LI JIARUI

Li Jiarui, born in Beijing in 1993, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, UK. She is currently a PhD student at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. She lives and works in Beijing and London. Jiarui’s creative exploration involves sculpture, printmaking, and digital art, and now uses easel painting as her main medium. For Jiarui, painting is a way of knowing and understanding the world, as well as a tool to observe the psychology and motivation of the contemporary collective subconscious. The colors in her writing touch the blanks of words, filling in the places where reason cannot reach, with vision and aesthetics. Jia Rui prefers an introspective way of thinking. Through the visual means of painting, she tries to explore the emotional state of herself and the contemporary people as a whole in a rapidly changing environment.