The first monograph on the work of our gallery artist Jinya Zhao, Holding Air, Holding Light, is now available at the gallery. This is Taste Contemporary’s first collaboration with Hurtwood Books. Congratulation to all the team at Hurtwood on this beautiful publication. It’s been a pleasure to work with them on this latest title in their Contemporary Artist series.
The book includes 50 full-colour images of Jinya Zhao’s work as well as an essay by writer and curator, Emma Crichton-Millar, and an in conversation piece with Dr Li Xiaoxin, curator of Chinese collections at the V&A, London [the publication is also available in the museum shop].
‘I was first introduced to Jinya’s work by my long-time collaborators, curator Brian Kennedy and designer Peter Ting, both tireless champions of emerging talent. In Jinya, they had found another gem: an artist of rare commitment, vision and drive. From the beginning, her work displayed unrelenting ambition to push beyond boundaries – of form, colour and of perception itself.’ Monique Deul, extract from the Foreword of Holding Air, Holding Light