RAINY TONG

Rainy Tong (Qiuxiang Liu) is a China-born, London-based artist. She graduated in Painting(MA) in Royal College of Art in 2025. Her multidisciplinary practice centers on the female body to explore queer identity. With painting as main practice, spanning sculpture, performance, and poetry, she questions what the female body can be, what the alternative possibilities rooted in the female body, and what the female body can become.

 

Rainy's work refers to notions of idealised body and self-portrait, sourced from her experience from everyday life and shaped with her intuition in her mindscape. Rainy draws inspiration from the emptiness and spatial rhythm of traditional Chinese ink painting from Song and Yuan Dynasties. Linked to the “idealised landscapes” in traditional Chinese ink painting, they are, in essence, self-portraits of the artist. In this sense, Rainy’s works are also her self-portraits—constructing playful-scapes in erotic, poetic, and violent ways which are drawn from her interior world.

 

Rainy currently is focus on exploring the materials of ink as her language which is an ancient materials from her culture-China associated with the historically female’s identity. The bodies in her works are entangled in ambitious lines, wild drips, and explosive brush strokes. They are faceless, boneless, and amorphous. They inhabit a space between love and intimacy, desire and danger, sexuality and identity. Through intertwined bodies, she reflects on danger, intimate, queer identity, and life itself.