My practice centres on the female figure and her everyday encounters. Tight framing, like diary notes, shapes how I approach the image, carrying a sense of privacy rooted in everyday life. My work reflects on female identity, the body and desire, intimacy and absence.In this context, the body is not simply a figure to be seen, but a psychological and relational space shaped by experience, memory and daily rituals. The work sits in conversation with painterly traditions that understand the body as emotional terrain.

Xingxin Hu (b. 1988, Hunan, China) is a London-based painter. She receivedan MA in Fine Art: Painting from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, in 2023,following a Bachelor of Law from the Communication University of China.Her work has been exhibited internationally in London, Los Angeles, NewYork, Shanghai, Beijing, Amsterdam and Austin, with recent exhibitions includ-ing Workplace, Purist Gallery, Incubator & MAMA, Vivienne Roberts Projects,Twilight Contemporary and Mey Gallery. She was a Studio West resident in2025–2026 and has been a finalist for the Prisma Art Prize, shortlisted for TheTagli Mentorship Award and Studio West’s NOW Introducing Art Prize, andlonglisted for the John Moores Painting Prize 2023