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Gu Xiuhua (b. 1988)

Return to Nature No. 3 — Mirror Image

2015

Wood engraving

45 x 108 cm

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Gu Xiuhua employs the vocabulary of the wood engraving in the making of his woodblock prints. He makes clear references to books of engravings, often coloured, illustrating birds and insects which were popular in the growing interest in the natural world during the eighteenth-century. Gu’s images are extraordinarily skilful, highly detailed and symbolically complex. He was the First Prize Winner at the Muban Educational Trust’s Woodblock Printmaking Awards in 2016.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number guvxh002