Public Programme

DIVING INTO THE HILLS – curated by Nanying Zhu and Jingxuan Lyu
PRIVATE VIEW Thursday 4th May 2023 6-9pm
Open Friday May 5th – June 17th 2023
Tuesday – Sunday 11 – 7pm
60 Conduit Street, London W1S 2YZ
Kindly supported by Regents Street W1

In collaboration with Hypha Studios, ‘Diving into the Hills” brings together a group of 14 artists that explore the relationship between landscape, narrative, gender and experience in a crossgeographical context. Nanying Zhu and Jingxuan Lyu are curators aiming to perform an on-site spring diving, leading audiences to walk into the hills in the post-epidemic period.

Included artists are: Emma Sielaff, Evangeline Morris, Miles Lauterwasser, Christos Kakouros, Yuanyuan Liu, Feifan Hu, Nanying Zhu, Jing Wang, Ruiyao Zhu

Upcoming events:

1) Artists’s Books
Exploring form and material which cannot be separated from artists’ book and how to publish integrates into this field.

2) Drawing on encounter
Discussing the practice approach to drawing from the perspective of the artist’s own artistic practice.

3) Bread Sculpture
Making bread into sculptures with participants and distributing them to the community.

4) Rubbing-Traces of life
Introduction and demonstrate rubbing techniques and joint rubbing practice with participants in the area.

5) Towelling-Transforming
The simple act of folding into a performance that narrative an intimate moment between mothers and daughters.

6) River Round Table
An evening conversation inviting residents to demonstrate rivers, life and memories.

Awards:

The long-term Consensus Communities “Project AnotherLand” in China, Nanying Zhu
Collaboration with artist Micah Lexier-Printed Envelope Project UK,2023, Jingxuan Lyu
Co-publication: Artist Talk Magazine-The Next Generation-Issue 20, UK,2022, Feifan Hu
The Winner of purchase prize: Clifford Chance postgraduate printmaking London,2022, Evangeline Morris
Member of the organizing team of Impact9·International Printmaking Conference China,2015, Nanying Zhu
Exhibitions:
New Contemporaries, (UK,2023)
Impact12·International Printmaking Conference, (Bristol,2022)
Summer exhibition, (UK,2022)
Dimensions Interaction-The 2nd Domiao Contemporary Art Exhibition, (China,2021)
43rd Japan University Print Exhibition, (Tokyo,2018)