Photo essay: China Residencies’ 2019 cross-country tour of arts spaces

July 10, 2019 by Jason Li

Montage of our photos of people and art in China

Ahead of its sixth Crystal Ruth Bell Residency program (apply now – it’s fully funded!), the team at China Residencies took a cross-country tour around China to visit art and culture spaces new and old. Below we’re featuring photo highlights from this strip, which have been culled (with permission) from their lovely Instagram account.…

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Interview: Oamul, Illustrator

May 17, 2016 by Christina Xu

A photo posted by 卤猫 (@oamul) on Nov 16, 2015 at 6:04am PST

Oamul (卤猫/Lu Mao) is a 27-year-old illustrator based in Xiamen, China. He’s animated in person, quick to laugh and constantly bolting out of his chair to show me something he’s working on or offer me snacks.…

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Reinvigorating an old art form: Shadow puppets

February 14, 2012 by Jason Li

Neocha is currently profiling the illustration & graphic design work of a Xiamen-based artist, Lin Xiaozuo. Featured: an interesting play on traditional Chinese shadow puppets.

First though, the original art form looks like this (photo source):

And Lin’s work:

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Photo essay: China Residencies’ 2019 cross-country tour of arts spaces

Reinvigorating an old art form: Shadow puppets