Join award-winning animators and artists Eleanor & Giovanni for a workshop based on their Enlighten Festival 2026 illumination The Page Turner, created for the National Library of Australia.

In this session, participants will paint and keep a limited-edition maquette (model) of the page turner character featured in the beautiful stop motion animation projected on our building during the Enlighten Festival.

Eleanor and Giovanni will guide participants, show some examples, and discuss their creative practice.

This workshop is suitable for children aged between 6 and 12 years. All materials will be provided.

About the artists

Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar are Canberra based artists and animators working in intricately handcrafted stop motion animation.

Key to Eleanor and Giovanni’s collaboration is bringing together their different skills, with Eleanor’s work in experimental animation and Giovanni’s experience as a graphic designer and musician.

Eleanor and Giovanni met in 2016 while studying a master of stop motion animation at BAU design school in Barcelona. Since that time, they have worked together on more than 15 animated music videos and short films which have screened worldwide in film festivals, as well as animated musical segments that have appeared on Nick Jr and SBS.