Koori Ding (b. 1998, Beijing) is a painter and poet whose practice unfolds across London, Sichuan, and Beijing, drawing from both urban and rural landscapes. Currently based in London and pursuing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, Koori’s work constructs poetic structures through painting, shaped by language, sound, and writing. Rooted in the study of minority languages, oral traditions, and informal modes of knowledge, his visual language mimics poetic syntax—layering repetition, rupture, and metaphor to explore how perception and narration are continuously fragmented and reorganized. Informed by long-term fieldwork in marginal regions, his paintings navigate nonlinear terrains where rhythm replaces narrative, and structure emerges from the dissolution of systems. Influenced by contemporary literature, classical Chinese poetics, modern Japanese verse, and tonal dialects, Koori’s work transforms painting into a vessel of spatial thought—where text, image, and sound converge into an ever-evolving field of meaning.