https://fanpanworks.com/
Fan Pan is a Chinese artist and designer working between the UK and China. Her practice explores the relationship between paper, the body, structure, and wearable form.
She comes from Anhui Province in China, a region closely connected to the tradition of Xuan paper, while China itself is recognized as one of the key places of origin of papermaking in the modern sense, with a paper culture history of more than two thousand years. From this personal and cultural background, she approaches paper not only as a material, but also as a way of thinking through memory, identity, and cultural translation.
Her work combines paper experimentation, structural making, and wearable practice, often extending paper into garments, jewellery, and accessories. Grounded in Chinese paper culture and shaped by her research experience at the Royal College of Art, she continues to explore how paper can engage with the body — how it can be folded, worn, carried, and transformed. Through this approach, she seeks to move paper beyond its conventional role as a flat surface or passive support, bringing it into a contemporary embodied experience that can be sensed and lived. She is particularly interested in the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western paper cultures, and in how paper as a medium can be reinterpreted and rewritten within contemporary art and design.
Fan Pan is a Chinese artist and designer working between the UK and China. Her practice explores the relationship between paper, the body, structure, and wearable form.
She comes from Anhui Province in China, a region closely connected to the tradition of Xuan paper, while China itself is recognized as one of the key places of origin of papermaking in the modern sense, with a paper culture history of more than two thousand years. From this personal and cultural background, she approaches paper not only as a material, but also as a way of thinking through memory, identity, and cultural translation.
Her work combines paper experimentation, structural making, and wearable practice, often extending paper into garments, jewellery, and accessories. Grounded in Chinese paper culture and shaped by her research experience at the Royal College of Art, she continues to explore how paper can engage with the body — how it can be folded, worn, carried, and transformed. Through this approach, she seeks to move paper beyond its conventional role as a flat surface or passive support, bringing it into a contemporary embodied experience that can be sensed and lived. She is particularly interested in the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western paper cultures, and in how paper as a medium can be reinterpreted and rewritten within contemporary art and design.
