Contemporary Paper Cutting Workshop
11am - 1:30pm Saturday 28 June 2025
Contemporary Paper Cutting Workshop
Elysha Rei | $80 - $100
Elysha Rei, Yohaku no bi (the beauty of empty space) (detail), The Condensery Bomb Shelter, 2024, hand cut polymer paper installation, dimensions variable. Photograph: Louis Lim 2024, courtesy of the artist.
Create your own unique paper cuts in The Studio with exhibiting artist Elysha Rei. In this engaging workshop, Elysha will share insights into her practice and introduce the fundamentals of paper cutting. The session includes a brief history and theory of the medium, design techniques and instructions for using craft blades safely. All materials and equipment provided. Suitable for beginners and those with some prior experience.
Elysha Rei’s exhibition of hand-cut paper artworks Shirozato to Shinju (White Sugar and Pearls) is on display 13 June - 27 July 2025.
Member Discount
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Umbrella Members $80 | Full Price $100
Limited to 12 spaces (ages 18+) | Bookings close on the Friday prior to the Workshop Day at 4pm. | The workshops will take place in Umbrella’s downstairs studio at 408 Flinders St. | All bookings subject to Umbrella's workshop and public programs booking policy.
Elysha Rei (pronounced eh-lee-sha ray) is a Japanese-Australian artist who explores narratives of cultural identity, site-specific history and environmental elements through paper cutting and public art. She holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (2008), a Masters in Business Administration (2018) and is currently undertaking a PhD exploring how Nikkei Australian identity is archived through creative paper cutting practice. Rei has created and exhibited work, curated exhibitions and managed cultural spaces over the past two decades in Australia and internationally. She founded the international artist residency program, Sam Rit Residency in rural Thailand in 2014, and co-founded the Artist-Run-Initiative Made Creative Space Toowoomba from 2011-2013. She has been an invited artist-in-residence for the Museum of Brisbane, Artspace Mackay and Barcaldine Arts Council. In 2018 Rei was the recipient of an Asialink Arts Creative Exchange in Japan, and is an artist fellow with the Past Wrongs Future Choices global research project based in Canada.
Image: Elysha Rei. Photograph courtesy of the artist.
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Acknowledgements
Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.
