We are pleased to annouce that Goldsmiths Confucius Institute recently collaborated with local New Cross art gallery, hARTslane, on their participatory art project that brought together more than 100 Lewisham residents with a migrant background to produce a Blue-and-White dining room exhibit that retold the stories of cultural identity of local Lewisham residents.
As part of the project, staff members of the Confucius Institute created unique items of blue-and-white pottery that encapsulated their own understanding of blue-and-white porcelain and how it linked to their cultural identity as migrant residents of the borough.
You can learn more about the Come Dine in Blue project via this video.
Below you can also read the article commissioned by hARTslane for the project and produced by our departmental staff Rachel Kanev and Chenjin Ying:
From cobalt ores to Mongolian legends: the journey of your china dinner plate
Please note, that this article belongs to a wider body of work relating to the project; you can find and purchase the full publication on the hARTslane website.
