LDR zine project

2023 – 2025

Project partner: Hands On Studio

Developed as a professional development initiative for DADAA arts workers and working in partnership with Heads on Studio, Canberra, this national collaborative exchange enables DADAA arts workers and workshop participants to develop zines for, and with, Hands on Studio in Canberra.

The first stage of this project has focused on skill-building workshops for Fremantle and Lancelin staff, looking at zine culture, binding methods, art forms, and developing a workshop delivery structure for DADAA participants.

Then, the first 6 zines created by DADAA Lancelin arts workers and participants were sent to Canberra and returned with added pages and content. These zines told narrative stories using collage and paint that introduced the artists to the Canberra based artists and asked the Canberra artists to respond by telling their stories.

In July 2023, Hands On Studio arts worker and artist Nicci Haynes also visited DADAA Fremantle to give a talk about her own art practice, Hands On Studio, and zine culture. DADAA Fremantle Gallery also exhibited a selection of artist books and zines from Gallery 3 in Byron Bay’s Take Stock exhibition, alongside comic and graphic art works by artists with lived experience of disability.

DADAA staff also travelled to Carnamah, Three Springs, Geraldton, and surrounding areas, to deliver workshops across the Wheatbelt. The primary focus in Geraldton was to present a zine workshop to the DADAA Geraldton based print workshop arts worker and facilitator Lizzy Robinson with the view to include the Geraldton studio arts workers and participants in the zine exchange.

In early 2024 the project secured a dedicated studio space at Fremantle Arts Centre until the end of July 2024.

 

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