Bamboo Entwine as they Grow: Bamboo Breathing Ink Workshop

In this workshop, artist Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen shares the ink painting method used in her work Phases of Breathing a Bamboo Forest exhibiting in Bamboo Entwine as they Grow at Bankstown Arts Centre.

Drawing inspiration from a method of Zen Buddhist meditative breathing, the bamboo forms mirror phases of breathing that are performed during the process of painting traditional bamboo imagery. Chen will guide participants through the process of breathing and the technique of painting traditional bamboo.

Participants will leave with their very own bamboo artwork and an appreciation of traditional ink painting.

When: Saturday 14 February, 3:20-5pm

Where: Bankstown Arts Centre, 5 Olympic Parade, Bankstown

Cost: $10

Note: This workshop has a maximum of 12 participants. Book now to reserve your place. All materials will be provided.

This workshop takes place as part of the closing event of Bamboo Entwine as they Grow.

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About the artist

Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen practices in Sydney on Darramuragal and Gadigal lands. Her expanded drawing, sound and video practice engages embodied listening and sounding to examine Southeast Asian Chinese diasporic identity as a generative and emplaced process. Through interactions with people and the material contingencies of places, Chen develops drawing, listening and sounding as interwoven practices that enact connections between ancestral trajectories and lived experiences.

Visit the artist's website here.

About the exhibition

Bamboo Entwine as they Grow has been developed in collaboration by Bankstown Arts Centre (Western Sydney) and the Museum of Art and Culture, yapang (Lake Macquarie). This two-part exhibition focusses on the practices of three artists Tiyan Baker, Dr. Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen and Sarah Ong, presenting new and loaned artwork across both sites. The three artists have used bamboo to explore themes of labour, love, resilience and life transplanted, each through their own contemporary bamboo practice.