From raw materials to a finished book: this three-day masterclass will teach you how to create a hand-made, hand-bound book.
Join artist Christina Graham for this unique opportunity to create something beautiful and lasting. This series of workshops is designed to give new life to waste paper, while also utilising scrap fabrics and materials. At the end of the workshop, participants will have their own hand-made A5 art book and the skills to replicate the process themselves.
About the masterclass
This series will run during November 2024 over three sessions and participants will need to attend all sessions to complete their journals. The workshops will be held at the Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road.
- Workshop 1: Making the recycled paper: Saturday 16 November 2024, 10am-3pm
- Workshop 2: Preparing and binding the paper: Saturday 23 November 2024, 10am-3pm
- Workshop 3: Journal construction: Sunday 24 November 2024, 10am-3pm
All workshop materials are included.
Please note: This workshop series is perfect for beginners, or those with some experience, who are 15+ in age (under 18 must be accompanied by a participating adult). This exclusive program has limited spaces available.
About the artist
Christina Graham is a lutruwita/Tasmanian artist and illustrator. Strongly drawn to the documentation of natural occurrences and drawn to an exploration of the space between people, nature and bodies of land. Inspired by her island home, its unique environment and wild places, Christina intricately paints the flora and fauna this inspires. Christina is a traditional artist, working with watercolour, gouache and ink. In addition to her painting practice, Christina creates her own paper from recycled scraps and binds the paper into beautifully formed art books.
About the exhibition
A book contains words and information on pages, bound together and protected by a cover… At least, that's what we generally understand a book to be
Unbound challenges this perception – and reimagines the many forms a book could take.
This exhibition focuses on two types of books: artists' books and pop-up books.
Artists' books are works of art that utilise the book form. Marvel at a variety of creative categories, such as altered, animated, concertina, illustrated and sculptural books. Unbound marks the first artists' books exhibition at QVMAG in over 40 years.
Pop-up books contain three-dimensional features that can be activated by pull tabs, tunnels, or flaps – or simply by opening a page. Explore worlds of animals and creatures, history and geography, literature and fiction, science, technology and space, and even TV and movie genres – each rendered into intricate and inventive dioramas.
Discover the book form as you've never seen it – or imagined it – before.
Unbound
Museum at Inveresk, 2 Invermay Road, Launceston
5 October 2024 — 2 February 2025
Free entry | Open daily | 10am to 4pm
Image: Christina Graham