Zihao Hazel Mei is an Edinburgh-based artist and landscape architect, currently teaching at the University of Edinburgh. With a deep passion for exploring the intersection of art, design, and environmental studies, she employs walking, mapping, and embodied technology as integral tools for research and creation.
Her artwork delves into the realms of space, time, materiality, and bodily experiences through maps, drawings, moving images, and mixed media works.
Her teaching spans accredited undergraduate and postgraduate landscape architecture programs at Edinburgh College of Art, where she actively contribute to teach and develop critical communication and representation methods. Her landscape design background lends insight into the anthropological, phenomenological, and digital dimensions of contemporary landscape design, enriching her creative process.
Her works have been showcased in publications and exhibitions, including China Creative Design Yearbook (2013), Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibitions (2020-2021), and Studio Magazine 20 'Heretic' (2021).
The Contour Line Drawing by Matches
Using a bag of unwanted matches left by a former artist at BKN, I trace contour lines in landscape
