Xinan Yang: The First Letter Home in Spring

The First Letter Home in Spring is a four-chapter visual story. It traces an inner journey through displacement, memory and belonging. Rooted in artist Xinan Yang’s transnational experience, painting becomes a language of memory. The artist treats painting as a form of letter-writing that translates distance into tenderness. 

The exhibition asks what ‘home’ means today. It reflects on digital intimacy, transnational mobility and fractured identity. The work moves through different stages, from digital rupture and inherited memory to quiet domestic stillness and symbolic return. It ends with a meditation on cultural belonging influenced by Magical Realism. It feels like speaking to the remnants of home, a conversation that lingers without closure, like a letter that is written but never delivered. 

The First Letter Home in Spring offers a space to reflect on your own memories, places and sense of belonging. 

Artist Bio 

Xinan Yang is a London-based artist. Her practice explores memory, cultural identity and belonging through transnational experience. She holds a PhD in Fine Art. Her practice uses painting and drawing as acts of remembrance. She transforms personal and collective imagery into poetic visual narratives. 

Her recent work blends digital traces, family archives and domestic stillness to reimagine ‘home’ as an emotional landscape shaped by distance and tenderness.  

Opening Event 

Join us to celebrate the opening of The First Letter Home in Spring 

Saturday 7 February, 2–4pm 

Stables Gallery 

Free entry, booking is advised.