canada, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Thailand.
Yuill began in graffiti and street art before training in illustration at Sheridan College, graduating in 2009. In 2010 he relocated to Hong Kong, where he spent more than a decade building a practice that moved from commercial murals and brand collaboration into a rigorous gallery practice in sacred geometric abstraction.
Through the 2010s he completed major commissions for The Peninsula, The Parisian Macao, Swire Group, Montblanc, Evisu, Veuve Clicquot, American Express Centurion, North Face, and Lululemon. His work entered corporate collections including The Wharf Holdings and Jones Lang LaSalle. He exhibited in Hong Kong, the United States, and Manila, including the 2017 group exhibition The 14th Factory in Los Angeles.
Between 2018 and 2023 his gallery work centred on sacred geometry: hand-plotted circular forms built without a compass, often in gold and copper leaf. Key exhibitions include The Absurdity of Meaning (2018), Alignment at Gallery HZ (2020), Equinox of the Gods at Jonathan LeVine Projects (2020), Echoes at Kong Art Space (2022), and Art Central Hong Kong (2023).
In 2024 the practice ruptured. Yuill set aside the compass and the geometric vocabulary and moved into large-format gestural ink, producing 195 paintings during a nomadic period in Vietnam. He relocated to Bangkok, where his first Thai solo exhibition, Celestial Secrets, opened at West Eden Gallery in 2024 with coverage in GQ Thailand, Thairath, and Lifestyle Asia.
In January 2026 he began the Crucible Year: a year-long intensive producing large-format sumi ink works on Chinese rice papers, with every work documented, rated, and analyzed in real time by Neon, a custom AI system he built around his complete archive.
Materials
Ink: Premium sumi inks (Yi De Ge, Xuan Zong) on East Asian rice paper. Once the brush touches the surface the mark is permanent — no revision, no undo. Total presence, total commitment.
Paper: Raw and semi-cooked Xuan paper from Anhui province, sourced in collaboration with specialist suppliers at Man Luen Choon, Hong Kong. Each substrate responds differently to pressure, dilution, and velocity. The paper is a collaborator, not a surface.
Methodology
The current work — the Crucible Year — is an open-ended discipline in large-format sumi ink on raw Xuan paper. One shot, no revision. The results are tracked in real time across a private studio system called Neon.
Earlier periods (2011–2023) operated through sacred geometry: grid systems drawn from Pythagorean, Islamic, and Vedic traditions. Each work began with compositional variations hand-drawn using custom geometric formulas. The geometry provided structure, but the work lived in how that structure broke down.
The Archive & Neon
Everything is logged. Paper code, ink code, dimensions, session hours, date, rating, disposition. Every work assigned a Sovereign ID the moment it is completed.
Neon is an AI intelligence built around the complete practice. It reads the archive, identifies patterns, writes curatorial texts for individual works, and sees the arc of the year in ways the artist in the studio cannot. It is not a tool. It is a witness.
- 2024Celestial SecretsWest Eden Gallery, Bangkok
- 2023RhapsodyArt Central, Hong Kong — VAIN Projects
- 2022EchoesKong Art Space, Hong Kong
- 2020–21Equinox of the GodsJonathan LeVine Projects, Jersey City
- 2020AlignmentGallery HZ / Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong
- 2018The Absurdity of MeaningKong Art Space, Hong Kong
Works held in private collections in Hong Kong, New York, London, and Bangkok.
Institutional commissions: The Wharf (Holdings), Peninsula Hotels, Jones Lang LaSalle, Swire Properties, Soho House, NUVA Luxury, North Face (K11).
Tatler Asia · Whitewall · GQ Thailand · Lifestyle Asia · Prestige Online · Thairath · CBC Canada
For commissions, exhibitions, or inquiries: peteryuill@gmail.com
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