Instant Zines! Self-publish Your Ideas with Darren Bryant

Where: Ignite Studios - 60 Crane Street Ballina
Date: Sat 18 April 2026
Time: 10am - 2pm
Age: 16+
Cost: $65 (incl GST)

Learn to share your ideas and produce your own zines with exhibiting artist Darren Bryant. Zines are a form of independent media, originating from the basic need to develop quick, affordable and alternative forms of communication and information-sharing. They are created and distributed by the creator (or creators), driven by passion rather than profit, and produced cheaply. They can be photocopied or printed; small or large; typed or hand-drawn; and on any subject that the creator cares about. Zines also offer a straightforward, quick, and accessible way to create and share artist’s work, as well as to plan or draft a mock-up for a more complex artist’s book.

In this workshop, participants will be guided through the steps to create and produce their own zine to share stories, ideas and/or artworks that are important to them.

Darren Bryant is a Northern Rivers-based visual artist and academic. He is a lecturer in Art and Design at Southern Cross University, with a specialisation in drawing, print media, papermaking, artist books and multiples. His work appears in numerous exhibitions and international collections, and he has received the London Print Studio Prize (UK) and the Printmaking Today Prize (UK).

Darren Bryant’s exhibition The Time Traveller’s Manual is on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery from 5 March to 26 April 2026.

For more information contact the Gallery on 02 6681 0530.

Ignite Studios is a wheelchair accessible venue. Please contact us ahead of time if you have accessibility needs you would like us to be aware of.

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 Image: Pamphlet Stitch #1, Darren Bryant, 2026