Maketank is hosting an exhibition exploring local independent book and art creators including a weekend of storytelling, illustration and book-making workshops from Tuesday 2 to Saturday 13 May.
The exhibition includes books, prints, videos and installations by an extensive line-up of local independent book and art creators.
These include illustrators Beth Welby, Imogen Harvey-Lewis and George Goodwin, storytellers Katy Cawkwell and Isabella Necessity, and artists Claire Le Day, Siobhan Martin and Val Jones.
Feminist production company Scary Little Girls will present the Greenham Women Everywhere visual, oral and written Greenham Common women’s peace camp archive, and Devon Ukrainian Association will exhibit photographers including Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov.
Weekend workshops offer storytelling, illustration and book-making activities for all age groups.
Katy Cawkwell is hosting an experimental, participatory myth-making workshop on Friday 12 May, and an Inky Fingers Collage Club invites participants to use illustrations rescued from old books to make cartoon-strip stories about the futures they would like to on Saturday 13 May, which is World Collage Day.
Also on Saturday, Siobhan Martin is offering concertina and pamphlet workshops that explore ways of using different mediums and materials to create books, Inky Fingers is running create your own notebook workshops and Katy Cawkwell is inviting complete beginners to learn how to tell a traditional story from myth, folktale or legend without notes or script.
The Make Your Own Book festival runs from Tuesday 2 to Saturday 13 May 2023 at Maketank and is open every day from 10am-5pm.
The exhibition is free and workshop costs range from £0 to £15. A book and art fair is taking place alongside with work by local independent creators for sale.
More information and bookings via the Maketank website.
