Xinyue Liu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a permanent Research Fellowship at the Rural Lab, contributing to an expansive portfolio in regenerative creative practice across Scotland's Highlands and Islands.

Her research focuses on the intersection between contemporary visual culture and ecological grief, which she understands as the premature displacement from earthly environments. She is particularly motivated in reframing grief as a resource for sustained ecological remembrance.

At GSA, she continues to work with the ghostly, namely, near-extinct species and landscapes that disappear in spectral ways. Previously, she conducted fieldwork at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to investigate the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphins and the ongoing conservation of finless porpoises. Her driving question is how speculative art can resurface connections with lost memories and species from a particular landscape.

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