Song Shuiguan
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Han ethnicity, born in October 1946 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. Research-level senior arts and crafts artist. Immersion from childhood led him to fall in love with the art of nut carving. In 1967 he joined the carving factory of Zhoushan Village and formally took up the carving arts. In more than fifty years of practice his carving has become fine and exquisite, his forms lively, and his use of the knife resolute and full of strength. He excels in traditional subjects such as arhats, immortals and Maitreya, and also works to extend his repertoire, producing a great many accomplished pieces including the arhat heads of Zijin Nunnery, flower baskets, the Pavilion of the Eight Immortals and a sleeping lion.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of nut carving (Guangfu nut carving), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 2009 his work Chengfeng Polang (Riding the Wind and Waves) received the ninth China Folk Literature and Art Shanhua Award, jointly conferred by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association, while Shiba Luohan (The Eighteen Arhats) and Hezhou (The Nut Boat) were shown at the second China Art Collection Exposition and won gold awards.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Nut Carving Ⅶ-59
- Nut Carving Ⅶ-59
- Nut Carving Ⅶ-59
- Nut Carving Ⅶ-59
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