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Zhu Dansiyu 朱丹絲語

Zhu Dansiyu is an illustrator and digital painter. She graduated from Wuhan University of Technology, China, BA in Animation in 2014 and went on to work as a character designer in the production of mobile and PC games such as The Lost Empire(2014) and Shang Gu Jie Ling (2015). Dansiyu has a great passion for classical Chinese painting. She employs digital techniques to expand traditional content, narrates contemporary, individual, edgy, and borderline stories, and iterate classical motifs in this traditional art. Dansiyu advocates the idea of “Women`s Drawing” and works with image metaphor, context interpretation, creative writing, and the free association process of psychoanalysis. She is now based in Guangzhou and working as a character designer of the NetEase Games and devoted to a project that can practice her research results. Exhibitions: Les Is More, Work-in-Progress Show, Royal College of Art, 2020; The Neighbor, Tate Britain Archive, London, 2019; Hear My Voice, Canal Museum, London, 2019. Awards: Merit Award, Ijungle illustration Award, 2020; Finalists and selected work, Brightness Award, 2020