Profile
Hanzi He/何韩子 (b. 2001, China) is a London-based artist working primarily in printmaking, drawing, sculpture and instalation. Her practice currently centres on indexicality—transforming artistic acts into physical evidence of occurrence. She holds a BA from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and is pursuing an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art.
Projects
Residue
Bread
Bread is bread
Edible frames
Inter-interscapes
Peeling
What you see is what you get/所见即所得
hehanzi427@gmail.com
@hebaodan.a Hanzi He/何韩子 (b. 2001, China) is an artist based in London. She received her BA in Fine Arts from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore in 2025 and is currently pursuing an MA in Print at the Royal College of Art, London.
Her practice began with an intuitive exploration of materials and forms. During her time in Singapore, she worked primarily through installation and sculpture: employing cyanotype to explore natural forms in the series What You See Is What You Get, and addressing themes of displacement and belonging in Inter-Intscapes and Peeling. She then shifted her medium to bread, creating projects including Edible Frames, Bread is Bread, and Bread, investigating materiality and the narrative potential of everyday substances.
Upon entering the Royal College of Art, the systematic training in printmaking offered her an opportunity for reflection and deeper inquiry. Through techniques like etching and lithography, she began to shift her focus from the uniqueness of individual mediums to the universal mechanisms underlying them. It was at this juncture that she became able to look back and recognize a core preoccupation that had been quietly guiding her work all along: the traces left after objects make contact, and how artistic acts might be transformed into physical evidence of occurrence.
This indexical way of thinking was not a predetermined theoretical framework, but rather a methodology that emerged organically through years of concrete, repeated acts of making. In retrospect, her early works—whether the photochemical imprints of cyanotype, the baking marks on bread, or the scars left on walls after dismantling installations—were all unconscious engagements with the motif of the "trace." Particularly in soft-ground etching, she found a core principle shared across all these practices: a kind of faithfulness without pre-established meaning, producing imprints directly from contact.
Her recent work builds precisely on this understanding, undertaking a more rigorous collection and archiving of microscopic material evidence signed by time, pressure, and chance. Her practice is not merely about preservation; it is a gentle inquiry: when art sheds the burden of grand narratives and focuses instead on the faithful custody of a single, real contact, can it more freely reach existence itself?
Exhibition
- 2025 Meal Deal, Filet Space, London, UK
- 2025 You‘ll Flutter The Dovecotes! & Don’t Judge The Pigeon‘s Nest, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- 2024 teetering, Alliance Française de Singapore, Singapore
- 2024 It‘s About Time, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
- 2023 Deciphering Realms, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore