The Dear Kate exhibition is being held at Launceston Library from 28 November 2024 until 28 February 2025. In association with the exhibition, the artist behind the show Jane Giblin will run workshops to share what she has learned about Kate Ball’s (Mitchell) ink drawings made about the East Coast of Tasmania during the 1860s and 1870s.

Kate’s little sister Sarah spent decades compiling a memorial to Kate’s early death at 31, The Sarah Mitchell Scrapbook, which resides in the archives of The Royal Society of Tasmania in Hobart.

In the workshop Jane will provide a short floor talk about the exhibition and share with you a handmade contemporary version of Sarah Mitchell’s production, The Mitchell Women: Unknown Stories. The original scrapbook, now far too fragile to travel, not only held Kate’s extensive drawing collection but also Sarah’s associated reflections and stories, often handwritten by her devoted niece, Grace Mitchell.

At each venue of the show’s tour, community workshop participants produce work, some of which become a small contribution to the travelling scrapbook. You will be assisted to write and illustrate your own stories in ink and nib, and watercolour. All materials will be provided. Contribution to the scrapbook is entirely voluntary.

Cost is $46 to be paid on the day.

What to bring: Comfortable clothing, a bottle of water, a couple of treasured family or friendship photographs. Jane will take payment on the day, in cash or by card.

Please arrive 5 minutes early.

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