Embroidery in the Spot Light With Media Coverage

On 13th May, Christchurch Mail, a local newspaper in Christchurch reported on the “The Wonders of Embroidery- Yao Hong Ying Art Exhibition”. While at FGS South Island, the reporter covered all the art works currently exhibiting at Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery South Island.

The reporter described the exhibition as “once in a life time” and in terms of touching hearts and bestowing inspiration, “the one and only”. The forty pieces of embroidery works exhibited at the Art Gallery are the accumulation of both the artist’s inborn artistic nature and creativity and over thirty years of hard work by Ms. Yao, who began picking up this skill of stitching at the age of eight years.

Among the 200 pieces of embroidery works she has produced in total, artist Yao Hong Ying has adopted many movements of art, including traditional Chinese water paintings and emulations of art work by famous western artists such as Van Gogh and Klimt. Within her artwork, she also has the ability to integrate the two thousand year old traditional Chinese embroidery stitching methods with the two hundred year old western style of embroidery.

The report also contains three pictures of the exhibition, namely the traditional Chinese embroidery of two cranes, the emobroidery of the colourful scenery of “Jiu Zhai Gou”, and the French impressionist embroidery depiction of “Wang Zhao Jun”. These three borderless works have truly revealed and represented the skill and creativity of Ms. Yao Hong Ying.