TABULA RASA
London, Beijing
Xiao Hanqiu (b.1986 in Beijing, China) is a painter and a poet. Xiao’s paintings on canvas juxtapose objects in situations that conjure the ethereal magic and intensity of being. Her paintings operate like her poems: linear narrative is rejected in favour of open questions that reflect on the complexity, ineffability, and inconstancy of experience.
Highlights of her exhibitions include: NADA Miami (Upcoming, 2023); Becoming Creature - The Chthonics, the Statue and Man, Tabula Rasa (group, London, 2022); Love stories and horror stories, Lyles and King (solo, New York, 2022); LISTE Art Fair Basel 2021, Tabula Rasa Gallery (dual solo, Basel, 2021); Honey, Bee, Tabula Rasa Gallery, (solo, London, 2021); Skating Through the Gallery with Tricksy Snakes,Tabula Rasa Gallery, (solo, Beijing, 2018); That’s Quite Something, Canton Gallery, (solo, Guangzhou, 2018); and Self-portrait, Tabula Rasa Gallery (solo, Beijing, 2016).
She has published four poem collections: Losing Everything is Beautiful (2022), A Dream Comes True (2019), Three Minutes to Midnight Flower Thief (2018), and Four Hearts (2015).
Xiao received her MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011, and BA Fine Art from Leeds University in 2008.
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Xiao Hanqiu, Elephant, 2022
Oil on Board,
50 x 40 cm
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Xiao Hanqiu, A Small Statue of Yongning Temple, 2022
Oil on Board,
40 x 30 cm
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London, Beijing
Xiao Hanqiu (b.1986 in Beijing, China) is a painter and a poet. Xiao’s paintings on canvas juxtapose objects in situations that conjure the ethereal magic and intensity of being. Her paintings operate like her poems: linear narrative is rejected in favour of open questions that reflect on the complexity, ineffability, and inconstancy of experience.
Highlights of her exhibitions include: NADA Miami (Upcoming, 2023); Becoming Creature - The Chthonics, the Statue and Man, Tabula Rasa (group, London, 2022); Love stories and horror stories, Lyles and King (solo, New York, 2022); LISTE Art Fair Basel 2021, Tabula Rasa Gallery (dual solo, Basel, 2021); Honey, Bee, Tabula Rasa Gallery, (solo, London, 2021); Skating Through the Gallery with Tricksy Snakes,Tabula Rasa Gallery, (solo, Beijing, 2018); That’s Quite Something, Canton Gallery, (solo, Guangzhou, 2018); and Self-portrait, Tabula Rasa Gallery (solo, Beijing, 2016).
She has published four poem collections: Losing Everything is Beautiful (2022), A Dream Comes True (2019), Three Minutes to Midnight Flower Thief (2018), and Four Hearts (2015).
Xiao received her MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2011, and BA Fine Art from Leeds University in 2008.
Xiao Hanqiu, Elephant, 2022
Oil on Board,
50 x 40 cm
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Xiao Hanqiu, A Small Statue of Yongning Temple, 2022
Oil on Board,
40 x 30 cm
Enquire