Sketchbook Project

Sharing young people’s creations and stories across WA.

Photo by Sophie Minissale

 

The Sketchbook Project is a collaborative and visual experience that provides an opportunity for young people to share their own personal stories and passions with the wider community across Western Australia.

Tell your own story using a sketchbook provided free of charge by Propel! Each year, we send blank sketchbooks to individuals, libraries, schools, community groups and organisations across WA. Participation is open to all young people aged 12 - 26, who are free to fill their sketchbook with anything that takes their imagination - drawings, photos, poems, painting, cut-outs, collage and more!

This year, all submitted sketchbooks were exhibited as part of the 2023 Youth Week WA KickstART Festival. After the exhibition, the sketchbooks embark on a tour of regional and suburban libraries, sharing your stories and art in an ongoing event called The Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition.

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Registrations for 2024

Registrations for Sketchbook Project 2024 are opening November 10 2023!

For Sketchbook Project 2024, you can reference our INFO SHEET for a step-by-step guide as to how to participate in the project.

The Sketchbook Project 2024 has partnered up with regional and local libraries and health centres that will act as sketchbook hubs where you will be able to collect your blank sketchbook in January as well as return your completed sketchbook in March. Metro based participants can also come into the Propel office located in Northbridge to collect their sketchbooks. Posting sketchbooks are also an option for participants who are unable to visit a sketchbook collection point.

Registrations will close on December 18!

We are excited to announce the following Sketchbook Hubs for 2024!

  • AH Bracks Library (Melville)

  • Albany Library

  • Armadale Library

  • Bunbury Library

  • Busselton Library

  • Carnarvon Library

  • Denmark Library

  • Esperance Library

  • Fremantle Library

  • Geraldton Library

  • headspace Albany

  • headspace Midland

  • headspace Geraldon

  • Mandurah Library

  • Mount Barker Library

  • State Library of WA

  • Youth Focus Metro (Burswood)

  • Youth Focus Meekatharra

 
 

Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition

2023 Itinerary


3 July - 31 July

Esperance Public Library
Windich St, Esperance WA 6450

Bunbury Public Library
2 Parkfield St, Bunbury WA 6230


14 August - 11 September

Whitford Public Library
15 Banks Ave, Hillarys WA 6025

Mount Barker Public Library
Dumas St, Mt Barker ‎ SA 5251


25 September - 23 October

AH Bracks Library + Creative Space
431 Canning Hwy, Melville WA 6157

Albany Public Library
221 York St, Albany WA 6330


6 November - 4 December

Geraldton Regional Library
37 Marine Terrace, Geraldton WA 6530

Carnarvon Library
18 Egan St, Carnarvon WA 6701

Sketchbook 2023 Gallery 

 
 

Further Information

To find out more about The Sketchbook Project or the Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition please contact our Project Officer Rebecca Riggs-Bennett, on 08 9328 5855 or email rebecca@propel.org.au