Dongwang Fan: Clay Relief Creative Workshop
In this workshop, artist Dongwang Fan will run a clay relief carving session and guide you through Chinese designs.
You will learn how to carve a mini landscape on clay formed by a willow tree, a bird and a pavilion. They symbolise love, friendship, freedom, loyalty and courage in Chinese painting and carvings.
The workshop is suitable for adults to learn the basics of traditional Chinese low-relief landscape composition. Appreciate Chinese philosophy and aesthetics in a way that is easy to understand, yet meditative, enjoyable and relaxing.
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Dongwang Fan is one of the five artists exhibited in the exhibition The trace is not a presence …, an exhibition examining time, history and memory through different Chinese diasporic communities.
Fan studied traditional Chinese art including paintings and ivory low relief carving at Shanghai School of Arts and Crafts (SSAC) in the 1970’s and migrated to Australia in 1990 where he studied Master of Art at COFA and Doctor of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. He has exhibited widely including NGA and won many prizes including the Mosman Art Prize. He was twice the finalist at the Wynne and Sulman Prizes at the AGNSW and the finalist at Moran prize.
Header image: provided by the artist