Exhibition

In recent years, enthusiasm for Chinese prints has greatly increased. This has coincided with a number of important exhibitions (for example, at the British Library, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Ashmolean Museum) and the 2008 “China Now” festival, the U.K.’s largest celebration of Chinese culture. Another important catalyst has, of course, been this year's Olympic Games. In response to this, we are delighted to be able to mount a small exhibition of contemporary Chinese woodblock prints.

In 1998, the Muban Foundation, which has a distinguished collection of such work, commissioned a portfolio of prints from contemporary Chinese artists. Artists were selected by an expert panel because they represented the wide range of talent working in the contemporary field and a wide variety of printmaking practice. It is from this portfolio that our prints have been chosen.

“Incomparable happiness for me is wandering in the colourful world of black and white”. - Dong Jiansheng