Level: Beginner/ Intermediate, 18+
Tutors: Wan Lin Chang, Yi Chen Li, Luke M Walker
Date: 30 June – 4 July 2025
Time: 10:30 – 17:00
Cost: £625 / £585 Early Bird
COURSE OVERVIEW
Join Taiwanese Arts practitioners, Wan Lin Chang, and Yi-Chen Li on a voyage of discovery through the potentials and possibilities of paper.
During this five day course, each day will focus on a range of different paper-related skills; from mapmaking, inspirational material foraging, rubbings, watercolour techniques, charcoal techniques, calligraphy rubber stamp making and finally bookbinding to give participants the opportunity to create a cohesive portfolio for the skills they have developed across the week.
The course aims to create a cross-cultural collaboration between the artists and participants and forge a deeper connection to the medium of paper and mark-making.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Papyrus dates back nearly 4500 years ago to the time of the Egyptians, but it wasn’t until the Eastern Han period in China (25-220AD) that the paper-making processes were actually recorded, becoming much more widespread first across the Islamic World and then Europe around the time of the First Millennia.
As many creative processes migrate into the Digital Realm, this course will give an opportunity to explore the territories unique to Paper and its importance in our cultural expression. Starting with a walk along the River Thames led by local artist and CGLAS Fine Art Tutor, Luke M Walker whose own practice involves walking and documenting the city, participants will be encouraged to map their journeys through collected items; sketches, rubbings, text and images to develop their own projects back in the studio.
Two Taiwanese Artists; Wan Lin Chang and Yi Chen Li will then lead you through a series of well paced workshops; Bookbinding, Watercolour, Calligraphy, Mapping and Ideograms in order for you to explore the timeless and universal languages of Art, Craft and design and the central role paper has played in these processes.
This is an opportunity to explore a cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary practice and an introduction to unique skills of creating and carving ink stamps, watercolour techniques and specialist bookbinding that encompass both the traditional applied Arts of Taiwan in the context of a Contemporary Art Practice.
What’s included: Paper, pencils, pens, charcoal, stamp-making materials, book binding materials.
What’s not included: Students are encouraged to bring along any materials that they would also like to work with during the week.
ABOUT THE TUTORS
WAN LIN CHANG is a practising Artist and Lecturer from Taichung, Taiwan. She studied at Chelsea Collage of the Arts before returning to Taiwan. She has exhibited widely both in Taiwan and the UK and as well as lecturing on Design in various Universities she also runs her own workshops across Taiwan, with skills including Watercolour and book-binding.
YI CHEN LI is an architectural designer, whose own practice focusses on model-making and drawing. She has also developed a passion and skill in rubber stamp carving and runs various community initiatives and workshops to share these techniques more widely. She is also Curator of ArtDE Corner Space, a celebrated Community space in the heritage quarter of Tainan created in a restored sticky rice mill.
LUKE M WALKER is a London-based Fine Artist, whose own practice focusses on documenting the city through walking and constructing large scale works in paint and charcoal. He has exhibited extensively across the UK as well as in several shows in Taiwan. Luke is also a Visiting Lecturer at CGLAS and a former Associate Lecturer at Chelsea Collage of the Arts.
