What is an artist's book?

An artist’s book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the form or function of the “book” as inspiration. Artists’ books embrace a range of approaches often experimenting with different materials to offer new ideas and interpretations of the world.

Workshop with Julia Kennedy-Bell

Sunday 27 October, 1 – 3pm at Manly Library in the Creative Library.

Join artist Julia Kennedy-Bell as she shares her techniques to create your own simple style concertina book. Decorate with your favourite stencils using a variety of recycled materials.

Limited spaces, bookings essential.

Ages 18+

This workshop is suitable for beginners.

All materials are provided.

Fully accessible space.

Julia Kennedy-Bell - My practice so far has sought to resolve formal oppositions via abstraction. As well as the interpretation of the many and varied results and their associations to meanings and references in the continuum of personal experience, history and culture and the contemporary context. This is explored through a variety of media such as paintings, drawing, ceramics and paper installation. Of particular concern is developing my own personal language that has a set of its own differential marks, values and colours. These qualities of difference impart sensations and associations and become sites of interaction between the logical, the emotional and of the sensory and perception. This also concerns the way in which meanings are created as well as their absences.
https://www.juliakbell.com/

Browse the Northern Beaches Library Artist Book Collection here.

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Enquiries: libraryprograms@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au