Chinese New Year 2024 Artists-In-Residence Series Workshop

Pick Your Week:

Week 1 :  7 – 9 Feb 2024
Week 2 :  14 – 16 Feb 2024

This Chinese New Year, we are hosting two unique artist-in-residence workshops. Introducing Savannah Russell specialising in the realm of Photography & Videography, and Alex Dutton, in Art & Maths through creative STEAM classes.

Geometry Symmetry

(Geometric Drawing, Digital Editing)

For 9 yrs+

Fees : $2,950
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Unleash the creative potential of mathematics! Whether it’s the drawings of MC Escher or the architecture of the Islamic world, maths has been used by artists and designers for centuries. Guest STEAM facilitator Alex Dutton will coach you through three ways of mathematically developing a repeat pattern into complex figuration as well as through mathematical randomness. Then, Colour My World facilitator Jem Perks will teach you ways to make use of digital art software to create complex tessellations from your work quickly and easily! No advanced maths knowledge needed.

About the Facilitators :

Alex Dutton is a tutor, teacher and founder of STEM education NGO Phoenix Space. He brings his deep knowledge of maths gained during his studies as astrophysics and combines it with a fresh, creative perspective that is hard to find in the classroom. He coaches Days 1 & 2 Geometric Drawing.

Jem Perks is an illustrator and designer who works with both digital and traditional media. He has been commissioned to illustrate for a variety of purposes including book covers, product packaging, and event promotion. He coaches Day 3 Digital Editing.

Fantastical Landscape Cinemagraph

(Photo Manipulation, Digital Collage)

For 9 yrs+

Fees : $2,850
Pick Your Week:
Wed – Fri, 7 – 9 Feb
Wed – Fri, 14 – 16 Feb
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

Dive into the digital with this photo-manipulation workshop introducing the basics of video editing (masking, layering, colour-editing) on Adobe Photoshop. Use digital image manipulation and animation to create a ‘still’ moving image – or cinemagraph. Combining images from various visual sources, we will create a multi-layer, fantasy-inspired digital collage complete with moving elements designed to delight and surprise.

About the Facilitator : Trained as a video producer, editor and photographer, Savannah is a freelance artist, whose work has been featured in multiple exhibitions including a recent group show with the Hong Kong Arts Collective. She is also art director to numerous live performances. When she is not teaching art, she runs her brand SKR studios for photo and video production.

Pick Your Week:

Week 1 :  19 – 20 Jan 2023
Week 2 :  26 – 27 Jan 2023

Begin the year of the Water Rabbit by participating in our food-themed two-morning art & drama camps for 4-10 yrs. They shall pay homage to food through poetry, dim sum menus and collage. For those aged 10+, we are hosting a glowing illusion soft pastel still-life class.

My Dim Sum House

(Illustrated Collage Art)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 4 – 6 yrs

Fees : $1,450
Pick Your Week:
Thu – Fri, 19 – 20 Jan
Thu – Fri, 26 – 27 Jan
10:00 am – 12:30 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Pay homage to your favourite dim sum in this mixed-media illustrated menu workshop. Gain a little experience in layout design and illustration techniques. Use a range of methods such as stamping, drawing, cutting and pasting.

IN DRAMA…

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with lots of food… and poems! Our Friday intensive drama workshop will be dedicated to reciting poetry themed around festive food. Participants will learn fun poems and act them out using props and costumes!

Auspicious Food Collage

(Illustrated Collage Art)

VISUAL ART & DRAMA for 7 – 10 yrs

Fees : $1,650
Pick Your Week:
Thu – Fri, 19 – 20 Jan
Thu – Fri, 26 – 27 Jan
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

IN VISUAL ART…

Celebrate the joyous, auspicious, pun-filled origins traditional Lunar New Year foods. Create a collage poster to celebrate your personal top lucky food and its lucky origins. Use photographic references to recreate the food’s form and fill it with a variety of festive printed paper.

IN DRAMA…

We are celebrating the new year by creating our own collaborative poem! Work as a team to pen your very own food poetry as you make word choices, develop rhythm and rhyme, performance and self-awareness skills. Time to get thinking about all the tasty treats we shall eat!

Tooker’s Lantern

(Soft Pastel on Paper)

VISUAL ART only for 10 yrs +

Fees : $1,850
Pick Your Week:
Thu – Fri, 19 – 20 Jan
Thu – Fri, 26 – 27 Jan
10:00 am – 12:45 pm daily

Take two mornings to immerse yourself in soft pastel still-life. Observe the soft, diffused lighting of George Tooker’s artwork In the Summerhouse. Depict a still-life from a combination of life and photo references to depict your very own illusory glowing Lunar New Year lantern.