Garden of Eden: Master Class in Porcelain Flowers

with Ruth Ju-shih Li

1-Day | February 2nd, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ 3-Day | February 4-6th, 2024 | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The workshop will emphasize on meticulous and detailed flower making techniques while

developing your understanding of porcelain as a material. You will learn different hand- forming, press moulding and assembling techniques as well as a foundation in flower making skills. You will also have the opportunity to use and experiment with the artist’s unique press molds and elaborate on the techniques taught while being guided to create your own floral forms to demonstrate your new found skills and knowledge!

Ruth Ju-Shih Li (b.1992, Taipei, Taiwan) finished her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) at the National Art School, Darlinghurst (NAS), in 2013. She explores different ways of narrating both traditional and multicultural concepts of beauty, transcendence and the sublime as a cross-cultural language into the spiritual. The layering of imagery becomes a metaphorical representation of the self to consider the transitory nature of human existence.

*Basic hand-building experience required

*All materials are included

*Conducted in English

*Finished works can be collected approximately 5-6 weeks after the completed workshop at the studio.

Workshop Schedule

One-Day

The workshop will emphasize on meticulous and detailed flower making techniques while

exploring porcelain as a material. You will learn different hand- forming, press moulding and

assembling techniques as well as a foundation in flower making skills. You will also have the

opportunity to use and experiment with the artist’s unique press molds and elaborate on the

techniques taught while being guided to create your own floral forms to demonstrate your new

found skills and knowledge. Participants will take home their own fired porcelain flowers.

The workshop will include:

• Flower making techniques I, II and III

• How to use plaster press molds

• Unique flower assembling techniques

10:00-15:00 with 1hr lunch break

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Three-Day

Three-day intensive workshop with Ruth Ju-shih Li filled with demonstrations, discussions, as

well as intensive practical activities to develop technical skills. Explore and experiment with

porcelain, learn to make press moulds, collaborate with your fellow attendees in making small

ephemeral sketches in clay and test the unique techniques the artist has developed over years

of experimentation.

This workshop will emphasize on meticulous and detailed technical skills while developing your

understanding of porcelain as a material.

This workshop includes:

• How to make plaster press molds (demonstration and making)

• Unique flower making techniques I, II, III & IV (demonstration and making)

• Unique tendril, lupine and snapdragon making techniques (demonstration and making)

• Observation, Isolation and Interpretation exercise

• The artist’s unique assembling technique (demonstration and making)

• Signature dot glazing techniques (demonstration and making)

• Demonstration on complex flower making techniques

• Collaborate with your fellow attendees in ‘experimental ephemeral sketches in clay’

exercise

By the end of the workshop, you will have learned many different hand-forming, press

moulding and assembling techniques as well as a strong foundation in flower making

techniques. Participants will be guided to develop and create their own sculpture to

demonstrate their new found skills and knowledge.

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