Qianyi ZHU/ Silenced

Qianyi Zhu is an abstract artist working primarily in painting and etching, as well as pastel and mixed media on paper. Currently based in Glasgow, she is soon to graduate from the Glasgow School of Art. Her practice is grounded in a quiet exploration of inner landscapes, where remembered fragments of nature – trees, grasses, rivers, lakes, fields and urban edges – are revisited not as static images, but as shifting emotional states. Qianyi’s recent work examines the recurring pull of certain places and sensations, tracing how memory is never fixed, but continuously reinterpreted through time. She engages with repetition – not only as a visual motif, but as a way of navigating the distance between feeling and form. In her process, one site or image might be approached through multiple gestures, mediums, or layers, each iteration dissolving and reforming with subtle variation.