Xinyue Liu
Xinyue Liu
- Research Fellow
- Job Title
- Research Fellow
- School or Academic Area
- Interdisciplinary Research
- X.Liu@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Altyre Estate, Forres IV36 2SH
Biography
Xinyue Liu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a permanent Research Fellowship at the Rural Lab, contributing to a portfolio in regenerative creative practice across Scotland's Highlands and Islands.
Her research focuses on the intersection between contemporary visual culture and ecological grief. Her motivation lies in reframing grief as a resource for sustained ecological remembrance.
She has previously conducted fieldwork at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, investigating the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphins and the ongoing conservation of finless porpoises. At GSA, she continues to work with cetacean species. She is seeking to understand how art can resurface ecological memories along Scottish coastal landscapes.
Liu holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University and a DPhil in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, supported in full by the Clarendon Scholarship.
Personal website: www.liuxinyue.com
Research Interests
Ghost species, ecological grief, speculative future, cetaceans, interspecies ethics, visual anthropology, contemporary dance
Latest Additions
- Liu, Xinyue (2026) Towards a Cinema of Ecological Grief. In: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes. Environment and Society Book Series . Bloomsbury.
- Liu, Xinyue and Waite, Jason, eds. (2024) Ecological Grief. Art Review Oxford, Oxford, UK.
- Liu, Xinyue (2024) Future Collective of Our Past Sorrows. Dolphin Gallery, St John's College, University of Oxford, June 1st, 2024
- Liu, Xinyue (2023) Sightings. e-flux, 141. ISSN 2164-1625
- Liu, Xinyue (2023) Reflections on Coral Grief. Anthroposphere: The Oxford Climate Review (IX).
- Liu, Xinyue (2023) The Weight of a Bird: Review of the Migrant Ecologies Project. Visual Anthropology Review, 39 (2). pp. 440-446. ISSN 1548-7458
- Liu, Xinyue, Woods, Meagan, Cohen, Nancy, Leerink, Casper, Ghamsari-Esfahani, Kourosh and Sum, Amanda (2023) Once She Dries. Taiwan, 31 March 2024
- Liu, Xinyue (2022) In Defence of Your Broken Rebellion: On Handke’s Kaspar as Film Characters in Happy as Lazzaro and Clara Sola. Comparative Media Arts, 11.

