Ruowei Liu 刘若惟

Ruowei Liu, born in Hulunbuir in 2004, graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art at University College London and is currently studying at the Royal College of Art. Working across painting and mixed media, she draws on a childhood shaped by grassland nomadic culture, where nature, migration, and intergenerational memory informed her understanding of time and space. Her works often begin with images of plants, water, snow, and animals, which she breaks apart, layers, and reorganizes to blur the boundaries between figuration and abstraction, body and nature.

Liu approaches painting as a physical process rather than the representation of a fixed image. The fluidity of paint, the instability of materials, bodily sensation, and immediate decisions all contribute to her work. Instead of directly depicting the grasslands or using recognizable symbols of nomadic culture, she draws on these experiences to explore the changing relationships between people and nature, contemporary life, and ancient knowledge.