The Sketchbook Project 2012

Fantastic news today – my entry for the Sketchbook Project 2012 has been digitalised!

If you haven’t already heard about this wonderful initiative, then I must fill you in. Its another project set up by the visionary Art House Co-op (I’ve also been involved in their photo project The Meal). They describe the Sketchbook Project as being “like a concert tour, but with sketchbooks”. In brief, you register for the project, they send you a blank sketchbook to fill with whatever creative delights take your fancy, you return it by the deadline, and then they take the sketchbooks around the US, Canada, London and Melbourne, as a touring exhibition. At the end of 2012, they all return to the home of the Art House Co-op, the Brooklyn Art Library, where they become part of their permanent collection for people to come and browse as they please.

When my very talented friend Harri Le Claire told me about the project I knew I had to do it, and subsequently spent most of my spare time in Autumn and Winter 2011-12 huddled over my sketchbook (which is on the theme of Hope), scribbling and painting and sticking and generally having a grand old time. I finally sent it off in January and was thrilled to get the email to say they’d received it. It was an optional extra to have it added to their comprehensive digital library, where you can browse sketchbooks from this and previous projects, and today I found out that I’m in!

The tour comes to London from 12th-28th October and will be based at Canada Water Library. Can’t wait to go and see my entry again and spend some happy hours looking at some of the others.

If you’d like to see my sketchbook for yourself then check it out here.