Me as Archive: Zine Making Workshop

Join our workshop and transform your favourite memories into a unique zine using collage, drawing, writing, and craft techniques

In an age of digitisation, where our photos and memories live mostly on our phones, this zine-making workshop invites you to slow down and rediscover the joy of working with your hands. Led by three artists and designers, together we’ll reimagine and materialise our digital traces into handmade archival zines.

In this two-hour workshop, you’ll transform your favourite memories into a unique zine using collage, drawing, writing, and craft techniques. Magazines, markers, fabric, and coloured papers will be available. You are also welcome to bring your own printed photographs, images (up to 4 x 4 cm) and stickers—or anything else you’d like to personalise your own zine.

No experience is needed. Join us to make, reflect, and play, and leave with a tangible keepsake of your own stories.

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Curated by Austin Wang, Benny Xu, Sharon Chiang, and Sky Zhou

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ARTIST FACILITATORS

Harrison Mäe

Harrison Mäe is an artist living and working on the unceded lands of the Bidjigal, Gadigal, and Dharawal clans of Dharug Ngurra. Working fluidly between printmaking, drawing, and moving image, Harrison’s practice considers how we navigate grief, examining the role of the ‘line’ in conceptualising personal and environmental rupture.

Lucrecia Carter

Lucrecia Carter’s design practice draws from her cultural identity to offer pathways for navigating and reconciling multiple identities in contemporary Australia. Her new project ‘Living Labyrinths’ is a multi-sensory installation incorporating sound, animation, and a walkable spiral labyrinth which merges pre-colonial Filipino Batok tattoo motifs with Celtic symbolism.

Mei Lin Meyers

Mei Lin Meyers is a disabled, queer, trans and Chinese-Anglo artist who lives on unceded Wangal Land. Through retrofitting found and familial objects, Mei Lin embraces sensorial, ancestral, and embodied ways of being and knowing, playfully working across drawing, assemblage, ceramics, and installation.

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This program is presented in conjunction with The Annual 2025, UNSW School of Art & Design Graduate Exhibition. Hear from the next generation of creative practitioners in this dynamic program curated by the Master of Curating & Cultural Leadership cohort.

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Image courtesy of Mei Lin Meyers.