Contemporary film artist Enoch Cheng returns to Manchester to begin filming his latest work which explores memory and mythology in Manchester. On Thursday 17 December Enoch will be presenting a preview of his new work through an installation accompanied by a short performance at Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA). The Open Studio coincides with […]
Click on image to go to the Lily Charmed website and use the code for 10% off! British-Chinese visual artist Aowen Jin has been commissioned to produce a stunning outdoor artwork for the City of Birmingham. The artwork, named Midlight, is a field of fibre optic lights, which react in real time to sound. The […]
The directors of Very Art space, Yan Chen and Christophe Ménager, presents the first ever UK show by the acclaimed Chinese artist, Yiming Min. Entitled Therefore, the exhibition is comprised of a large-scale installation, sculptures and a suite of paintings executed in oil, all of which have been inspired by the environment around the artist’s […]
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre (SDAC) recently signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a new Chinese production of Henry V in 2016, premiering at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in November 2016. The production will be based on the RSC’s new theatrically-viable Chinese translation of Shakespeare’s Henry […]
Oriental Silk Trailer from Xiaowen on Vimeo. Oriental Silk is a documentary project created by London based artist Xiaowen Zhu. It features shop owner Kenneth Wong and his unsuspecting fabric store in Los Angeles. This store was responsible for the first imports for Chinese silk to America and by extension Hollywood. This once legendary store’s […]
Credit: Bafta The Duke of Cambridge, President of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), presented a BAFTA gift to Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, at Lancaster House, London, yesterday. The gift – an original artwork from the BAFTA archive revealing the heart of BAFTA’s historic headquarters in London […]
Bound Feet Blues: A Life Told In Shoes is both a theatre production – running for three weeks from November 24th in the heart of the West End – and a book. The memoir, to be published on November 9th, is Yang-May Ooi’s personal story, centred on the tradition of foot binding, as practiced by […]
Gardens, a passion shared in both China and Britain for centuries, are deeply rooted in both cultures. In C.18th England, the landscape architect Capability Brown established new trends with smooth-surfaced, undulating grass park-land, intermittently dotted with mature trees and occasional serpentine lakes. In China, classical gardens, consisting of walls, ponds, rocks, trees, flowers-beds and winding paths, date back even further, […]
RSC announces the details for its programme of international cultural, artistic and educational exchange with China. The Shakespeare Folio Project. With the opening of Henry V, a decade-long ambition to translating Shakespeare’s works into Chinese has begun its pilot phase working with Chinese translators, writers and theatre makers. Chinese Classics Project. A project to […]
Emily Gong, a Canadian artist, shares her experiences creating a sand malala artwork and her field research from the Gobi Desert Grottoes and Tibet. Exhibiting artwork is a strange phenomenon. It suggests an end to a work of art. A work of art starts with ideas that continue to transform, never truly finished – thus having no beginning or […]