Hanzhi Zhong/ Figurative Art

Hanzhi Zhong (b. 1999, China) is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in London. She holds an MA in Illustration from Kingston University, where she developed a practice that traverses illustration, printmaking, painting, sculpture, and animation. Zhong’s work draws from her deep engagement with the cyclical rhythms of nature and the ephemerality of human existence. Her visual language often blends anatomical abstraction with poetic symbolism, offering quiet reflections on mortality, transformation, and the emotional undercurrents of being.

Through a process-oriented and intuitively led practice, Hanzhi Zhong explores the fragile thresholds between the physical body and the immaterial self. Her work often features fragmented human forms, skeletal structures, and organic motifs suspended in liminal, dreamlike environments. These figures, stripped of superficial identity, become vessels for existential contemplation—touching on grief, yearning, stillness, and the search for inner truth.

Zhong sees each medium as a site for emotional translation. Her prints carry a raw, tactile presence, while her drawings and paintings resonate with a meditative stillness. At the core of her practice lies an inquiry into the nature of presence and absence, asking: What remains when the flesh disappears? What does the soul look like in silence?