Xinzhi Li is an Artist from Melbourne, Australia.

Xinzhi Li’s practice is based on her childhood traumas and lived experiences. She sees herself as sensitive, fragile, chaotic, and emotional. All the past and new experiences build the core of her spirit and lead her to investigate the intricate dimension of the inner self. She explores the connection between mind and body, consciousness and unconsciousness, memories, dreams, traumas, and fantasies.

She often employs oil and watercolour as her painting medium. She contemplates the significance of consciousness and unconsciousness in the artistic process and the influence of different mediums and approaches to creation. She likes to work intuitively and share the control of the artworks with unconsciousness and those mediums. She uses paper and canvas as they are fragile, like our skin and that of human beings. The subject matters in her practice are always ‘luminous’, ‘colourful’, ‘watery’, ‘moving’, ‘intangible’ and ‘ambiguous’ as they show the boundary, the moment between moments and her chaos—the chaos of thoughts, emotion, and energy, the result of trauma and experiences. Through thinking and creating works, she starts to know and heal her inner self and find her place in the river of time.