Workshops, 2017+
George has ran workshops, solo and collaboratively, since 2017 - teaching zine making, bookbinding, print making, risograph printing and box making while feeding into a collaborative practice and various project outcomes.
Their clients have included TATE, Jerwood Arts, BALTIC, UK New Artists, HOME, Middlesbrough Arts Weekender, Bloomberg New Contemporaries and Sunderland University. George is currently working at Manchester School of art co-running the bookbinding department, while teaching The Complete Book Artist evening course at Hot Bed Press.
Participants zines from Create Your Own Portal,
online for Liverpool Independent Biennial, 2021
Taught zine
examples, 2020
If you are interested in arranging a workshop please email georgegracegibson@gmail.com! <3
Introduction to Rubber Stamping workshop at Hot Bed Press, 2024
Zine workshop with Manchester Artist Teachers Collective, 2024
Photos by Shirlaine Forrest
Collaborative outcome from a risograph zine workshop with Foundation Press at Sunderland University, 2018.
Example from a screenprinting x book arts
workshop at Hot Bed Press, 2024
Map folded zine workshop, online for Turf Gallery with SoTD, 2021
Shy Bairns workshop zine
covers, 2019-2020
Instagram stories workshop for Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art with Shy Bairns, 2020
Pre-bound book from
a masterclass with Shy
Bairns at Manchester
School of Art, 2019
Coptic binding workshop with Izzy Kroese for Jerwood Arts, 2019
Binding a collaborative zine, made with MA Fine Art Students from University of Sunderland on the floor of The Star and Shadow Cinema for Festival Of The Not, 2018
Printing a collaborative photocopier zine for Digital Collections, a zine making workshop at The Tetley with Shy Bairns as part
of The House That Heals The Soul exhibition, 2017