Go behind the scenes with visual artist and papermaker Joanna Gair at our next free floor talk.
Join us in conversation at the Museum at Inveresk with visual artist Joanna Gair to explore her work as a papermaker.
Explore the practice that led to her involvement in Unbound, as she shares her techniques for creating custom paper, including the bespoke paper designed specifically for the exhibition labels.
About the artist
Joanna Gair is a multifaceted visual artist, and papermaker living and working in Devonport, North-west Tasmania.
After graduating with a first-class degree in Visual Art from the South Australian School of Art, in 1993, she established her studio in North-west Scotland in 1999, since then, she has blended her skills as a visual artist with the ancient craft of papermaking, forging a career marked by creativity, innovation, and sustainability.
Throughout her career, Joanna Gair has continuously pushed the boundaries of paper as an artform. She specializes in producing papers made from 100% post-consumer, recycled textile waste combined with Tasmanian native plants. These distinctive papers serve as the foundation for her sculptural works, which delve into themes of botany, memory, provenance, water, and pattern, while paying homage to the venerable traditions of papermaking itself.
Joanna’s work can be found in around the world, and her Eco Greeting range of prints and greeting cards are available from select retailers around Tasmania, including the QVMAG shop.
About the exhibition
A book contains words and information on pages, bound together and protected by a cover… At least, that’s what we generally understand a book to be.
Unbound challenges this perception – and reimagines the many forms a book could take.
This exhibition focuses on two types of books: artists’ books and pop-up books.
Artists’ books are works of art that utilise the book form. Marvel at a variety of creative categories, such as altered, animated, concertina, illustrated and sculptural books. Unbound marks the first artists’ books exhibition at QVMAG in over 40 years.
Pop-up books contain three-dimensional features that can be activated by pull tabs, tunnels, or flaps – or simply by opening a page. Explore worlds of animals and creatures, history and geography, literature and fiction, science, technology and space, and even TV and movie genres – each rendered into intricate and inventive dioramas.
Discover the book form as you’ve never seen it – or imagined it – before.
Unbound | Museum at Inveresk
2 Invermay Road, Launceston
4 October 2024 – 2 February 2025
Free entry | Open daily, 10am to 4pm