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Xu Na (b. 1986)

Kind as Water—Bamboo Shadow

2017

Wood engraving

60 x 100 cm

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Xu Na was Joint Second Prize Winner in the Muban Educational Trust Woodblock Printmaking Awards in 2016. Her blocks are exceptionally large for wood engravings. They are composite blocks, made up by gluing smaller blocks of end-grain maple wood together, allowing finely cut images to be made on a very large scale. Her usual subject is water, with variously formed islands and waves. Another motif is shadowed in the background—in this case, bamboo—adding further texture to the image.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number xuvnv001