Weimin He's construction portraits

"This exhibition presents the artist Weimin He's creative responce to the recent major redevelopment of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Inspired by the noise, dust and activity of the construction site, he has chronicled the transformation of the Ashmolean from the demolition of the old galleries in 2006 to the completion of the new building in 2009."
- I typed all of that (and the two paragraphs to follow) out, copied from a photograph I took.

"At the same time he has also made portrait studies of many of the construction workers and the Museum's own staff.  These portraits are brush drawn in ink on pi and xuan papers or as album leaves, a technique that has been used in China for more than a thousand years. Weimin's own woek is particularly inspired by the simplicity and boldness of Han dynasty seal (206 BC - AD 220), while endowing the traditional medium with his contemporary interpretation."

"Weimin He was Christensen Fellow of Chinese Painting in the Ashmolean's Department of Eastern Art for four years until 2008, followed by a term as Artist in Residence. He curated the exhibition Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum, shown between October 2007 and February 2008."

These really interested me and stood out against all the other things I'd seen in the museum before hand. I'd like to do something like the first lot of images. They're almost like precise monoprints, and you can definately see the traditional Chinese influence.