Australian artist NC Qin explores the histories of ancient battle artefacts with her primary medium of glass to prompt conversations on heritage and values. Appropriating the symbolism of glass and its associated fragility, risk and preciousness, she uses this medium as a lens to delve into psychological spaces. Her work alludes to global epics and philosophies that reflect her interests from her position as a Chinese Australian woman. Qin’s installations explore how myths change the value system of today, raising questions about the traditional values that are passed down.

NC Qin has exhibited in spaces such as Bankstown Art Centre, Griffith Regional Gallery, FirstDraft Gallery, 107 Projects and installed works in sculpture walks such as HIDDEN, North Sydney Art Prize and Fisher Library, University of Sydney. Her series "Head Case" was shown at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Architecture (Oxford, UK) as a finalist of IDENTITY 2019 and later collected by the National Museum of Glass (Wagga Wagga, Australia) as the winner of the National Emerging Art Glass Prize 2020. In 2021, she was commissioned by Gallery Lane Cove with a solo exhibition as part of the Lunar North Confluence with her work "Portal" going on to win the Vicki Torr Prize 2021. In 2022, she went on to be a finalist of numerous art prizes and was featured in a micro documentary by EST media. In 2023, she moved to the USA to pursue her MFA and expand her practice, in 2025 she won first prize in the Glass Art Society exhibition Evolution with her flameworked piece "Crowns of Glass: Yang Guifei".

Upcoming Exhibition: 

RepreSENSATIONAL 2025 in St Louis at The Galleries at Heartland Art Club

August 13 through October 4, 2025