Jingze Du in Conversation with Colin Martin

Dublin Lunar New Year

A live conversation and a fresh look at artwork by recent RHA studio artist and painter Jingze Du, with Head of RHA School, Colin Martin.

Join us for a live conversation and a fresh look at artwork by recent RHA studio artist and painter Jingze Du, joined by Head of RHA School, Colin Martin. Jingze Du creates paintings that are largely grey with accents of black and white. Most depict heads in various configurations. Some are slightly contorted while others are more naturalistic. They represent an oscillating position that is in between various alternatives: strength and weakness; fast and slow; masculine and feminine; validation and rejection; external and internal; conformity and independence, and above all they represent Du's status as an immigrant, someone whose life has been neatly divided into two parts, the first half in China; the second half in Ireland.The link to this event will be made available to ticket-holders on Eventbrite on Wednesday, 10 February at 17:00.Information about the Speakers:Jingze Du (born 1995, Yantai, China) moved to Dublin when he was thirteen years old. He later earned his BA at the National College of Art &amp; Design, Dublin (2017) and his MA from the Royal College of Art, London (2019). He had two solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (May 2020 and October 2020); Sol Art Gallery, Dublin (2019) and has presented work in group exhibitions in London and Dublin since 2016. Jingze Du is currently doing a residency at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.Colin Martin is an artist and lecturer based in Dublin. He is currently Head of the RHA School and lectures part time in the NCAD Media Department. He is a graduate of DIT and NCAD and works in the medium of painting and film. Recent solo exhibitions include Keyframe, Platform Arts, Belfast, 2014, Collection, City Assembly Building, Dublin, 2012, The Garden, curated by Kate Strain, Broadcast Gallery, DIT, Dublin, 2011, Cyclorama, Basic Space, Dublin. Recent group exhibitions include Locations of Estrangement, Art Projects, London, Surveille.e.s, CCI Paris, curated by Nora Hickey, House Taken Over, Private House, Belfast 2018 ,This is Not Architecture, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda 2017, Far From Me, Josef Fillip Gallery, Leipzig, N.O.W.H.E.R.E. Interview Room 11, Edinburgh 2016. He has received the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary in 2020, 2015, 2012 and 2007.

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