This Chinese artist creates animals and mushroom-headed figures out of wool felt

Yin Yue's current exhibition at an art centre in Beijing features mushroom-headed figures sitting on chairs, as if posing for a family portrait. Photo: Instagram/YinYue_Duzii

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 onto 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.