Elaine Woo MacGregor: Daughters of the Silk Roads
Published by SilkPine, 2026
Texts by Ferren Gipson and Ruth Millington
Photography by Robin Mair and Elaine Woo MacGregor
Printed by Mixam
Designed by James Brook
ISBN 978 1 9194375 0 7
Printed paper over board cover with matt lamination | 148 x 210 mm | 48 pages
Printed by Mixam on 150 gsm uncoated paper with white endpapers
Daughters of the Silk Roads is a publication that collects together a body of work by Scottish-born Chinese artist Elaine Woo MacGregor that engages with history, myth, and memory to create bold visual narratives of womanhood and intrepid exploration. The artist was a recipient of the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Travel Award in 2023 which gave her an opportunity to travel to Shanghai and Hong Kong, where she had lived in as a child, to consider the juxtaposition between traditional Chinese culture and the ultra-modern image of China today. A central theme of this series of works is the female traveller, riding on horseback and connecting the historical Silk Roads trade routes with the artist’s own journey of discovering her heritage.
