With three radically different approaches, books are now seen, in Newbown’s words, as “somewhere between everyday objects, sculptural objects and story-telling,” the artists nonetheless agree that a book is no longer, in Woolley’s words,  “only words printed on 80 GSM A4 sheets of paper”.

The show’s title, “Turningover,” suggests a new look at an old craft.

Shroeder, who has only been doing 3D paperworks for the last 18 months, says: “I wanted to comment on the way people speak to each other and how people use words”.

Woolley, who has recently been studying bookbinding with John Tonkin, of Canberra’s Bookarts, explores the elements of a book, papermaking, dyeing, stitching and typography.

Newbown says: “I love to see an idea become an object that others can share. I love the idea that stories can travel in people’s minds and in physical objects.”

Schroeder explains the artists’ connections: “We first met 10 years ago at bookcraft classes at CIT. These days we’ve been getting together once a month and ‘playing’ at each others’ homes.”

“I find the whimsical world of paper sculpture deeply satisfying,” Schroeder says. “It allows others to share in my quaint world and daydream with me.”

Take “She choked on her words”, the work pictured and worn by Schroeder’s niece, Abby Webb. “I took it literally and put it into 3D,. If you look carefully at the words on the model’s neck, each begins with a “C” û words like ‘community,’ ‘coerce’ and ‘contradict’.  I wanted people to say, ‘that’s nice and sparkly, but then when they get in close your seat that there’s more to it than meets the eye.’”

“Turningover,” handbound artist books, printing, textural papers and 3D paper works, at Strathnairn Homestead Gallery, 90 Stockdill Drive, 10am-4.30pm Friday to Sunday until July 15.