Hand to Hand - New creative space for Works on Paper

Launching Hand to Hand - a space dedicated to artists and groups who work with paper. This proposed space on Ash Street will act as a creative hub, giving artists a platform for creative projects and workshops.

This space, dedicated to works on paper, would not only serve artists who dedicate their practice to this often overlooked medium, but also would allow for the Sydney community to get a behind the scenes view of paper focused art making.

The Hand to Hand studio would be a multi purpose space, with the primary focus of representing and facilitating the practice of artists and members of the general public who have an interest (whether discovered or undiscovered) in working with paper.

This medium has many more interpretations than those that first come to mind.

Works on paper include:

- Printmaking

- Drawing

- Embossing

- Zine making

- Artists books

- Illustrators

- Sewing and appliqué on paper

- Paper sculpture/ origami

- Collage

- Paper making, dying and colouration

- Stenciling

- Model making

- Stop motion animation

- Magazines

- Puppets

To create a space to represent and facilitate this multifaceted practice would be invaluable to the art community. Furthermore, working with paper is a cost efficient, relatively mess free and easily taught practice, which would enable members of the community to become involved with forums, studios, classes and exhibitions.

We see this space as a multidisciplinary venue, a gallery/ studio/ zine library by day, which can transform into a white walled blank canvas for opening nights or installations. On Saturdays it can become a workshop space for printmaking/ zine making/ book binding classes. On Thursdays, a drawing venue for tutored night classes. Furthermore, it can be booked as a space for artist collectives, providing a central location to get together and share ideas. It has the potential to be a forum location, with speakers and demonstrators from across Sydney and Australia.

This space would create a meeting point to provide artists with a central location to meet, share ideas and practice together, and a linking point between Sydney-siders and the arts community. We see business people coming into Hand to Hand on their lunch breaks, browsing through the works on display, flicking through the zines and chatting to the artists working on their latest masterpiece. Hand to Hand will be a cultural hub, a meeting point for all walks of life to indulge in the visual arts.