ArtLab | Make Your Book Week Costume with Victoria Reichelt

Let your favourite book be the inspiration for your Book Week costume: make a life-size book cover you can wear to become your favourite book!

Acclaimed artist and local treasure Victoria Reichelt, who is our next artist to feature in the Children’s Gallery, is no stranger to the annual Book Week costume and will be on hand to assist you. We’ll provide everything you’ll need for your costume: cardboard book cover and straps, and craft materials for personalising your book including paint pens, coloured paper, scissors, glue, pom poms, googly eyes, stickers and more! 

Artist Bio

Victoria Reichelt studied Fine Art at the Queensland College of Art, graduating in 2005 having completed her Doctor of Visual Arts. In 2013 she won the Sulman Art Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has been shortlisted for a number of major art prizes including the Portia Geach Memorial Award, John Leslie Art Prize, UQ Artists’ Self Portrait Prize, the Gold Award and the Fletcher Jones Art Prize.

Victoria has exhibited internationally at ART16 London (2016), Art Stage Singapore (2013) and the Korean International Art Fair (2011). Her work has been curated into exhibitions at Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, UQ Art Museum and Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. Reichelt’s work is represented in major institutional collections throughout Australia including HOTA Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, Artbank, and Rockhampton Museum of Art.

Recommended for ages 6-12 years (children must be accompanied by a parent or care giver). 

Presented by HOTA, Home of the Arts

Image credit: courtesy of the artist