Qiuxiang Liu (Rainy Tong) is a painter (b. China 1986) based in London, who graduated from the Royal College of Art, Painting (MA) this summer. Rainy held a solo exhibition, While Repeating I Love You, Nothing Will Die!, in July 2022 in China. She has participated in a range of residencies and group exhibitions.

Rainy’s work is centered on the female body and spans painting, sculpture, installation, performance and poetry. Her practice explores the themes of beauty, gender and sexuality.

Her current series draws inspiration from the act of blossoming, establishing a “Desirescape” by constructing the female body in poetic, erotic, mystery and dangerous dynamic ways-delving into the rupture and decay embedded within it. By exploring the body itself, Rainy, as a Chinese woman born and raised in a culture where patriarchy has been deeply rooted for thousands of years, challenges traditional social norms, seeking to liberate the female body from its fixed position in history and mainstream culture.

The bodies in Rainy's works are entangled in ambitious lines, wild drips, and explosive brushstrokes. They are faceless, boneless, and amorphous—presenting love and desire, rapture and rupture, constructing cross-cultural narratives of beauty and gender fluidity, making the invisible visible.

Rainy’s work is moving toward greater abstraction and material exploration. She is experimenting by incorporating natural processes, using apples painted with abstract female bodies as materials that slowly rot, collapse, and bleed into raw canvas. Their decay animates the painting, revealing the desire and rupture beneath these bodies. In future works, she plans to extend this approach to all kinds of fruits, allowing them to drive her evolving practice.