Poetic City Workshop - Poetry Paste-Up

Come and create a text-based black-and-white graphic poster, using a line or words from your poetry. You can use an existing poem, or write some new text on the day.

On Saturday afternoon artist and poet Caren will give us a tour of exciting examples of concrete poetry and text-based art, and guide your digital typography, design and layout to create your own black-and-white graphic poster.

The second part of the workshop is on Sunday morning 18 June between 10.30am and midday. We’ll paste up our posters in high-visibility sites in City West - seeing your words go up in the city is an exciting part of the process!

Caren Florance is an artist and writer based at Bega in Yuin Country. Her creative practice is text-heavy, and she often collaborates with artists and publishers.

Using traditional letterpress and bookbinding processes along with more contemporary technologies, she produces diverse works across the book arts spectrum, from zines, artist books and installation work to formal publishing outputs. She is collected by national and international institutions (mostly libraries) and private collectors.

Her most recent commercial vispo volume is Lost in Case (Cordite Books, 2019).