Li Yuan-chia was a Chinese artist, poet and curator. He incorporated installations, works and photography into his art, and was one of a small number of artists of Chinese background active in the UK during his lifetime. Li Yuan-chia was born in Guangxi, China and was educated in Taiwan from 1949. He was one of the Ton Fan group (東方畫會) that formed in Taiwan by 1956, also known as Orient Movement or Dongfang Huahui. Li was one of a number of students of Li Chung-sheng (李仲生, Pinyin Li Zhongsheng) in Ton Fan, who collectively became known as the 'Eight Great Outlaws'. The group exhibited in 1957 at the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil. In Taipei in November 1957 they held a collective exhibition, including works by Spanish painters obtained by Hsiao Chin. Li spent time in Italy, in Bologna and Milan; he was a founder of the Punto group, rejoining Hsiao Chin, and was resident in Bologna in 1965. Li moved to London in 1965 where he exhibited with David Medalla and later at the Lisson Gallery. He participated in the 1966 Signals 3 + 1 exhibition, organised by Paul Keeler and Anthony de Kedrel, with Hsiao Chin, Ho Kan, and Pia Pizzo. In 1968 Li moved to the area of Brampton (now in Cumbria) in North West England. After two years residence near Lanercost, he purchased a derelict farmhouse at Banks on Hadrian's Wall from the artist Winifred Nicholson. By his own efforts and with scant resources he converted the farmhouse into the LYC Museum and Art Gallery and opened it in 1972. Li Yuan-chia died of cancer in 1994.