Art Lab: Create an Artist Book
Free, bookings essential
Duration: 3 hrs 30mins
Ages: 13 – 25 years
Art Labs are artist-led workshops connecting young audiences nationally with artists, artmaking and the national collection.
In this online Art Lab, you will join artist Saskia Morris to create your own artist book.
Morris will guide you to bring your artist book to life using a combination of bookmaking, drawing, poetry, experimental narrative and graphic design.
The Art Lab will begin with an examination of works of art by Kiki Smith featured in the exhibition Deep inside my heart.
Learn how Kiki Smith’s work intricately positions the human body as a place where history, identity, politics, and personal experience intersect. Building on this engagement, bring your own personal reflections into your approach to your artist book.
Saskia Morris is a contemporary artist whose work examines how language and technologies of communication convene to distort and amplify our sense of self.
You will need:
- Your own internet-connected computer, laptop or device with webcam and in-built microphone or Bluetooth speaker
- Access to and ability to sign into web platform Zoom.
- Space to work – a clear floor, desk or kitchen table
Materials:
- For the pages: A roll of baking parchment or translucent art paper such as rice paper.
- For the covers: Two sheets of roughly A4 thick cardboard such as mount board, foam board or box board. Ask your local framer if they have any scraps you can use.
Tools:
- For construction: a cutting mat, a spoon to act as bone folder, a craft knife, scissors, a glue stick, a 30cm ruler, a pencil, and a stack of heavy art or cookbooks to act as a book press.
- Your favourite mark-making tools, for example: pencils, crayons, pens or markers.
Other details Ticket holders will receive a Zoom link to access the Art Lab by Thursday, 21 March 2024. Please contact the Gallery on +61 2 6240 6411 or young.people@nga.gov.au if you do not receive the Zoom link.
Deep inside my heart is on display at the National Gallery, 25 Nov 2023 – 19 Mar 2024.
For more information about National Gallery Youth Programs visit our dedicated Youth Programs page.
