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instagram: @forganlu
email: forganlu@gmail.com
b.1998, China
currently in London, UK
about
She is a painter, despite believing for years that she could become someone else, but painting proved to be the one thing that stayed. She also writes.
As Louise Gluck writes, ‘We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory’.
GAN Lu’s work explores the relationship between everyday experience, memory and imagination. Through the recomposition and arrangement of familiar scenes and dream fragments, she creates images that feel both intimate and faintly unreal. Influenced by Impressionism and Surrealism, her practice reflects on how the images encountered in daily life shape the ways in which she perceives and represents the world. By seeking a balance between observation and imagination, her work constructs a poetic space in which the subconscious and dream imagery intertwine.
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Education
2025-2026
MA Painting - Royal College of Art
2016-2020
BFA Painting - Guangzhou Academic of Fine Art
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Awards
2025
The Ali H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award - RCA UK
2020
Dayi Sketch Award - The First Edition of the School of Painting and Drawing in GAFA (Guangzhou CN)
ative Media - City University of Hong Kong