Workshop Description

Celebrating an artefact’s diverse history and embracing its imperfections, kintsugi, translated as ‘golden repair’, is the centuries-old Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted with gold powder. This art is related to the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, which, like kintsugi, embraces an object’s asymmetry, roughness and simplicity. Participants in the workshop will learn the technique of mixing the lacquer with metallic powder to create a paste that will hold the pieces of their broken pottery together again. The final result will be a jewellery plate laced with golden lines that tell tales of its history, beauty and encounters with adversity.