SPRUNG FROM THE PAGE

Recently landed: Sprung from the page

On a blue sky day, just before the Easter break, we gave an artists’ talk and zine making workshop in the Leigh Scott Room, of the Baillieu Library, at The University of Melbourne. Presented as part of Archives and Special Collections Spotlight On series, in partnership with the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV)’s Analog Art Club, such opportunities are a wonderful way for us to continue weaving the many strands of the things we care about, as we leap from early artists’ books and zines, printed largely single-colour for affordability, to learning from the wildlife in our care, through observation, patience, and the recognition of different ways of being. Thursday’s talk and workshop was also a chance to see a few familiar faces, to meet, in person, people we know online, and to learn some new faces.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

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8th of April, 2026

It was a thrill to see a selection of our artists’ books laid alongside Jan Swammerdam’s The book of nature or, the history of Insects: reduced to distinct classes confirmed by particular instances (1758) and Jean-Henri Fabre’s Fabre’s Book of Insects (1937). Resting upon their supportive, spine-cushioning pillows, Donovan’s An epitome of the natural history of the insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific oceans (1805), Lewin’s A natural history of the lepidopterous insects of New South Wales (1822) and the Scott sisters Australian lepidoptera and their transformations drawn from the life (1864), these books have been, and continue to be, a guiding light.