#shrineshare
Back at the printing table again. Sweaty, aching, fingers daubed in ink.

#shrineshare
May 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"We designed it as an excuse for people to hold impromptu exhibitions, gatherings or parties. Watching #shrineshare unfold like a trail of confetti across time and space has been a dream come true."

Our little exhibition-in-a-folder is travelling!

smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...

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Shrineshare: A photo album
Brighton, Leicester, Georgetown, Port Dickson, Section 17
smokesignals.sharonchin.com
June 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Ahead of this weekend, when we bring #shrineshare (an exhibition of shrines by artists from all over, presented as art stamps) to the big city ( Sharon writes about the stamp art that's inspired and seduced her, over the years:

smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...

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Shrineshare: Weird worlds in a box of rubber stamps
Critical weirdness shortage on earth
smokesignals.sharonchin.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Afterimages of the exhibition of #shrineshare we put up for Temu Pasor / Ipoh International Zine Fest, late July. (Folks who came to visit are still sending us photos)

ShrineShare: 16 artists from all over, in a neat little folder, which you can unpack into a complete art show.

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August 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
KONGSI KERAMAT!

ShrineShare, our group exhibition in a folder, continues to travel!

Next stop: Temu Pasor @ Pasar Besar Ipoh, 25-27 July 2025, by Kinta Zine Club. Now with bahasa translation!

#shrineshare : 16 artists from all over. Curated by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social , Sharon Chin, and me!
July 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
SHRINESHARE also exists in digital form, in a Google Drive of images, texts, and voice recordings of said texts, for accessibility!

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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SHRINESHARE 2024 - Google Drive
drive.google.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:19 PM
KONGSI KERAMAT!

The Bahasa Melayu version of #shrineshare is a comb-binded photocopied zine, courtesy of our local old school photocopying shop, Syarikat Perniagaan Jackson.

ShrineShare is in exhibition as part of Temu Pasor @ Pasar Besar Ipoh, 25-27 July 2025, organised by Kinta Zine Club!

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July 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Installation for #shrineshare in Ipoh: complete!

Before:

(The sign reads: "Association of Ipoh Central Market Malay Traders")

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July 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Home and recovering from our weekend of sharing #shrineshare with folks in the Klang Valley.

Tired, and filled. We had so many conversations: about homes and art, ancestors and hurts. We had so much help: with set-up, food, people building a fire.

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May 27, 2025 at 3:07 AM
SHRINESHARE, an art folio made with @chincarok.bsky.social and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social . Featuring 16 (and counting) artists from around the world; exhibited over a half dozen (and counting) times around Malaysia and the UK. Inspired by @gatheraroundpjcts.bsky.social .

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December 31, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Welcome to #shrineshare !

A stamp-art exhibition about what we hold dear in times of crisis, by 16 + 4 artists from Malaysia, Thailand, the UK, and the US.

Where: 293, Jalan 17/6, Petaling Jaya
When: last day! Open all day until 5pm

Photos by Umar Sharif.

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May 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
ShrineShare: What do we hold sacred? How do we talk to each other in crisis?

Curated by @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social + Sharon Chin + me. Featuring folks like @gatheraroundpjcts.bsky.social @nadhirnor.bsky.social @daniellocke.bsky.social

Digital folder here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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August 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A stamp-print shrine by @daniellocke.bsky.social , about the power in earthly places; about surrendering your hopes and worries to the land; about trust.

For #shrineshare , an art folio and exhibition-in-a-folder about the things we hold sacred in times of crisis.

(Happy bday Daniel!)
November 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
KONGSI KERAMAT / #shrineshare at Temu Pasor / Ipoh International Zine Fest, Day 2:

A selection of photos with folks when Sharon and I remembered to take them. Sorry we didn't get pics with everybody! (It's a tight space; when things get busy we get distracted and forget to document ...)

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July 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Yet there has been six public showings of #shrineshare, in five places across the UK and Malaysia, each happening more or less organically: "Hey this seems fun and easy, let's put it up!"

Sharon's post presents photographs from all these events: smokesignals.sharonchin.com/shrineshare-...

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June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It isn't just us planning and putting together exhibitions of the folio:

#shrineshare in Penang was organised by Jamie Oon, one of the artists in the folio.
The PJ / Klang Valley show was mooted / hosted by KL art collectives Rogue Art and 293.

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June 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Yesterday's set-up for the Section 17, PJ edition of #shrineshare , our travelling show about personal shrines.

At 293, Jalan 17/6

24 May (3pm till late)
25 May (10am to 5pm)

Pls come!

(Portable because everything you see here on the walls---the art, texts, etc---fits in a neat portable folder)
May 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
A tribute to the Folio Geografi we used to have to make in secondary school.

#shrineshare / Kongsi Keramat: 16 artists from Malaysia / Thailand / the UK / the US. Curated by Sharon Chin @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social & I. Supported by the British Council's Connections Through Culture Grant 2024.

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July 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
CORRECTION: there has been *seven* public showings of #shrineshare .

Right now, the folio is on exhibition at the Exeter Phoenix Gallery, in the UK: exeterphoenix.org.uk/events/shrin...

Art made to travel easily. Shrines made to be shared.

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June 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
For the last month I have been working as a printmaker.

This is SHRINESHARE: an art folio with art by sixteen different artists from Malaysia, Thailand, the US, and the UK, about the subject of shrines---the things sacred to them personally.

(Art here by Nadhir Nor and John Powell-Jones)

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September 18, 2024 at 10:50 AM
KONGSI KERAMAT / #shrineshare at Temu Pasor / Ipoh International Zine Fest, Day 1:

Setting up, chilling out. Come find us, if you happen to be in Ipoh this weekend, 25-27 July 2025!

A zine and print-art exhibition featuring 16 artists from all over. Also ongoing: vendors, performances, workshops!
July 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Programme:

FRI 7 MARCH
730pm - Buka Puasa BBQ - bring something halal to share

SAT 8 MARCH
All day - Portal Exhibition
All day - ShrineShare Exhibition
3pm-5pm - TTRPG Playtest
8pm - Portal Ceremony
9pm-1030pm - Readings & Performances - bring something to share (5 - 10mins)

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February 27, 2025 at 3:46 AM
We didn't plan any public exhibitions of #shrineshare when Sharon and @davidblandyrpgs.bsky.social and I conceived of and put together the folio---

But the point was always to make a folder of art that would travel easily, explain itself, and invite others to take it still further.

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June 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@zedecksiew.bsky.social The essay for that Shrines book we're finishing keeps bringing me to your work! ShrineShare was such a cool show.
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It felt right to her, to leave her beach-combing hat. It felt right to leave it under the tree, near its shrine.

#localhuman #localflora #localfauna #shrineshare

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April 6, 2024 at 6:03 AM