Li Huang
Li Huang as part of Crafted Selves at St Andrews Museum, 2023. Photo by Alan Dimmick Li Huang, Sacred, 2020. Photo by Alan Dimmick Li Huang, Legacy, 2020. Photo by Alan Dimmick Li Huang as part of Crafted Selves at St Andrews Museum, 2023. Photo by Alan Dimmick Li Huang, Full Moon, 2021. Photo by Alan Dimmick
Li Huang studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and has been repeatedly selected for the Scottish Portrait Award Exhibitions. His portraits explore the relationship between the natural, the supernatural and the spiritual dimensions of portrait painting through reminiscence of his father, who has been in the other world for a long time.
His beautifully crafted paintings explore the past, the present and the impasse from a different cultural perspective.
Full Moon, 2021
Oil on canvas
Sacred, 2020
Legacy, 2020
Oil on canvas
Li Huang: The global trend, no any other country nowadays can just isolate from the others. There are always some kind of a cultural influences from each other. I’m quite happy to stay here being, or you can call me Chinese or you can, I’m quite happy if you can, if you could call me Scottish.
Biography
Li Huang researches the spiritual dimensions of portraiture painting through his work. The subjects of his work are reminiscences of his father, who has been in the other world for a long time. Through his paintings, Huang tries to explore the relationship between the natural and the supernatural, and the imprint of traditional culture that exists in people’s life and how it flows continuously through generation to generation. Huang pays particular attention to the attitude to death from the perspective of traditional Chinese philosophy, religions and folk customs, explored through a Western cultural perspective. He is continually grappling with the challenge of manging the impact of these dual cultures, balancing ideas of seen and unseen in his paintings and portraying a story rather than an instant moment.
Li Huang has a BA in Fine Art and MFA Art and Humanities from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Huang was selected for the 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018 Scottish Portrait Awards Exhibitions.