Xue Chunmei
Lineage & School of Heritage
She studied the art of jade carving under Gu Yongjun.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Han ethnicity, born in January 1965, a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. She is a Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts. She has devoted herself to the techniques of jade figure carving and shanzi carving, and has conducted in-depth research on materials, subjects, composition, forms, artistic conception and methods of expression. Carrying on tradition and drawing on the essence of Ming and Qing jade carving, she has also learned from wood carving, ivory carving, stone carving and clay sculpture, creating a series of lively, endearing and vividly realistic images of children. Works such as "Pomegranate Opens a Hundred Seeds" use personification to convey meaning through scene and object, in a fresh, graceful, delicate and refined style. She has created several hundred outstanding works and has won numerous awards.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Yangzhou jade carving, a fourth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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