Slow Making Workshop with Jacky Cheng
Rural Utopias artist, and SPACED Board member Jacky Cheng, is holding a workshop at John Curtin Gallery on Sunday March 15th 1pm.
The hands-on session offers a welcoming and inclusive space to explore folding as a creative and ritual practice using paper, inviting slow making, conversation, and reflection. Drawing on themes from Thania Petersen's current Perth Festival exhibition “A Call and Response Across the Ocean” - including cultural memory, kinship, friendship, storytelling, and embodied practices - participants will be guided through simple folding processes that encourage attentiveness to touch, repetition, and gesture. Folding becomes a quiet act of care: a way to hold stories, mark time, and connect across personal and shared experiences.
No prior experience is required. All materials are provided, and participants are invited to arrive as they are - curious, reflective and ready, to spend an afternoon making and thinking together.
Jacky Cheng is a Malaysian-born artist of Chinese heritage based on Yawuru Country in Broome, Western Australia. Trained in architecture at the University of New South Wales, her sculptural and installation practice investigates ritual, diaspora and cultural transmission through materially driven processes, particularly paper and fibre. Read here about her residency in Margaret River, for SPACED 4: Rural Utopias.
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Image of Jacky Cheng by Robert Frith. Artwork image: Triangular grid fold, courtesy Jacky Cheng.
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