Name

Jabberwock Paper Mill.

Culture

Australian

Type

Organisation

Start date

1978

Start place

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia View on map Close map

Occupations

Paper maker

Summary

Located: Australia (TAS).

Context

Australia

Biography

The first art school to develop papermaking courses was the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education (now School of Creative Arts, University of Tasmania) which established the Jabberwock Mill in 1978. The mill was set up and run by the American papermaker Tim Payne until 1984, when Tasmanian Penny Wells took over. An adjunct to the printmaking department, Jabberwock produced commercial quantities of 100 per cent cotton paper and provided facilities for students to experiment in different aspects of ‘paperwork’, the term used to describe works in which paper is ‘no longer merely the background to an image’ but rather ‘an independent means of expression often combining subject, process and support into a single entity’. [see Roger Butler, Printed images by Australian artists 1942-2020, Canberra: NGA, 2021].