The Skin Project
Sun 16 Nov
|House of Annetta
A three-hour, walk-and-paint workshop led by artist Ruohan Yu. We invite participants to explore the House of Annetta and the surrounding streets of Brick Lane, where we situate drawing and painting into the discourse of inhabitation, repair, and reconstruction.
Time & Location
16 Nov 2025, 15:00 – 18:00 GMT
House of Annetta, 25 Princelet St, London E1 6QH, UK
Guests
About the event
The Skin Project is a three-hour, walk-and-paint workshop led by artist Ruohan Yu and curated by Nicole Zihua Zhang. The workshop forms part of Yu’s ongoing doctoral research at the University of Brighton, which examines painting as a sensual and material object that mediates our translation and reconstruction of everyday environments.
In Yu’s practice, walking is not merely a way of collecting visual references but an embodied methodology through which the body transforms dispersed urban places into lived, personal spaces. The painting, in this sense, becomes an object that activates sensory experience, emotional resonance, and memory by "borrowing” the “sensual qualities of objects” it references.
On 16 November 2025, participants are invited to explore the House of Annetta and the surrounding streets of Brick Lane, where we situate drawing and painting into the discourse of inhabitation, repair, and reconstruction. Along the way, we will observe, sketch, and take rubbings of…