QingRan Liu

Qing Ran Liu
London
qingranliu2024@gmail.com | +44-7933983137 |
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Textile & vision art

Hand made Studio:tropijade_cottage
Based in E2 9DQ

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My artistic practice moves fluidly across textiles, movement, and the moving image—each medium offering a different way to explore how we experience time, space, and material presence. I’m particularly drawn to the subtle dialogues between body and matter, and how gestures, whether choreographed or woven, can give shape to emotional memory.

The mechanical logic of the Dubied knitting machine provides a framework—yet it’s within this structure that disorder thrives. Threads shift, colors bleed, and patterns emerge almost accidentally. This process feels less like control and more like negotiation. Printmaking, on the other hand, becomes a space for fragmentation: images are taken apart, memories dissolved, then reassembled into open-ended compositions—sometimes as installations, other times as nothing more than a lingering mood.

Much of my inspiration comes from the personal: dislocation, nostalgia, miscommunication, and shifting identity. I see textile not just as a material practice, but as a vessel for holding fragile emotional states. As memories begin to fade, I attempt to capture their afterimages—not in clarity, but in the texture of what remains. Softness, restraint, and a quiet sense of tension often guide my aesthetic.

Beyond the studio, I engage in residencies, hands-on workshops, and interdisciplinary collaborations. These experiences allow me to inhabit different cultural and environmental perspectives, enriching my approach to making. Ultimately, I want my work to become a space for exchange—a space where stories are not told, but felt, and where connection happens in the in-between. TECHNICAL


• Knit(Dubied Knitting Machine / Domestic single/double -bed Knitting Machine)(Advanced)
• Machine Embroidery(Domestic and industrial sewing equipment/Smocking Pleater / Tuft/ Lace/Cornely Moss and Chain machines/Juki Freehand/) (Intermediate)
• Digital Embroidery(CAD CAM Computer Embroidery)(Intermediate)
• Hand Embroidery(Beading )(Intermediate)
• Lampworking Glass
•Kiln Glass
• PrintHeat-Press/Digital/Mono Print(Advanced) •Dye(Acid/Direct/Reactive/Disperse/Botanical Dye)(Advanced)
• Research/Trends/Marker Research(Advanced)
• Design and Drawing Sketch, Tailored Silhouette, Hand Drawing(Advanced) Education


Tianjin University of Commerce , Major in Fashion Costume Design B.A. Aug 2018 – Sep 2022

Main Courses: Theory of Chinese and Foreign Costume History, Costume Computer Aided Design, Costume Painting Technique, Costume Pattern, Three-dimensional tailoringCostume Craftsmanship and Production, Costume Merchandise Planning, Costume Performance Choreography and Planning, and so on.

Royal College Of Art , Major in Textile M.A. Sept 2023 – OCT 2024

Textile & vision art & womenswear