Memory Postcards with Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles
Where: Ignite Studios - 60 Crane Street Ballina
Date: Saturday 14 November 2026
Time: 10am - 1pm
Age: 18+
Cost: $15 (tools and materials included)
What familiar objects exist in your mind even when they no longer exist in reality?
This workshop explores memories and objects in relation to experiences of loss through the simple medium of a postcard. The artists especially welcome participants who have been impacted in any way by flooding or other climate events in the Northern Rivers region.
During this workshop, participants will use paper to build a piece of furniture from their past, then photograph and take home a postcard-sized print of their memory. The artists will provide templates as a guide for participants to learn some sculptural papercraft and modelmaking skills as well as photography and lighting skills.
Participants will also learn how to use photogrammetry to scan their paper sculpture to turn it into a 3D digital object which can be viewed using augmented reality.
Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles exhibition The World Came Flooding In is on display at the Northern Rivers Community Gallery from 15 October – 6 December 2026.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
Artist Bio
With a shared passion for stop-motion animation, storytelling and technology, Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine have a 20+ year career creating elaborate interactive artworks, moving short films and unique immersive installations which have been celebrated all over the world.
Their works have premiered at film festivals including Cannes (where they were awarded a Special Mention), Venice, Rotterdam, Chicago and Sundance. Their installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally including at GOMA, MONA, NGV, Art Gallery of NSW, Ars Electronica, Linz, the ICA, London, and at the Seoul New Media Biennale. Their installation You Were In My Dream won the 2010 Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award. Their VR film Passenger won the Virtual Reality Award - Best Film at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival. Their Augmented Reality work Night Creatures won the 2023 AIDC award for best Immersive/Interactive Documentary.
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.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.
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Image: Still from The World Came Flooding In, VR Installation by Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine, 2025. Image courtesy of Flim Camp.