Upcoming Workshops
* Limited to 6 places, for plenty of one-on-one time.
* All paper, printing and binding provided.
* 10am–4pm daily (with a 1-hour lunch break)
In this two-day hands-on workshop, you’ll arrive with a laptop, some prints and digital files—and leave with a fully designed, printed, and hand-bound 60-page artist book. The finished book will be approximately A5 in size and coptic bound with a simple hard cover.
Day one begins with a discussion on what makes an art book, followed by layout, design, editing, and sequencing exercises. After lunch, you’ll dive into InDesign or Xara to create a draft layout of your book.
On day two, you’ll receive feedback, refine your draft, and print your book in-studio. After lunch, we’ll bind the pages using a 5-section coptic stitch, then trim and document your finished book.
This workshop is open to anyone with 30–60 pieces of ready artwork (illustration, photography, poetry, writing, etc). No design or bookmaking experience is needed.
You’ll need:
- A laptop with InDesign or Xara installed
- Digital files of your work
- Basic comfort using your laptop (no spares available)
We welcome artists from all backgrounds—this is a practical, beginner-friendly workshop focused on turning your art into a beautiful physical book.
Matt Dunne runs Tall Poppy Press. Before that he made his own books by hand and has been exploring book binding and book making since 2016. He loves teaching and every workshop is friendly, supportive, full of laughs and joy. We want every single participant to leave feeling happy and excited!
* All materials provided.
* Open to everyone - no experience required.
Taught out of our Brunswick studio, this is a 6 hour workshop (including a 1h lunch break) that runs from 10am-3pm.
In this workshop you'll learn to make three types of books that are a bit playful and unusual.
We'll start with a 'book tag' concertina - making a soft cover and then embedding a folded book inside.
Before lunch we'll then make a french fold stab bound book, which has a very unique feeling.
After lunch we'll make a single section hard cover book. This will involve making a cover first, then sewing blank pages into the spine. The workshop is designed for anyone and everyone - if you've never made a book or sewn before you will be welcomed and helped. We limit places to 8 people so that you can get lots of one-on-one attention.
Each participant will leave with three blank books they have made themselves.
* Limited to 6 places, for plenty of one-on-one time.
* Open to everyone - no experience required.
* All paper, printing and binding provided.
Taught out of our Brunswick studio, this is a 5 hour workshop (including a 1h lunch break) that runs from 10am-3pm.
In this workshop you'll learn three binding techiques: pamphlet stictch, concertina and single section hardcover binding. With these you'll be able to create a range of book types - from sketchbooks to books that are handmade art objects.
Matt Dunne runs Tall Poppy Press. Before that he made his own books by hand and has been exploring book binding and book making since 2016. He loves teaching and every workshop is friendly, supportive, full of laughs and joy. We want every single participant to leave feeling happy and excited!
This is a four part workshop that will enable each participant to self-publish successfully in 2026.
The dates are October 11, October 25, November 15 and November 29.
Participants will learn about intentions, editing, sequencing, designing, dummy making, marketing, selling online, in-person selling, books as career builders and look at 10+ case studies.
Each participant will leave with a handmade dummy, a business plan and a timeline for 2026.
Due to this workshop being fairly deep, feel free to email us at hello@tallpoppypress.xyz for a complete information pack.
Matt Dunne runs Tall Poppy Press. Before that he made his own books by hand and has been exploring book binding and book making since 2016. More importantly, he loves teaching and every workshop is friendly, supportive, full of laughs and joy. We want every single participant to leave feeling happy and excited!
* Limited to 6 places, so that there's plenty of one-on-one time.
This is a two part workshop that will help participants learn about the publishing industry.
The first part is taught online and will focus on industry and practice. From approaching puiblishers, pitching work, using a book to further your goals as a creative, seeing your book succeed and understanding how to avoid common pitfalls, we look behind the curtain at the 'how' of publishing and self-publishing.
Come to learn what you should know before making a book, how to appropriate budget, and learn from existing projects that have succeeded, and a few that haven't.
The second part is a 1-on-1 session where each participant will have a mentoring session with Matt Dunne. In this session, Matt will review your current work and provide some advice about where to next, the aim of this is to provided tailored, specific advice, allow you to ask in-depth questions and help you leave with a clear plan for what's next.
Part 1: September 16, 6-10pm AEST
Part 2: At a time of your choosing
Open to all visual artists - all you'll need is existing work to show in the one-on-one.
Matt Dunne runs Tall Poppy Press. Before that he made his own books by hand and has been exploring book binding and book making since 2016. HIs publishing output has been featured in the Guardian, the Washington Post, Stern Crime and Yoghurt Magazine. He has had solo exhibitions and has had books sold around the world.
More importantly, he loves teaching and every workshop is friendly, supportive, full of laughs and joy. We want every single participant to leave feeling happy and excited!
This workshop takes place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October in our Brunswick studio.
Split evenly between creative development and planning to succeed, this workshop is aimed to help any artist who is aiming to self-publish in 2026.
In the mornings the workshop will focus on creating a book - providing guidelines and advice to each participant and culminating in a dummy that tests ideas. Participants will learn about design, layout, collaboration, paper choice, printing types and cover design.
In the afternoons, the workshop will focus on the business side of self-publishing. Participants will learn how to determine audience size, plan for success, create a meaningful budget, select printers and leave with a quote for their book and a plan for release.
About our workshops
We run a range of workshops out of our Melbourne studio. Additionally, we are able to come to you and teach workshops at universities, TAFEs, high schools, arts centers and festivals. We have tailored workshops for a range of clients including: Photobook New Zealand, Whitecliffe College, Photography Studies College, Art Gold (Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie), Perth Centre of Photography, and many more.Workshops are led by Matt Dunne who, with a background in teaching, creates an enjoyable, supportive and successful space where anyone and everyone will learn a lot and leave with a lot of skills, takeaways and knowledge.Sign up to our mailing list be be notified of future workshops:
"A fulfilling weekend adventure inside the world of photo bookmaking and publishing. Generous, exploratory and fun."
"I found the book making workshop really accessible, and enjoyed the hands-on aspect. It helped me understand the publishing process a bit better, and that you don’t need to have super-expensive resources to produce shareable works. Matt is a great facilitator too, whose advice on sequencing and editing alone was invaluable."
"I enjoyed learning about Matt's artistic practice and how he worked his projects into book format. I also loved looking through his personal collection of photo books, and experimenting with different binding techniques and papers, I could happily participate in this workshop multiple times because of how much there is to explore."
Upcoming Workshops
* Limited to 6 places, for plenty of one-on-one time.
* All paper, printing and binding provided.
* 10am–4pm daily (with a 1-hour lunch break)
In this two-day hands-on workshop, you’ll arrive with a laptop, some prints and digital files—and leave with a fully designed, printed, and hand-bound 60-page artist book. The finished book will be approximately A5 in size and coptic bound with a simple hard cover.
Day one begins with a discussion on what makes an art book, followed by layout, design, editing, and sequencing exercises. After lunch, you’ll dive into InDesign or Xara to create a draft layout of your book.
On day two, you’ll receive feedback, refine your draft, and print your book in-studio. After lunch, we’ll bind the pages using a 5-section coptic stitch, then trim and document your finished book.
This workshop is open to anyone with 30–60 pieces of ready artwork (illustration, photography, poetry, writing, etc). No design or bookmaking experience is needed.
You’ll need:
- A laptop with InDesign or Xara installed
- Digital files of your work
- Basic comfort using your laptop (no spares available)
We welcome artists from all backgrounds—this is a practical, beginner-friendly workshop focused on turning your art into a beautiful physical book.
* All materials provided.
* Open to everyone - no experience required.
Taught out of our Brunswick studio, this is a 6 hour workshop (including a 1h lunch break) that runs from 10am-3pm.
In this workshop you'll learn to make three types of books that are a bit playful and unusual.
We'll start with a 'book tag' concertina - making a soft cover and then embedding a folded book inside.
Before lunch we'll then make a french fold stab bound book, which has a very unique feeling.
After lunch we'll make a single section hard cover book. This will involve making a cover first, then sewing blank pages into the spine. The workshop is designed for anyone and everyone - if you've never made a book or sewn before you will be welcomed and helped. We limit places to 8 people so that you can get lots of one-on-one attention.
Each participant will leave with three blank books they have made themselves.
* Limited to 6 places, for plenty of one-on-one time.
* Open to everyone - no experience required.
* All paper, printing and binding provided.
Taught out of our Brunswick studio, this is a 5 hour workshop (including a 1h lunch break) that runs from 10am-3pm.
In this workshop you'll learn three binding techiques: pamphlet stictch, concertina and single section hardcover binding. With these you'll be able to create a range of book types - from sketchbooks to books that are handmade art objects.
This is a four part workshop that will enable each participant to self-publish successfully in 2026.
The dates are October 11, October 25, November 15 and November 29.
Participants will learn about intentions, editing, sequencing, designing, dummy making, marketing, selling online, in-person selling, books as career builders and look at 10+ case studies.
Each participant will leave with a handmade dummy, a business plan and a timeline for 2026.
Due to this workshop being fairly deep, feel free to email us at hello@tallpoppypress.xyz for a complete information pack.
* Limited to 6 places, so that there's plenty of one-on-one time.
This is a two part workshop that will help participants learn about the publishing industry.
The first part is taught online and will focus on industry and practice. From approaching puiblishers, pitching work, using a book to further your goals as a creative, seeing your book succeed and understanding how to avoid common pitfalls, we look behind the curtain at the 'how' of publishing and self-publishing.
Come to learn what you should know before making a book, how to appropriate budget, and learn from existing projects that have succeeded, and a few that haven't.
The second part is a 1-on-1 session where each participant will have a mentoring session with Matt Dunne. In this session, Matt will review your current work and provide some advice about where to next, the aim of this is to provided tailored, specific advice, allow you to ask in-depth questions and help you leave with a clear plan for what's next.
Part 1: September 16, 6-10pm AEST
Part 2: At a time of your choosing
Open to all visual artists - all you'll need is existing work to show in the one-on-one.
This workshop takes place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of October in our Brunswick studio.
Split evenly between creative development and planning to succeed, this workshop is aimed to help any artist who is aiming to self-publish in 2026.
In the mornings the workshop will focus on creating a book - providing guidelines and advice to each participant and culminating in a dummy that tests ideas. Participants will learn about design, layout, collaboration, paper choice, printing types and cover design.
In the afternoons, the workshop will focus on the business side of self-publishing. Participants will learn how to determine audience size, plan for success, create a meaningful budget, select printers and leave with a quote for their book and a plan for release.
About our workshops
We run a range of workshops out of our Melbourne studio. Additionally, we are able to come to you and teach workshops at universities, TAFEs, high schools, arts centers and festivals. We have tailored workshops for a range of clients including: Photobook New Zealand, Whitecliffe College, Photography Studies College, Art Gold (Kalgoorlie and Coolgardie), Perth Centre of Photography, and many more.Workshops are led by Matt Dunne who, with a background in teaching, creates an enjoyable, supportive and successful space where anyone and everyone will learn a lot and leave with a lot of skills, takeaways and knowledge.Sign up to our mailing list be be notified of future workshops:
"A fulfilling weekend adventure inside the world of photo bookmaking and publishing. Generous, exploratory and fun."
"I found the book making workshop really accessible, and enjoyed the hands-on aspect. It helped me understand the publishing process a bit better, and that you don’t need to have super-expensive resources to produce shareable works. Matt is a great facilitator too, whose advice on sequencing and editing alone was invaluable."
"I enjoyed learning about Matt's artistic practice and how he worked his projects into book format. I also loved looking through his personal collection of photo books, and experimenting with different binding techniques and papers, I could happily participate in this workshop multiple times because of how much there is to explore."