Collaborative Matrix is a workshop where a participant would get to know a stranger through drawing and mono screen printing.
The collaborative creative process draws on the matrix of our visual imagination, spiritual intuition, as well as our social and cultural learnings. All of these conscious and unconscious processing unfold during conversations and simply being in a shared space. In this workshop, art also becomes a non-explicit opportunity to see oneself reflected through another’s eyes.
Partners will collaborate to create a symbolic portrait of one another. By the end of the workshop, each pair will complete two prints to take home.
Beginner friendly, no previous painting or screen printing experience required.
The workshop will be conducted in English and supported by Mandarin and Cantonese.
About the facilitators
Junyi Lu
Junyi Lu is an artist based in London, working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Her work engages with an elusive unconscious that bridges multiple planes of reality shaped by her transnational experience. She employs materials and symbols poetically, in a process that inches closer to the meaning of this unconscious. Her work has recently been exhibited at The Sunday Painter (London), Hew Hood Gallery (London), and SETAREH (Berlin).
Dora Cheung
As an art technician and practitioner based in London, Dora Cheung is interested in the relationships between art and people. She explores how the mind operates within creative processes, including how thought, emotion, and intuition shape artistic expression, and develops interactive environments that encourage participation, dialogue, and the exchange of ideas. She views art as both a reflective and collaborative practice, with a growing focus on participatory and socially engaged art.
About Outland Publishing Fair
Outland Publishing Fair celebrates independent publishing practices from Sinophone communities in London and worldwide, joined by contributors from across the Asian diaspora. Now in its second edition, the fair features 42 exhibitors, 63 communal table titles, and a programme of pop-up exhibitions, workshops, talks, panels, book launches, and walking tours.