The Sketchbook Project 2012
Many artists and art journalists, sketchers and drawers have been participants or at least aware of The Sketchbook Project, an Art House Co Op participant tour of sketchbooks running annually. The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour has just been announced, and signups are now being taken.
Even better news – there will be a shows of the participatory sketchbooks in Melbourne and London next year. This means that Australasian / Pacifica and European Sketchbook Project participants will have the opportunity to see their own sketchbooks in a show closer to home.
Dates and Times for The Sketchbook Project 2012 World Tour :
- October 31st 2011 – signup by this date
- January 31st 2011 – postmark your sketchbook by this date. Send it in.
- April 2012 – tour starts.
Participation this year costs $25. For this, you will receive a blank sketchbook (having chosen a theme out of a range of 40 of them available at the Sketchbook Project website) and additional material. It is then up to you to use your journal as you see fit to meet the theme chosen, staying within the confines of the rules (measurement of the resulting sketchbook).
Once you send your sketchbook off, you will never see it again. However, you have the option at signup to purchase the digitisation of your sketchbook before it goes on tour. For those artists in America, the sketchbooks will tour around all the stops placed on the American continent (which also includes a stop in Vancouver) before ending up permanently at the Brooklyn Art Library. For those in Europe, the sketchbooks will be shown in London. Australasian sketchbooks will be shown in Melbourne – along with mine.
I’m participating in the Sketchbook Project 2012, although have yet to choose a theme for my own sketchbook. I’m selecting between ‘Encyclopedia of’ or ‘Heroes and Villians’. I intend, also, in simply sketching line drawings into my sketchbook, and to incorporate my own interpretations of our local indigneous art – both Australian Aboriginal and my own ethnic New Zealand Maori / Pacific Island artforms. But come the time of working in the book, I’m sure my intentions may well have changed.
I am also joining up my eight year old daughter for the project. I anticipate much competition and fun in filling our pages.
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