Liu Mengxia is an artist and illustrator based in London and Birmingham. Her practice spans illustration, animation, mural painting, and other mixed media approaches. Her work centres on emotional perception and lived experience, using image-making as a way to think through encounters with place, movement, and change.

Rather than working with fixed narratives or descriptive representation, she explores how images can carry internal states such as connection, disorientation, and transformation. Through both studio-based and site-responsive practices, she investigates the relationship between inner experience and external environments.

Her work often functions as sensory structures, inviting viewers to feel rather than decode meaning, and to engage with the complexity of contemporary lived experience.

Got a project you’d like to discuss? Get in touch at liumengxia518@gmail.com


My clients included: Bruntwood Limited, kier Property Limited, Ancestry, Grand Union Arts, Warwick Arts Centre, Ikon Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall, University of Birmingham,  Ruskin Mill Land Trust, The Philosophers’ Magazine, Martineau Gardens, ...


Photo by Anne Purkiss

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Creative Review:https://www.creativereview.co.uk/mengxia-liu-illustrator/
Design By Women:  https://designbywomxn.com/mengxia-liu/
Inkygoodness: http://inkygoodness.com/features/reportage-illustrator-liu-mengxia/
New Art West Midlands: http://newartwestmidlands.co.uk/editorial/artist-spotlight-mengxia-liu/

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Birmingham Creates: The Open, 2024
Free For All, The Art Bypass Gallery,2022
Summer Camp, Eastside Project Gallery,2022
On Tropism, GrandUnion Gallery, 2021
IKon for Artist, Ikon Gallery, 2021
Tier 1 Global Talent Visa, 2020
Merit Award(Non-commercial ), Hiii Illustration 2019, 2020
Art In Residency in Birmingham City University, Birmingham, 2019
Grand Union x BCU Graduate Residency,Birmingham,2019
New Art West Midlands x Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art,Coventry,2019
Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne, France,2019
Cometogether, London,2018
Secret 7’ , London,2018