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 2024 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 2025
Fill out a sketchbook for Sketchbook Project!
For Sketchbook Project 2025, you can reference this INFO SHEET for a step-by-step guide as to how to participate in the project.
The Sketchbook Project partners 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 November 2024 and return your completed sketchbook in March 2025. Metro based participants can also come into the Propel office located in Northbridge to collect their sketchbooks. Posting sketchbooks is also an option for participants who are unable to visit a sketchbook collection point.
We are so excited to announce the participating hubs for 2025:
We are so pleased to say that we have 17 participating libraries and 5 participating Youth Focus centres! They are:
AH Bracks Library (Melville)
Albany Library
Beechboro Library
Bunbury Library
Busselton Library
Carnarvon Library & Art Gallery
Denmark Library
Donnybrook Communty Library
Esperance Library
Exmouth Library
Fremantle Library
Geraldton Regional Library
Merredin Library
Mirrabooka Library
State Library of WA
Success Library
Whitford Library
headspace Albany
Metro Youth Focus (Burswood)
headspace Geraldton
headspace Midland
headspace Northam
Registrations will close on October 27!
Travelling Sketchbook Exhibition
Check out the sketchbooks from 2024 at the following libraries!
2024 Tour
1 July - 14 July 2024
Albany Public Library
221 York St, Albany WA
29 July - 11 August 2024
Denmark Public Library
20-16 Stickland St, Denmark WA
26 August - 8 September 2024
Bunbury Public Library
2 Parkfield St, Bunbury WA
23 September - 6 October 2024
AH Bracks Library + Creative Space
431 Canning Hwy, Melville WA
21 October - 3 November 2024
Carnarvon Library & Art Gallery
18 Egan St, Carnarvon WA
18 November - 1 December 2024
Geraldton Regional Library
37 Marine Terrace, Geraldton WA
Sketchbook 2024 Gallery
Photos taken by Sophie Minissale.
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