A working week: Hanzi letterpress at Enjoy Public Art Gallery
On the local front, we hosted visits and took the project into the world via articles and artist talks.
In September, the Asian Aotearoa Arts Hui catalysed a flurry of activity.
Emma Ng, author of Old Asian, New Asian, was inspired by the types and wrote a moving article, which, in turn, inspired historian Joanna Boileau to visit the type collection and discuss New Zealand Chinese material culture.
In her adjacent role as writer-in-residence at Enjoy Public Art Gallery’s exhibition A Working Week, Ya-Wen gave several talks as well hands-on letterpress print-making engagements, in which a tiny handful of Chinese type in her private collection became tactile advocates of its cousins here at Wai-te-ata Press.