V&A MUSEUM SHAPE OF US FESTIVAL 2023
As part of the Shape of Us Festival at the V&A Museum, celebrating Thomas J Price’s sculptures at the V&A and sculpture across the collection, the festival consisted of different participatory workshops and events for families.
Woo Jin delivered Mythical Sculptures workshop as part of the Shape of Us Festival - a collaborative workshop using old textiles and garments to create soft sculptures, later to be added to the growing body of the central mythical sculpture.
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/YRv4VZ573dA/summer-family-festival-19-august-2023
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY X ELAP X WOO JIN JOO 2023
As part of East London Art Prize program, shortlisted artists hosted series of events, taking over the gallery’s after hours.
About Woo Jin’s Mythical Embroidery Workshop:
Nodding to the legacies of traditional East Asian folklore, mysticism, and mythology that inform her artistic practice, join mixed-media artist Woo Jin Joo in this collective embroidery workshop, as we conjure and dream up our own mythical landscapes and ecologies.
After being guided through some simple embroidery stitches, you will use a range of fun materials to design, stitch, and create your own mythical creatures to build out a vivid, imagined world together – an entanglement of the different stories and tales that are carried and passed down to us.
https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/east-london-art-prize-x-whitechapel-gallery/
BOW ARTS X WOO JIN JOO
Bow Families Workshop 2023
Bow Arts are an arts and education charity and a social enterprise based in East London. Bow Families are family-friendly workshops hosted by Bow Arts across the year.
Woo Jin ran a series of workshops across the summer of 2023, responding to Lucy Orta’s Exhibition ‘Traces: Stories of Migration’. Each workshop explored the idea of migration through different approaches.
https://bowarts.org/event/mini-garments-woo-jin-joo/
https://bowarts.org/event/stitching-our-journeys-woo-jin-joo/
https://bowarts.org/event/london-landmarks-woo-jin-joo/
https://bowarts.org/event/flags-for-a-new-world-woo-jin-joo/
Participants’ Outcomes
Craftspace x Woo Jin Joo
In:Site Festival 2022
In:Site is an annual event by Craftspace, in the centre of Birmingham which provides an opportunity for selected new arts graduates to create bespoke, site-specific artworks.
Woo Jin during her In:Site Festival 2022 developed and led a participatory workshop that involved the local community. The workshop focused on drawing as a starting point to storytelling, and later translating the drawing to an embroidered art work using domestic textiles.
https://craftspace.co.uk/insite/artists-2022/
Participants’ Outcomes
RCA DRAWING x WOOJIN JOO
RCA Drawing is an independent collaborative project founded in 2019 by Lucy Gallwey and Sarah Mercer, bringing people together through the practice of drawing from across the Royal College of Art community.
In this collaborative workshop, participants were guided throughout series of exercises, which were designed to inspire imaginative drawing outcomes, with artefacts as starting point of their imagination. These exercises were inspired by WooJin’s own creative practice often exploring ordinary objects and materials that are overlooked.
