The Ashmolean Museum presents Everyone’s Life is an Epic: New Work by Qu Lei Lei, on view through July 17, 2005. For the first time in the Ashmolean’s series of Chinese exhibitions, a show will be devoted to the paintings of a living artist, Qu Lei Lei. Renowned worldwide, Lei Lei will display a series of portraits depicting the very different lives of people living in different countries. From the paintings of a Tibetan peasant, a Chelsea pensioner and a young girl killed in Cambodia under Pol Pot’s regime, this exhibition tells the story of people.