Xinyue Liu is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She holds a permanent Research Fellowship at the Rural Lab, contributing to a portfolio in regenerative creative practice across Scotland's Highlands and Islands. Her research focuses on the intersection between contemporary visual culture and ecological grief. Her motivation lies in reframing grief as a resource for sustained ecological remembrance. She has previously conducted fieldwork at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, investigating the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphins and the ongoing conservation of finless porpoises. At GSA, she continues to work with cetacean species. She is seeking to understand how art can resurface ecological memories along Scottish coastal landscapes. Liu holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University and a DPhil in Fine Art from the University of Oxford, supported in full by the Clarendon Scholarship. Personal website: www.liuxinyue.com