Special Schools Workshop Offer With Artist Yu-Chen Wang
October - December 2012
(except for 9, 23 October, 6, 20, 24 November and 2 December)
Yu-Chen Wang is a Taiwanese born, British based artist who has previously exhibited at Cornerhouse, Manchester (2011); FutureEverything Manchester (2011); Guest Projects, London as well as extensively internationally. She has a strong background in delivering family friendly workshops for Children's centres and schools.
In her work she is curious about everyday objects and surroundings and how she can add individual elements and bring various components together to transform them into something extraordinary. She completed her Breath residency with us Feb-May 2011 during which time she also ran workshops in schools which were a great success. As an experienced workshop artist she is offering to run some paid contemporary creative drawing, film making or bookmaking workshops during October/November.
If your school would be interested in taking up this fantastic opportunity or want to know more about costs then please enquire with elizabeth.wewiora@chinese-arts-centre.org or call on 0161 832 7271
More about the artist...
'My work explores the notion of representation, distortion and transformation, and the transitional space between them. I create objects and visual narratives that take the audience onto a journey of rediscovering our industrial history and current post-industrial society. I am interested in the concept of machines, and energy, and art’s potential in dreaming of and hoping for a better future.I work in response to specific sites and architecture, as well as these spaces’ contextual histories. I use fictional stories, installations and films as tools to unfold the connections between the past and future possibilities, existed and added. My work employs a visually rich and captivating storytelling style, and often is developed through a number of stages and with different collaborators, including writers, artists and participants/audience, to allow materials to evolve organically.' Yu-Chen Wang
