Rice Clay Sculpture workshop with Vivian

In the onlinve workshop, you’ll learn how to create a brand new sustainable and organic material from scratch — Rice clay. This is a material innovation by artist and jewellery designer Vivian Qiu as part of her ongoing material research and development with rice, along with rice fabric (check out her Sentimental Rice Jewellery project) and soil clay.

Rice clay is a mixture of cooked rice and embroidery floss. The process may be a bit messy, yet very meditative. After dehydrating it under the sun naturally, the rice clay becomes stiff and hard. If you hold it against the light, you can see the magical texture of rice clay due to translucency.

Rice clay can be made into lots of beautiful objects - from bowls, to sculpture pieces and even jewellery.

What you will learn: 

• How to mix cooked rice with different fibres, especially embroidery floss to create this unique material
• Dehydration process
• Moulding technique to transform it into beautiful pieces of useable art. 

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