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 – 16 December 2023.

EVENT DETAILS

Thursday 25 January 2024
3-5pm
$20 + booking fee
VENUE: 16albermarle Project Space
16 Albermarle Street
Newtown 2042 NSW

About Tianli Zu
Sydney-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.