Silk-Thin Universes - Events Programme
- 2pm - 4pm | North Gallery
Arranging the Everyday on Silk: A Gongbi Fan Painting Workshop with Fang Chenzi
Free Admission, booking required.
Event details below
Arranging the Everyday on Silk:
A Gongbi Fan Painting Workshop with Fang Chenzi
Join artist Fang Chenzi for a hands-on introduction to gongbi, a meticulous tradition of Chinese painting in which colour is built up slowly, layer by layer, on silk. Held alongside her first solo exhibition in London, the workshop offers a rare chance to work with the same materials and techniques behind the paintings on display.
After a short introduction and demonstration, participants try a few practice strokes before colouring their own silk round fan. Each fan carries a design drawn in advance by the artist, bringing together everyday images in the spirit of her paintings. Guided by Fang, participants discover how depth and luminosity gradually emerge as each layer of colour is added.
Everyone takes home their own hand-coloured fan. No experience is needed and all materials are provided.
Workshop Details:
- Free Admission, booking required.
- 10 Participants
- 2pm - 4pm - North Gallery, Mall Galleries
- Ages 16+, no painting experience needed. Young people aged 12–15 are welcome when accompanied by a participating adult.
- All materials are provided, including silk fans, brushes and pigments. Participants do not need to bring anything. Please wear clothes you don’t mind getting paint on.
