Qian Qian
Discipline:
Multidisciplinary Artist
Location:
Buckie
ABOUT:
As a visual artist, poet, and mother, I explore the physical and spiritual transformation of the body alongside the rhetorical function of technology, through paintings and interactive installations.
I push the material boundaries of watercolor, developing a technique that allows organic erosions and intricate textures to emerge. Building on Max Ernst’s concept of ‘controlled chance,’ I embrace the interplay of chaos and precision. I prepare my works on archival boards with UV spray and acrylic varnish, making them water-resistant while preserving the luminous transparency of watercolor and achieving the rich texture and resilience of oil painting.
Transitioning from my watercolor series Portals to the Past to my oil-on-linen series The Field, I experiment with a unique technique that adapts watercolor methods to oil painting, using water-based oils and ink washes with a vivid palette. This approach carries over the fluidity and organic textural qualities of my watercolor practice, allowing similar intricate erosions to emerge in oil.
I make works of "ecomythicism," a re-envisioned ecosystem through which I examine the fluid transmigration of the body from fixed material form into energy, memory, and information. Recurrent motifs—hybrid portraits, vortexes, atoms, precise geometric structures, and symbolic imagery—appear throughout my paintings. By setting these poetically reconstructed elements against ethereal backgrounds, I disrupt perception—challenging ways of seeing and summoning states of trance, ecstasy, curiosity, reverence, awe, sublime and exile.
Balancing chaos and control, I reveal the tension between the ethereal and the tangible and weave it into a contemporary myth, tracing my own spiritual journey.


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