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Since 2017, George has ran workshops, solo and collaboratively - 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, HOME, Middlesbrough Arts Weekender, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Factory International, Portraits of Recovery, English National Opera, and Site Gallery.
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, and hosting bimonthly Self Publishing Picnics.
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
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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
Instagram stories workshop for
Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art
with Shy Bairns, 2020
Badgemaking at Factory International with Taxi Cab Industries, 2025
Books (left) and their makers
(below) from the 2025 cohort
of Complete Book Artist at
Hot Bed Press.
Shy Bairns workshop zine
covers, 2019-2020
Map folded zine workshop, online for Turf Gallery with SoTD, 2021
Coptic binding workshop with Ellis Jackson Kroese for Jerwood Arts, 2019
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
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