Using hand-building techniques, participants created organic forms of art including rice paper cut-outs for the children and amoebic pinch-pot planters for the adults.
Ms Ohmu said both workshops contributed to the personal body of work Showcase #23: Way to your heart which is currently on display at the museum.
“The pieces show the artist's hand, it’s like they have got the maker's mark on them and it celebrates the human within the art,” she said.
Working with clay for the adults' workshop, Ms Ohmu said she encouraged everyone to come with a mindset of playfulness and openness to failure.
“Ceramics comes down to physics, it’s an action and reaction — you press your hand into the clay and the body reacts,” she said.
“Compromise with this material and you’ll start to collaborate and start making something really beautiful.”
Ms Ohmu said she referenced memories from her childhood for the children’s workshop.
“My father worked in China when I was young he would bring back these paper cuts for me as a present, and the workshop this morning was a hybrid of all these different styles of paper cuts from around China,” she said.
“Coloured in with watercolour, this workshop celebrated the handmade and the connection to the material as well.”
Zhu Ohmu’s Showcase #23: Way to your heart will be on display at SAM, 70 Welsford St, Shepparton, until November 6.
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