ARTIST’S BIO
Lin Cheng is an interdisciplinary artist based in Glasgow, working across illustration, animation, installation, and visual storytelling. She holds an MA in Visual Media and Illustration from the London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), and is currently developing her long-term practice in Scotland. Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Paris, Massachusetts, and East Asia, and has been shortlisted for major illustration awards including the World Illustration Awards and the Scholastic Asian Picture Book Award.
Lin’s work engages with themes of gender, childhood, memory, and care. Combining image-making with experimental media, her projects often reflect on intimate and underrepresented narratives—particularly those surrounding female identity and domestic experience. She is also deeply interested in the silent power of visual language, often creating wordless books, fragmentary illustrations, and time-based media that speak to collective emotions through personal gesture.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My artistic practice began with drawing and painting as a primary mode of expression—intimate, immediate, and deeply connected to personal perception. Over time, I expanded into a range of media, exploring animation, installation, handmade books, and experimental image sequences. This period of interdisciplinary exploration allowed me to test the boundaries of visual storytelling and the ways images can speak beyond words, particularly on themes related to gender, memory, and silence.
In recent years, I have returned to painting and hand-based image-making, not as a retreat, but as a deepening. I now work across mixed materials—cotton paper, stitched surfaces, layered textures—seeking a tactile language that reflects the emotional complexity of my subjects. My process often grows out of everyday observation: drawing while walking, remembering, or simply noticing. These visual traces form a kind of autobiographical murmuring—personal yet porous, inviting collective reflection.
My work continues to centre around the quiet terrain of female subjectivity, childhood sensibility, and domestic space. Whether in the form of a wordless book, a fragmentary sequence, or a painted surface, I aim to create spaces of resonance, where vulnerability and care become visible.
Art, for me, is a form of silent witnessing. I now embrace painting not as a singular return, but as a renewed commitment to slowness, touch, and the poetic density of visual language.
