Traditional Chinese papercutting workshop for kids and adults

16albermarle Project Space

Learn the art of traditional Chinese papercutting with award winning artist Tianli Zu!

Delve into the art of traditional Chinese papercutting techniques with the award-winning multimedia artist Dr Tianli Zu. In a workshop inspired by her work in the current exhibition at 16albermarle Project Space Tianli will teach a papercutting workshop for participants aged 7-100! Discover the meaning behind the traditional symbolic patterns as Tianli shows you how to fold and cut while considering positive and negative space.Join this workshop to create your own papercuts to take home. No previous papercutting experience is necessary. All materials provided.The workshop is in collaboration with the exhibition Home and Away: Eight Asian Australian Artists' at 16albermarle Project Space from 22 November – 3 February 2024.About Tianli ZuSydney-based multidisciplinary artist Tianli Zu’s practice spans painting, sculpture, multimedia installations and video. But at the heart of her work are techniques of papercutting and Chinese folklore. Zu’s grandmother taught her simple paper cutting techniques, and her grandfather taught her calligraphy. Later, as an art student in Beijing she travelled to rural Shaanxi Province. Seated in tiny rural homes she learned papercutting from women who knew the traditional methods, listening to stories about the sources of imagery and symbolism. ‘It’s told through the story, the folklore, it’s lots of things that are forbidden, and there are lots of things that are so wild,’ she says. Her work in Home and Away juxtaposes Chinese traditions relating to health, longevity and the sharing of food with her love for the natural world.16albermarle Project SpaceEstablished in October 2019 by Australian art adviser/collector/curator John Cruthers, 16albermarle presents contemporary southeast Asian art in an intimate space in inner-city Sydney. Its aim is to connect Australian audiences to southeast Asia through art and encourage their deeper engagement with the countries of the region. Alongside this cultural agenda, the space also promotes the artists it shows and sells the artworks to return funds to the artists, most of whom live from the sale of their work. 16albermarle has staged 17 exhibitions to date, with artists and artworks from Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, the Philippines and Singapore. Exhibitions are accompanied by public programs, catalogues and educational materials for HSC and IB students. School visits are encouraged. Artworks are available to view on our website and all catalogues can be downloaded for free. 16albermarle also stages art study tours to important art events in countries of the region.

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