About

Jean Huang is a Canadian artist based in London, UK. Her site-specific practice is a collaboration with nature and encompasses painting, installation, and documentation. She holds a Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Distinction) from the Royal College of Art (2021) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2024).

“My practice is an exploration of the outer landscape and how it in turn reflects the change of time, weather, and seasonality of my inner landscape. Each site-specific painting begins as an unstretched canvas carried on a hike, inviting the local ecology, landscape, and weather to directly collaborate in the process. Traces of dirt, tree bark, and rain provide evidence of the land’s agency—an intimate reciprocal relationship is formed in balancing my own marks with the initial marks left by the environment. The paintings are akin to well-travelled maps embedded with stories: dirt on the edges, marked places of significance, and wrinkles from the many times they were folded and unfolded.

Through the methods of frottage and co-creation, I depart from the artist’s gaze on landscapes by painting through touch and feeling. I draw on themes of friendship and play, inviting moments of connection with the land. Painting occurs through physical engagement with the site: body movement as gestural marks, apparent in a random boot print or a subtle tracing of how I sat on the painting to rest. Incorporating my full body into the work evokes a sense of belonging and suggests that I am as much a part of the landscape as it is of me.”

 

 

 

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