2023 Creative Journaling Challenge

Nadia Kliendanze
My experience of the journal challenge was so full of excitement and anticipation as to the next challenge! I was quite bereft when it ended! The daily process of thinking about an artwork and then creating it the same day...
Hazel Francis - Winner
The Journaling Challenge came at a time of upheaval, so there was not a consistent process. Ideas: for some of the words the ideas just popped out whilst for others it was a war of nothingness, and then others too...
Laura Canty - Runner Up
  My name is Laura Canty and I loved taking part in the Craft + Design Canberra Creative Journal Challenge. While the challenge was running, searching my emails for the day’s prompt was the first thing I would do each...
Nicole Henry - Highly Commended
    My process was to spend a bit of time each morning reflecting on possible ideas. I’d like to say I was unfettered in my approach, but each prompt ended up being an exercise in deliberation. My aim was...
Alexandra Harwood
I enjoyed so many of the prompts in the Craft ACT Creative Journaling Challenge, so it’s difficult to choose just one. I suppose my favorites' would have to be the ones where I feel that I pushed myself and created...
Ashley Henderson
Valerie Kirk
Valerie Kirk is a Scottish born Australian artist who explores ideas about moving between two countries, identity, place and time. She completed a degree and post graduate studies at Edinburgh College of Art, then came to Australia to weave at...
Sally Black
Breakfast is a special time for me. I am relaxed and centred. On reading the daily prompt my mind was free to explore, play with ideas, possibilities and sketching locations. I use watercolour and pen in a small portable kit...
Meredith Barnes
I undertook the journaling challenge this year to try and reinvigorate my art practice and look after my wellbeing while I was on maternity leave. I enjoyed the challenge of reading a prompt word in the morning and brainstorming different...
Mary-Lou Nugent
This is the first time I’d attempted a challenge such as this and I found it immensely rewarding. I tried very hard to introduce new processes and to explore a range of media each day, from textiles (my own hand...
Margot Date
The Creative Journal Challenge is one of my favourite art activities. I love the surprise of receiving a single word and having to come up with my interpretation of it that day. As soon as I read the prompt I...
Lucy Laino
I have always been creative, loved art, made art. When I was younger, I had an amazing art teacher in primary school, her name was Miss Whiteoak and when I grew up, I wanted to be an art teacher just...
Lisa Stevenson
November was a bit of a difficult month I recall, there was covid overtaking the house, and squeezing time in for the journal challenge, or any time for myself was an undertaking. Grabbing moments when I could, I responded quickly...
Johneen Hibbert
This was my first experience of participating in an artistic journaling challenge and it captivated me from day one. I so looked forward to checking my email at 6:00am to discover the prompt word of the day. The primary materials...
Jannene White
Each day I looked forward to the daily prompt and then the bubbling of ideas that this generated. I was inspired to have a cohesive element to the journal and used bold and bright fluorescent paint plus stripes and ripped...
Helen Heslop
Faith Kennedy-Graham
My work throughout the Creative Journaling Competition 2022 consisted of photography, digital creation, and analogue collaging. Each day, the participants were given a prompt, a theme that had to inspire and structure a journal entry. I can’t draw, maybe in...
Elizabeth Misek
For me, this challenge was quite symbolic. It was a turning point for me, following a path to become a children’s picture book illustrator and to let go of worrying if my work looked perfect “as such” and just to...
Cheryl Johnson
Cheryl strengthened her analogue collage technique (using paper and scalpel rather than digital collage) and her drawing skills (not something she usually does) to respond to the daily prompts first thing every morning. She started with a quick mind mapping...
Sarah Earle
This was my second year participating in the Design Canberra Journaling Challenge so I really wanted to challenge myself and let loose with a variety of mediums. Like any daily challenge, the anticipation starts from the moment you wake up...