Have you accumulated sketchbook after sketchbook overtime to sketch ideas, self express or just doodle in?
“From Davinci, to Dickinson, to Hemmingway, to Kahlo, sketchbooks have provided a space for the greatest works and stories of our time to grow”.
How would you like to showcase a sketchbook in an exhibition?
The Sketchbook Project is an ongoing collaborative creative project that takes place every year in conjunction with the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival. It is an opportunity for young people, aged 12-26, to boldly experiment and develop their creative thoughts and capacity for self-expression, and to share this with their communities.
We encourage drawings, collages, photographs, and paintings; poems and short stories; family recipes, historical retellings, scientific formulae, experiments, embroidery and practically anything that one may imagine.
All completed sketchbooks will be exhibited during the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival (10– 17 April
2025), before heading on tour with the Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition. This exhibition will tour WA-wide to spaces that have acted as Sketchbook Hubs
Like to join in?
Follow the steps below to register for a sketchbook!
Register
Complete the registration form by Sunday 27 October 2024. You will be
able to select your preferred sketchbook collection and return point from a list
of participating library hubs – Success Libraries being one of them.
You can register from the website HERE
Collect
You will be notified via email or SMS when your sketchbook is ready, this
should be in Mid-November 2024
Once notified, you can collect a blank sketchbook from the Propel office, or
from us at Success Library. If neither option is available to you, contact us and we
may be able to post it.
Create
Fill your sketchbook with whatever your heart desires! We want to see
drawings, paintings, sketches, intricate math formulas, recipes, origami,
poetry or collages – feel free to express yourself in a way that is unique and
authentic to you.
Submit
Return and submit your completed sketchbook.
Please return your sketchbook to a participating hub or to our Propel Office by
Monday 10 March 2025 to be part of the exhibition.
Exhibit
The Sketchbook Exhibition at the State Library in April 2025.
After the Youth Week WA KickstART Festival, your sketchbook will be part of
the Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition, touring public venues across regional
and suburban WA from July until December 2025.
Return
Your sketchbook will be returned to you in February 2026 once the
Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition has completed its statewide tour.
For further enquiries please contact the Propel Youth Arts WA Project
Officer, Rebecca Riggs-Bennett at rebecca@propel.org.au or
call 08 9328 5855.
