Shan Hua

Like a Loquat with its Tendons Severed

Shan Hua is a London-based digital artist and moving-image maker. Starting from observation and writing, she transforms fragments of everyday life—people, relationships, and memories—into fictional characters and fairy tale-like narratives, constructing nonlinear worlds through CGI, animation, sound, and text. Shaped by cinema, literature, and popular culture, her work moves between humour and melancholy, absurdity and intimacy, distilling everyday observations into immersive visual narratives that explore identity, loss, and life in the digital age. Shan Hua is a London-based digital artist and moving-image maker. Her work explores the relationship between fiction and reality, using metaphor and storytelling to approach emotions and experiences that are difficult to express directly. She turns observations of everyday life and memories into fictional characters and stories, using existing stories and fictional worlds as metaphors. Drawing from cinema, literature, and fashion, her work moves between the intimate and the absurd.