Adventures in Art – Attenborough Arts Centre

Every Tuesday morning, for five weeks throughout April and May, I facilitated a series of ‘Adventures in Art’ workshops for … More

Book Prize: ‘Order: The Story of Fangyuan Bookshop’ by Lu Chonghua and Li Jin

My Wednesday find – an award winning Chinese book. Order: The Story of Fangyuan Bookshop by Lu Chonghua, designed by Li Jin and … More

March Papercutting – Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

A needed interlude to a world of academia and a universe of words at the moment. Yesterday evening, I facilitated … More

Wordgirl’s Top 10 Art Shows of 2015

Jumping on the New Year bandwagon, before jumping head first into 2016, I thought I’d share my top ten art shows of … More

‘Zhen Xian Bao/Chinese Thread Book’ Workshop with Lori Sauer

One of my many professional hats is a being a practicing book artist, and facilitating paper and book arts workshops … More

Exhibition: ‘Unmanned Nature’ by Cai Guo-Qiang at The Whitworth

A couple of weekends ago, manaXi and I managed to catch ‘Unmanned Nature’ by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang on its final day … More

Zines & Book Arts Workshop at NN Contemporary

Yesterday, was my penultimate day of teaching for the academic year 2014-15…this time in Northampton facilitating a one-day zines and … More

China in Print: Kassel Fotobook Award (LOOK/15) at Central Library, Liverpool

An impromptu visit to Liverpool a couple of weekends ago took me the city’s Central Library for the Kassel Fotobook … More

China in Print: OFFPRINT London 2015 at Tate Modern

This weekend, after a very birthday-celebratory filled week for many people including myself (apparently I’m 32 now), I was in … More

Photography: Ian Teh from China to Malaysia

I’ve been meaning to blog about British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh for a while now, specifically about his recent photo book … More