June Hou is a participatory artist and documentary practitioner based in London, working across women’s storytelling, moving image and socially engaged practice.

Her practice centres on creating spaces where ordinary women can share their stories and lived experiences, and exploring different artistic and participatory forms through which these stories can be heard, seen and encountered by wider audiences.

Her work has developed from long-form documentary storytelling towards increasingly participatory and collaborative forms. In She Speaks: Voices of Women in Islington, she brought documentary conversations with women into dialogue with artistic responses across painting, photography, textiles, sound and other media, culminating in a multimedia exhibition. Through In Her Hands, this enquiry developed further: women in London created personal artist books using collage, photographs, handwriting and personal materials, while the Beijing iteration brought together handwritten reflections from 100 women within a collective installation.

Before developing her independent artistic practice, Hou worked for more than ten years as a journalist and editor at Global Times. She later completed an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Film at University College London (UCL), where she developed moving image as another way of engaging with personal experience.

Across her projects, documentary, participation, artistic collaboration and public presentation operate as interconnected parts of a continuing enquiry into how women’s lived experiences can move beyond documentation and enter shared artistic and public spaces.