Donna Zhang 2 (Chinese, 1958)

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DONNA ZHANG
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) From the High Plateau
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DONNA DONGHONG ZHANG was born in the Jilin
Province of China in 1958. She enjoyed art from
an early age, recalling that as a child she would
playfully give expression to her friends wishes
for new shoes or toys by sketching them on paper.
She later went on to study art for about 13
years, achieving mastery in the techniques of
etching. Donna is formally trained as an art
educator, first at an institute in China in the
1980s, and during the 1990s at Japans Saitama
University where she obtained a Masters Degree
of Arts. The year 1999 was pivotal for Donna. She
accompanied a small group to a remote region of
Tibet on an ecological trip whose goal was to
preserve the habitat of an endangered monkey.
Once within Tibet, she came into close contact
with its indigenous peoples and was immediately
struck by their strength, dignity and openness.
She was deeply moved by the immediacy and warmth
of the experience, which stood in marked contrast
to the reservedness which typifies many urban
cultures. The 1999 trip and two further trips in
2001 and 2002 were the inspiration for Donnas
current work in portraiture, which reflects
better than words ever could the profound beauty
and resilience she sees in the faces of her
subjects. As Donna says simply, Their clothes
are not clean, but their hearts are pure.
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Donna Zhang - Preparing for the distance Tending
the herd
Peering out
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Shepherd girl
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Patiently waiting
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Close to home
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Gentle greeting
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Dreaming
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Closely connected
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Cool wind
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Boy
A quiet moment in the sunshine
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Quiet contentment
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) A pondering
moment An Jiao
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Protector
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Dressed In blue
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Gazing upon
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Family
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Gazing afar
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Innocent age
Doorway
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Mixed in the colours
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Summer time Far
Away
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Violet scarf
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Gentle soul
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Plateau Princess
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Seeking the future
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End of the day
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Young dreamer
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Purity
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Girl in Ahli
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Feeling the sun
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958)
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958)
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) The high view
Edge of the village
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Shepherd girl on the
Plateau
Little Nima
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In front of the Monastery
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958)
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Watching from afar
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958)
wanderer
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Light and shadow
Quiet girl
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Market day
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Mothers helper
Little coral
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Pause for thought
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958)
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Unsubdued
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Warm Breeze
Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958)
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Into the horizon
Reverie
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Radiant evening
Natural cowboy
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Passing through
Magaihma
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) A moment of sharing
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Winter on the
Plateau Grandmother's way
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Donna Zhang (Chinese, 1958) Towards the Mountains
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to their respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
2020
Sound Tsering Choenyi - Tibetan song
Thundrel
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