Swirling, Swirling
Publication
Threshold Editions has published Swirling, Swirling to accompany the exhibition Swirling, Swirling by Hang Zhang and Jun Rui Lo held at Threshold in March 2025.
It is available to purchase for £5 including postage.
This publication includes:
- Photographic documentation of the exhibition Swirling, Swirling. Photos by Sam Hutchinson.
- Two limited edition risograph prints, each signed by the artist
- A critical reflection on the exhibition by curator and researcher Sunshine Wong
- Essay by Jun Rui Lo
- Essay by Hang Zhang
Book dimensions: 20.6 x 14.5cm (just under A5)
Materials: 36 page digital print booklet and 2 risograph print inserts
Edition Size: 100
Publication date: 2025
Edited and designed by Julia McKinlay
ISBN 978-1-0684654-0-6
Swirling, Swirling has been supported by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at University of Leeds.
Threshold Editions publishes affordable sculpture editions and publications by artists working with sculpture. This brings sculpture inside the home and generates income to commission future exhibitions. All publication sales directly fund the next shows.
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About the artists:
Hang Zhang
Hang Zhang (b. Tianjin) is a Chinese artist and researcher based between London and Leeds. Her practice explores the intersections of place, beings and stigma, and focuses on social and species constructions viewed through the lens of inequality.
As a full-time immigrant/part-time migrant, a borderline woman/non-binary person, and a background straddling both working- and middle-class environments, Zhang investigates her own experiences of social alienation and that ever-familiar lost sense of belonging. Her practice often balances three critical methodologies: ethnography, field research, and fictional narrative. These methodologies artefact utopian or dystopian scapes that blend realities and imagination, encouraging audiences to re-evaluate their feelings towards the world they live in and how they fit (or don’t fit) within it.
Zhang is a practice-led PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, her project investigating the cultural images of South American camelids and how their cultural roles have evolved under colonisation and globalisation. Zhang gained a BA in Fine Art in 2021 and MA in Fine Art in 2022, from University of Leeds.
In 2023, she was awarded the British Institutional Fund by the Royal Academy of Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include: Hangover Square, (The Florence Trust, London, 2025) and Through the Party Ring (The Art House, Wakefield, 2022-2023). Recent group exhibitions include: ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, (Mall Galleries, London, 2024); Air Open, (Air Gallery, Manchester, 2024); Total Recall: Myth and Memory, (Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, 2023); NAE Open, (New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2023).
@hangzhang.art
www.hangzhang.hotglue
https://hangzhang.art/
Jun Rui Lo
Jun Rui Lo (b. Hong Kong) is an artist and curator based between Leeds and Manchester. Lo gained a BA in Fine Art from the University of Leeds in 2024.
Approaching art as an emotional response, Jun Rui Lo’s work explores identity politics and the aesthetics of ambiguity.
As a non-binary individual from Hong Kong living and working in the United Kingdom, the interrogation of queer and diasporic identity forms the foundation of Lo’s practice. Influenced by queer theory which advocates for gender and sexual non-conformity and freedom from normative tendencies, their work pursues the fluidity of identity and attempts to give tangibility to feelings of melancholy, alienation, and rootlessness.
Recent solo exhibitions include Ashes in Your Eyes (Haarlem Artspace, Derbyshire, 2025) and A Nostalgia Akin to Love (Village, Leeds, 2024). Recent two-person and group exhibitions include Moments That May Follow (Serf, Leeds, 2025), A Pocket Full of Plenty (Hypha Gallery Netil House, London, 2025), Tracing Connections (Manchester School of Art, Manchester, 2024), Welcome to the UK (Ugly Duck, London, 2024), and Sacred Play Secret Place (East Street Arts Patrick Studios, Leeds, 2024).
@ryanmoyii_
https://lojunrui.com/