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Learn to bookbind! Try this fun workshop with Sharon Peoples where you'll learn all about making concertina books.Dates: Sunday 8, February (one day workshop)
Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm
Location: NatureArt Lab, M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith, ACT
About the course:
The books you'll be making in this class take flight from simple concertina books – you might like to bring in images, a poem, recipe or perhaps use paper decorated from another class.
You'll begin with a formal concertina book with hard covers and then work through variations such as slotted concertina, double concertina and interwoven concertina. These can become excellent forms for your own artwork made in other classes. You'll also be shown how to join papers together to make long concertina books. In the second half of the class, you'll make a flag book with hard covers.
About the tutor:
Sharon Peoples has worked as an artist in Canberra for over 25 years, exhibiting nationally and internationally as well as taking on commissioned work. She has had twelve solo exhibitions since 2010, the most recent were ‘Garden Promenade’ Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, Oct (2024) and ‘From the Highest Tree’, Avid Gallery, Wellington NZ (2023). Sharon spends much time wandering and wondering about gardens. From her own domestic garden to the local bushland and further afield to surrounding national parks, she is energised and draws inspiration
by walking in these environments. In recent years a gradual shift to include bookbinding and making has occurred. One highlight of this activity is having her handbound book in the exhibition Scripta manent VII “In principio The Word in Arvo Pärt’s Music”, at the Estonian History Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, Oct 2025. Currently,
her bird-related objects are exhibited at the King Island Gallery where she did a residency last year.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
M16 Artspace 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Australian Capital Territory 2603, 21 Blaxland Cres, Griffith ACT 2603, Australia, Narrabundah
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