Born in Shenzhen in 2000 and raised in Hong Kong, Hongrui (Henry) Liu moved to London in 2016 to pursue a career in the arts. In 2021, he enrolled in the Fine Art program at Central Saint Martins, where he experimented with essay films on existentialist theory, exploring Heidegger and Sartre’s ideas alongside sound art, drawing, and painting. Following this period of experimentation. He transitioned to the Contemporary Art Practice (MA) program at the Royal College of Art, developing a more methodical approach anchoring on materiality and representation. During this time, he experimented with animation and produced multiple digital drawings and paintings that engage the dangers and possibilities of advancing technology. Over the past two years, Liu’s focus has shifted toward painting—a site where philosophy, expression, and materiality converge.
Liu’s painting practice is deeply personal, yet deliberately open to broader human resonances. He believes in the shared power of intimacy and originality: by drawing on his own lived experiences, he taps into emotions and memories that echo through collective consciousness. Painting thus becomes a mode of transforming individual reveries into communal points of reflection, weaving elements of Eastern aesthetics and cultural memory with Western techniques. Each layer of paint resonates with the accumulation of both personal histories and collective narratives, suggesting that memories never exist in isolation but rather circulate within wider social and cultural frameworks.
For Liu, painting is both an existential gesture and a philosophical process—a catharsis that channels accumulated impressions, whether pictorial or sensorial, from dreamlike states into tangible form. The construction of each work mirrors the layering of memory: images emerge and recede, shaped by time, reflection, and lived experience. In this interplay of light and color, the poetic emerges from the everyday, revealing subtleties that might otherwise remain hidden. The result is a visual field where intimate recollections coalesce with shared cultural echoes—an invitation to pause, remember, and perhaps even rediscover common ground.
Ultimately, Liu’s practice aims to heal, to foster aesthetic positivity, and to offer a moment of contemplative calm in a society often governed by accelerated production and capital forces. By linking personal memory with collective experience, his paintings strive to create a space where viewers can connect with their own interior landscapes. In this ongoing dialogue between self, culture, and community, Liu continues to expand the possibilities of painting as a conduit for both personal and collective memory—an art form that resonates across boundaries and speaks to the shared human condition.
2000年出生於深圳，在香港長大，劉泓睿（Henry Liu）於2016年移居倫敦，追求藝術事業。2021年，他進入中央聖馬丁藝術學院（Central Saint Martins）攻讀純藝術專業，在此期間，他透過實驗性影像探討存在主義理論，將海德格爾與薩特的思想融入聲音藝術、繪畫和素描之中。經過一段時間的探索，他轉入皇家藝術學院（Royal College of Art）當代藝術實踐（MA）課程，在此基礎上發展出更為系統化的方法，並將關注點聚焦於物質性與再現之間的關係。在這段時期，他嘗試動畫創作，並製作多幅數位繪畫與數位畫作，探討科技進步所帶來的風險與可能性。
過去兩年來，泓睿的創作重心逐漸轉向繪畫——一個哲學、表達與物質性交匯的場域。他的繪畫實踐既具有深刻的個人性，同時也有意向更廣泛的人類情感開放。他堅信親密性與原創性的共鳴力量：透過自身的生命經驗，他挖掘那些能夠在集體意識中產生共鳴的情感與記憶。因此，繪畫成為一種將個人夢境轉化為公共反思的方式，在東方美學與文化記憶的基礎上融合西方技法，每一層筆觸都承載著個人歷史與集體敘事的積累，暗示著記憶從未孤立存在，而是在更廣泛的社會與文化框架中不斷流轉。
對泓睿而言，繪畫既是一種存在的姿態，也是一種哲學性的過程——它是一種情感的宣洩，將積累的視覺與感官印象從夢境般的狀態轉化為具象的形態。每一幅作品的構建猶如記憶的層層堆疊：影像時隱時現，在時間、反思與生命經驗的推移中被塑造。在光與色彩的交錯之間，日常中的詩意悄然顯現，揭示出那些或許原本隱而不見的微妙細節。最終，他的畫面構成了一個視覺場域，在此，個人回憶與集體文化回聲交織，邀請觀者停下腳步，回憶，甚至重新發現共同的情感基礎。
泓睿的藝術實踐旨在療癒，營造美學上的正向能量，並在這個被加速生產與資本力量所驅動的社會中提供一刻沉思的寧靜。通過個人記憶與集體經驗的聯繫，他的繪畫努力創造一個讓觀者能夠與自身內心世界相連的空間。在這場關於自我、文化與社群的持續對話中，他不斷拓展繪畫的可能性，使其成為個人與集體記憶的載體——一種跨越邊界、直抵人類共同情感的藝術形式。
Selected exhibitions
spndrft @ Artsect Gallery, London (2021)
I Spoke to Them @ Safehouse 1, London (2021)
Dialogue with Aeolus (Film Screening) @ International Curators Forum, Diaspora Pavilion 2, London, (2022)
CAP x Tate Modern Lates @ Tate Modern, London (2023)
Art Composition 藝構, Bravo Arts, Shenzhen, China (2023)
Ephmeral Radicals, Greatorex Street, London, UK. 2024
Past Performances
Tonal @ Animato Audio, Hong Kong (2020)
Contact @ Dyson Building, RCA, London (2022)
Recombinator @ Staffordshire St Gallery, London (2023)