Chujun Hu - Contemporary Art Practitioner
Chujun Hu is a Chinese multidisciplinary artist based in London. Her practice centres on painting and extends into soft sculpture. She is currently pursuing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, following the completion of an MA in Contemporary Art Practice at the same institution.
The body has remained a continuous focus throughout Hu’s practice. Her earlier works explored desire, psychological experience, selfhood and cross-species intimacy through symbolic and semi-autobiographical imagery. These investigations have gradually developed into a broader examination of how the female body is represented, viewed and visually consumed.
In her ongoing series, Unsettled, fragmented bodily forms emerge, dissolve and reappear through layering, covering, erasure and gestural applications of acrylic paint. Her recent paintings extend these concerns through landscape, vegetation and natural forms, treating body and environment as porous and interconnected. By keeping figure, landscape and abstraction in an unstable relationship, Hu interrupts immediate recognition and draws attention to the viewer’s desire to identify and visually possess the body.