Liu Jianxin
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of Han ethnicity, born in September 1951 in Changsha, Hunan Province. She is a Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts. She is a direct disciple of Zhou Jinxiu. She concentrates on embroidering figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and animals; her needlework is fine, her stitches lively, and she is especially accomplished in the fluff-wool stitch. Beyond working the needle she can also paint, and she creates by combining traditional Hunan embroidery with oil painting, gouache and photography. She has established an embroidery art museum and carries out publicity and promotion activities. She has held solo exhibitions of Hunan embroidery and given embroidery demonstrations around the world, spreading traditional Chinese culture.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Hunan embroidery, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Her works have won the gold award of the Mountain Flower Award for Chinese Folk Literature and Art, jointly presented by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Society for the Study of Folk Literature and Art, as well as provincial gold awards. She has founded an art studio and a transmission and training centre and has trained a number of successors in Hunan embroidery.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Hunan Embroidery Ⅶ-19
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