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Books as Art: Journals as Art

Friday 23 March
2.30pm - 5.30pm
Cost $35 
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This is a creative journaling workshop for writers, designers, artists and anyone wanting to take journaling to the next level. Join artist, Jonathan McBurnie for an exploration of creative journaling. This 3-hour workshop will be fun, liberating and may be just the thing to cure your writer’s block or inspire a new way of making art.

You can see Jonathan McBurnie’s work in The Strip Show.

Jonathan McBurnie graduated with a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2015, and has put his prolific artistic output to good use, producing thirteen solo and 97 group exhibitions since 2003, nationally and internationally. In 2017, McBurnie was subject to his first survey exhibition, Dread Sovereign, at Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville. He has exhibited in such institutions as Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, the State Library of Queensland, Blindside, Alaska Projects, MOP Projects, Kickarts, and National Art School. As a writer, McBurnie has been published in Sneaky, Catalogue, Heaps Gay, Penthouse, and regularly contributes to Eyeline and the Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture, where he is the exhibitions and reviews editor. McBurnie is represented in many public and private collections nationally and internationally, and is currently working on several projects, including a graphic novel, and his next solo exhibition. McBurnie is also the Director of Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, one of Australia’s longest-running regional visual arts organisations. McBurnie is represented by Despard Gallery, Hobart.

A USC Continuing Education program.