Exposition à Trois Voix — Lin Cheng
Featured Artist
ARTIST’S BIO
Lin Cheng is a UK-based interdisciplinary visual artist working across illustration, artist’s books, moving image, animation and installation. Her practice is centred on transmedia visual storytelling. She holds an MA in Visual Media and Illustration from London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, and has established a UK-based practice within an international exhibition and professional context. Her work has been exhibited across the United Kingdom, France, the United States and China, and has received sustained recognition through international art and illustration awards.
Cheng’s work engages with gender, childhood, memory and care. Combining image-making with experimental media, her projects reflect on intimate and underrepresented narratives, particularly those surrounding female identity and domestic experience. She is interested in the capacity of visual language to communicate beyond words, working through wordless artist’s books, fragmentary images, moving image and spatial installation to connect personal experience with wider collective and social concerns.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My practice is rooted in drawing and painting, which remain central to the way I construct and understand visual narratives. From this foundation, the work has expanded across artist’s books, moving image, animation, installation and experimental image sequences, forming an interdisciplinary approach in which image, material, time and space operate together. Through these different forms, I examine how visual storytelling can communicate beyond language and how personal experience can be transformed into broader reflections on gender, memory, silence and lived experience.
Within this wider interdisciplinary practice, painting and hand-based image-making have become increasingly important as material and conceptual anchors. I work with cotton paper, stitched surfaces, layered textures and other tactile materials to develop a visual language in which material choices carry emotional and narrative meaning. My process often begins with observation, memory and everyday encounters; drawings made while walking, remembering or noticing become fragments that are later reconfigured across images, books, moving-image works and installations. Through this process, intimate visual traces accumulate into narratives that remain personal while opening onto shared emotional and social experience.
My work centres on female subjectivity, childhood sensibility, domestic space and forms of experience that are often difficult to articulate directly. Whether through a wordless artist’s book, a moving-image sequence, an installation or a painted surface, I construct spaces in which vulnerability, resistance and memory can become visible without being reduced to a single narrative.
For me, art is a form of silent witnessing: a way of making visible experiences that might otherwise remain private, overlooked or unspoken. Painting, drawing, books, moving image and installation are not separate directions within my practice, but interconnected ways of working through memory, materiality and visual narrative.
