Individual Meetings: to be decided in agreement with the student

Group Meetings: First Tuesdays (AEST)

Workshop Agenda: In-person workshop in Jingdezhen, China (exact dates to be determined, likely October/November 2027).

The workshop will take place in my residency studio in Jingdezhen, China's historic porcelain capital, offering an immersive experience that combines studio practice with the city's rich ceramic heritage.

Participants will explore conceptual and material experimentation, and contemporary sculptural approaches to clay while developing their own artistic voice. Having maintained a studio practice in Jingdezhen for over a decade, I will introduce our cohort to the local ceramic community and share the networks, resources, and makers that have become an important part of my own practice.

Beyond the studio, we will visit historic kiln sites, museums, working factories, and local craftspeople to gain a deeper understanding of Jingdezhen's living ceramic culture. Participants will also have the opportunity to arrange optional classes such as blue-and-white painting workshops and commissioning custom plaster moulds from local makers to take home to their own studios.

Throughout the workshop, we will also discuss concept development, artist residencies, exhibitions, grants, and building a sustainable international practice. The experience will include demonstrations, individual mentoring, group critiques, and conversations shaped by the interests and goals of the cohort.

Studio Accessibility:
The residency studio is partially ADA accessible, with ramp and elevator access throughout the building. Please note that the bathrooms do not have accessible grab rails. I am happy to discuss individual access requirements in advance and make reasonable accommodations where possible.

About Ruth

As an emerging Taiwanese-Australian artist, my practice examines heritage, place, and materiality in states of flux. Grounded in an autobiographical framework, my work interrogates impermanence, renewal, and the shared human experience. I create sculptures and site-specific ephemeral installations, often working in-situ with raw materials in transitional states - inviting change; to soften, to collapse, to return to the earth. My practice exists in these transitory moments; not as objects of preservation, but as gestures of impermanence. Material remnants are continually gathered, recycled, and reformed, establishing a cyclical process with each iteration carrying traces of the last. Treating time as both material and collaborator, my forms become vessels for collective and personal memory, offering meditations on the transient nature of the human condition and the cyclical rhythms embedded in the environment. By embracing the ephemeral and the cyclical, my practice resists monumental forms of sculpture and foregrounds vulnerability, intimacy, and transformation, prioritising continuity over permanence. I am interested in the ways the body remembers across generations and how ephemeral processes can become gestures of resilience and create space for dialogue and reimagination. Each work is part of an ongoing conversation—with material, with memory, and with those who encounter it. Cyclical and alive.