Xin Harper-Little
Solo Art Exhibitions
Artist Open House Winter 2025
Full interview:
What is your connection with dance – are you also a dancer?
Xin: I have always loved dance. I did contemporary dance with Lee, and my daughter has danced with Lee for many years as well. I danced when I was young in school, and the feeling of moving with music has always lived in my body. Even now, I get tingling sensations when I watch dance performances, the emotion communicated through the body moves me deeply.
For me, there are many connections between artists and dancers. We are all dedicated to our passion; we practice daily, and through hard work and commitment we gain the freedom to create and express ourselves more fully. I may not be a dancer now, but the dancer within me is still very much alive.
It has been especially meaningful to see my daughter, who is part of SYD, and her friends bring another dimension to the exhibition. Their movement reveals new layers within the work and the space, adding a sense of life, presence, and discovery that I could never have created on my own.
Unforgiving Lines is a study of movement, vulnerability, and the human condition. In this series, Xin Harper-Little explores the body as both instrument and archive, a site where memory, emotion, and gesture intersect.
Each work unfolds through immediacy and restraint: a single brushstroke can define or dissolve, reveal or obscure. The ink’s permanence becomes a metaphor for the moments we cannot take back, the truths we carry in our muscles and breath.
Harper-Little’s figures appear caught between control and surrender, tension and release. Their fragmented forms, suspended in motion, evoke the quiet urgency of being alive, of reaching, breaking, and becoming. Through these unguarded gestures, the artist invites viewers to witness transformation not as resolution, but as process: messy, physical, and unflinchingly honest.
Unforgiving Lines is not an apology for imperfection, but an ode to it, a recognition that every mark we make, on paper or in life, is both wound and revelation.
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Upcoming solo exhibition - Feb 2026
Window Gallery at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton