Projects & Works | Sherry Wang

In 2013, and 2019 to 2021, she used clay and fiber art as her primary creative mediums, with all materials—including colors—sourced from nature.

Since 2021, she has begun approaching her work through project-based initiatives, focusing on the issues she seeks to explore behind each piece.

In 2013, 2019-2021, she used clay and fiber art as her main creative media, and all materials, including colors, were taken from nature.

After 2021, she began to create in the form of project projects, focusing on the issues discussed behind each work.

Art Residency: Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan (1/2)

Xenogeneic Species Across Time and Space: Kandelia

Taiwanese native Kandelia

-Specimen of Kew garden

Embroidery on paper

Oil painting on canvas

Watercolour

Handmade pigments (Kandelia, Triadica sebifera, sweet potato leaves)

In an online communication with Mr. Jiang He, who has been concerned about natural ecology for a long time, we discussed in- depth the Kandelia and wetland ecology. This led me to explore a British botanic collector Richard Oldham who came to Taiwan in 1864 to collect the "Taiwan Native Kandelia Specimen"; the distinction of Taiwanese Kandelia; and the reintroduction of the reintroduction of another species of Kandelia in 1976. I was very interested in such evolution of the existing foreign species of Kandelia in Taiwan, so I developed the work 01. "Xenogeneic Species Across Time and Space: Water Pen".

Art Residency: Bamboo Curtain Studio, Taiwan (2/2)

Your Story/ His Vegetables/ Our 17-year-old

“Organic vegetables become a medium, connecting our age 17” The 'Yilin Farm', located in the middle of the Shumeikeng River Basin, trains young people to grow organic vegetables and produce local crops; at the same time, there exist the practices of local knowledge. From planning to bodily practice, from observation, interviews, harvesting, boxing and shipping, I recorded each stage of these actions. I then sent a box of organic vegetables from Yilin's farm to six participants, asked them to make a dish with the vegetables they received, and shared a 17-year-old story with me while cooking in video or voice calls. I developed the work 02. "Your Story/His Vegetables/Our 17-year-old".

The beginning

Taking place/time/memory as the entry point of this village residency, I extended to the multiple relationships interwoven between people, people and plants, plants and places, and people and places. During the process of the residency in Zhuwei, I contacted and interviewed people who know and have a close relationship with local plants. I focus on two aspects of "local production" and "local knowledge" as the basis for development.

During residency: intertwined with plants, people, and places

In addition to the above two projects, I also conducted plant inspections and collections, and the production of plant pigments. Three kinds of plant pigments were made: tallow branches and leaves (outside the Zhuwei studio), sweet potato leaves (planted by Yilin Farm, irrigated by Shumeikeng Creek), and Kandelia (Shumeikeng Creek estuary).

Pink Storms

2024

This work is inspired by the "plant hunting" trend in the Victorian era. More than two hundred years after the introduction of exotic/foreign plants (non-native plants), they still significantly impact Scotland's ecological environment. What else can we do besides identifying and removing (even if challenging to eradicate)?

1-1 Rhododendron ponticum_edited_edited_

1-3 Salmonberry_edited_edited_edited_edi

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Brown is soil; blue is made from the indigo plant.
Synthetically produced paints are used for the plant body (a representation of the plants' original bright pink appearance).

Beach Windbreak painting workshop using edible plant dyes

Edinburgh Art Walk Projects 2024

Beach Windbreak project involves participants painting onto the windbreak fabric using pigments from local collected plants (using edible plant dyes)