Tang Chenghua: Blossoming in the Spring Breeze
Tang Chenghua: Immersive Art Exhibiting in Printing Studio, Beijing 5th May - 18th June 2019 . Instead of exhibiting in a tidy and fancy art museum, this time Tang Chenghua will show his working environment, staff and creation process at a screenprinting studio in...
边界 | The Boundaries by Tang Chenghua
Tang Chenghua’s newest collection, a series called “The Boundaries”, is made of all large-scale, hand-painted work sketched directly from nature. Although it is catalogued as hand-painted, it’s actually more like “sweeping with besom”. Those vast, luxurious colour...
Reflections on Printmaking by Liu Jing – Part 2
One of the artists whose work we will showcase at the London Original Print Fair is Liu Jing. In our last blog post, he began to reflect on his ideas about art and printmaking after exhibiting in a solo show titled "Texture and Daily Life", held earlier of this year...
Reflections on Printmaking by Liu Jing – Part 1
One of the artists whose work we will showcase at the London Original Print Fair is Liu Jing. Below, he reflects on his ideas about art and printmaking after exhibiting in a solo show titled "Texture and Daily Life", held earlier of this year in China. "This is my...
A Glimpse of the ArtChina Stand at London Original Print Fair
For our coming exhibition at the London Original Print Fair, we have a great collection of original prints from a group of four Chinese artists. Prints depict styles from Northern China’s multi-blocks woodcut as seen in the work of Liu Decai to Southern China’s...
Tradition & Transformation: Contemporary Printmaking in Asia
As a cultural concept, “Asia” refers to a geographic space and as well as a historical and cultural identity. Asia was proposed as a community, actually a cultural oppression from Western centralism. In the past 100 years, "Western learning " has eroded many regional...
Looking Back: Affordable Art Fair Battersea 2019
Thank you to everyone who came along to the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea to see us last weekend, and especially to those of you who went home with a print from one of our talented Chinese artists. Thanks as well to the Affordable Art Fair team who made it such a...
Mu Beini: Exhibiting Works at The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea – London
One of the talented emerging Chinese artists whose work we'll be exhibiting at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, London next week is Mu Bieni. We caught up with her to hear her own interpretation of a few of her works. MOMO》系列作品创作诠释 Interpretation of the...
Cao Ou: Exhibiting Works at The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea – London
We're thrilled to be exhibiting the work of Chinese artist Cao Ou at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, London next month. We caught up with him to find out more about his work. Read on to find out what he had to say (translated). On the "Reconstructed Landscape"...
ArtChina at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea – London (March 7-10, 2019)
We're pleased to announce our participation in the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Spring show from 7th-10th March, 2019. Visit our stand to discover stories of China through our artists and their artwork. We'll have the work of six contemporary Chinese printmakers and...
30 Years Ago: A “Leather Jacket” Youth’s Past in Chongqing – Part 3
From “Rhodan” to “Rulai Buddha”: A Sculptor’s story by Jiao Xingtao, Part 3 “In the spring of 1992, an old man wrote a poem in the South Sea..." Following this poem, the whole class was suspended in order to build the "Pilgrimage to the West Palace”, the most popular...
30 Years Ago: A “Leather Jacket” Youth’s Past in Chongqing – Part 2
From “Rhodan” to “Rulai Buddha”: A Sculptor’s story by Jiao Xingtao, Part 2 "This was the season of love; there was love in the air..." I rented a house, which was located up in the mountains. I didn’t have a girlfriend then, so I spent lots of time studying various...
30 Years Ago: A “Leather Jacket” Youth’s Past in Chongqing – Part 1
From "Rhodan" to "Rulai Buddha”: A Sculptor’s story by Jiao Xingtao, Part 1 Photo: "Yellow Jacket" youthful past In 1988, I was admitted to the Sculpture Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. When I entered the school, I went to visit the Baigongguan Dregs Cave...
Meet the Artist: Yang Qi’s Biography of Art Life
杨起艺术生涯自述 YANG QI’S BIOGRAPHY OF ART LIFE 我出生在一个艺术氛围浓郁的家庭，我父亲于二十世纪三十年代末毕业于当今中国最高艺术学府“中国美术学院”的前身之一“苏州艺术专科学校”，...
Yu Chengyou: A Solo Exhibition in Shenzhen
One of our talented Chinese artists, Yu Chengyou's images draw upon natural surroundings, from wildlife to human life, places that, through the simplicity of his style, seem tranquil and uncluttered. His prints offer quite a contrast to the metropolises’ of China;...
In Conversation: Jack Bullen, Director of Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Meet Jack Bullen, Director of the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair where we will be exhibiting in a few weeks. Jack studied for his BA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School where he went on to work for many years. He now exhibits widely while running...
Meet the Artist: Hammer Chen (Printmaking)
One of the talented emerging Chinese artists we'll be exhibiting at November's Asian Art in London show is Hammer Chen, whose creative life bounces between Shanghai and London. Hammer is a printmaker, an artist and illustrator whose work, as she puts it, stems from an...
Meet the Artist: Wang Chao (Woodblock Prints)
One of the more established Chinese artists we'll be exhibiting at Asian Art in London at Design Centre Chelsea Harbour next month is Wang Chao, professor at the China Academy of Arts and director of its noted Purple Bamboo Studio. His work has been collected by...
Meet the Artist: Kecheng Zhu (Stone Lithograph Prints)
Meet emerging Chinese artist Kecheng Zhu whose stone lithographs prints explore the affect of body language on our relationships and everyday lives as well as the nuances between body language in the East and West.