Where does an image of the self begin and end?

Anna Xiang is a Chinese-born Australian artist based in London, currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art. Working primarily with oil paint, she explores the unstable boundaries between portraiture and abstraction, recognition and ambiguity.

Through translucent layers, gesture, softening and erasure, figures emerge and dissolve across the painted surface. Informed by ideas of impermanence, interdependence and non-duality, her paintings approach identity not as a fixed likeness, but as something continually becoming.