Sensory Sensitivity and Visual Impairment in Print Workshop

Explore how artist publications can be conceived, designed and produced with awareness of sensory sensitivity and visual impairment.

This two-hour workshop will focus on how visual, tactile and material choices in print affect perception and experience. Participants will consider how factors such as printing method, language, colour, paper choice, binding and sequencing, can either exclude or invite different ways of seeing and reading. Rather than treating access as an afterthought, this workshop encourages participants to integrate sensory awareness as an essential part of their publishing practice.

Through discussion and examining a variety of artist publications, this workshop will address both practical and ethical questions around accessibility in print, including working with visual impairment, neurodiversity and sensory overwhelm. Participants will explore how thoughtful design and print decisions can deepen intimacy, encourage slow reading, and create alternative modes of engagement without compromising artistic intention.

This new experimental and interactive workshop invites participants to think about a printed project, not as a fixed visual outcome, but as a multisensory, relational object-turned-space, shaped by care, attention and visibility.

Originally conceptualised as an optional add-on module to Creatives in Publishing: Binding a Path to Being Published and Self-Publishing, this workshop with artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, is suitable for artists and writers at all stages who want to make more intentional, informed and playful decisions when preparing work for publication.

Participants are encouraged to bring questions, works-in-progress or ideas they are developing.

An organic herbal tea break will be provided.