Creative Clinic: Porcelain Ceramics with Ruth Ju-shih Li

Join artist Ruth Ju-shih Li for this special workshop at Belmont Resource Centre to learn the techniques and make your very own fired porcelain flowers. 

The workshop will focus on meticulous and detailed flower making techniques while exploring local 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 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.

This workshop is for adults aged 18 years and older and includes a lunch break.

About Ruth Ju-shih Li

Ruth Ju-shih Li is a Taiwanese-Australian artist whose ephemeral practice presents actions of meditation. Her work is a celebration of renewal, natural cycles of life and the gradual

progression of time. Speaking in the universal language of flowers, these chimerical microcosms of organic forms are autobiographical, yet mirror and extend onward to consider the fleeting and transitory nature of the human condition. Informed by her interest in articulating the complexities of cultural identities, Li draws inspiration from the languages of myth, rituals and the natural world in order to examine cultural confluences as an inclusive language into the spiritual. Li divides her time between her studio in Sydney, her birth city Taipei and her ancestral homeland of China - where her second studio is based in the porcelain city of Jingdezhen.

If you have any questions about this event or need assistance booking, please contact the City's Arts & Place team on 9477 7248 or via email at artsandplace@belmont.wa.gov.au