More cool work related stuff – there’s an amazing exhibition opening in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin Castle called Telling Images of China opening on the 12th February. It’s an incredible collection of paintings from the 15th to 20th century from the Shanghai museum.

The exhibition includes scrolls and albums by artists active in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties and the early Republican period after 1912. Each of these ‘story paintings’ retells or illustrates a tale from folk and religious lore, oral and official history, poetry or literature. The exhibition is presented through four sometimes overlapping, sometimes interweaving themes, namely ‘crossings’ – stories about exiles, loyalists and rustics; the supernatural world of popular religion; models and exemplars in history; and finally, emperor-concubine and scholar-beauty romances. There are artworks which illustrate texts inscribed on or beside the paintings themselves.

We’ve had the pleasure of working with these images in X Communications to create touch screen interactives and iPod tours (hours of hard work and heartache by Stephanie), so if you’re there please check them out!