SIX ZINES, 2021–2022
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Rakali Grotto
2022
Digital print zine
Edition of 40
A 40cm X 18cm (folded to 8cm X 18cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with a hand-cut rock face to form a grotto, and 1.2mm Japanese hole punched twilight sky.
We’ve made a grotto for the native Rakali (Hydromys chrysogaster). With partially webbed hind feet and broad palms to serve as paddles, Rakalis are streamlined for efficiency. In our Rakali’s grotto you can see a Mermaid’s necklace, a Small green seastar, an Elephant snail, and a Notched shore crab, all cut from the satin and details from dress making illustrations and paper dolls.
Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.
Rakali Grotto was created especially for the 2022 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.
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RELATED LINK,
NGV MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR 2022
RELATED POSTS,
LEAF THROUGH
FAIR BOUND
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Roosting on a concealed tree branch
2022
Digital print zine
Edition of 40
A 40cm X 18cm (folded to 8cm X 18cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with hand-cut owl outlines.
Featuring seven camouflaged owls, including a Tawny frogmouth (Podargus strigoides), a pair of Powerful owls (Ninox strenua), an Eastern grass owl (Tyto longimembris), a Winking owl (Ninox connivens), and a pair of Masked owls (Tyto novaehollandiae castanopss) drawn by Silvester Diggles from Ornithology of Australia. Volume 1, commences with Acquila and ends with Smicrornis, ca. 1863–1875.
Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.
Roosting on a concealed tree branch was created especially for the 2022 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.
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RELATED LINKS,
SOMETHING REVERBERATED
CASTLEMAINE ART MUSEUM BOOK FAIR
RELATED POST,
CREPUSCULAR AND NOCTURNAL INHABITANTS
3/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Tiny but huge
2022
Digital print zine
Edition of 40
Long-eared. Broad-nosed. Free-tailed. Tiny in size, yes, with some, like the Little forest bat (Vespadelus vulturnus) weighing as little as 3 grams, but huge in personality and role, microbats are bioindicators of the health of our ecosystems. Bent-wing. Horseshoe. Yellow-bellied and Ghost. Their roost locations are as varied as the 68 different Australian species of microbats themselves. Their social systems and communication methods, colony to colony, as complex. From the tree hollow and crevice to the foliage and bark dwelling species, these marvellous echolocators, emerge at dusk, and we remain in awe of their ability to read the information returned to them in an echo.
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A 29cm X 15cm (folded to 5.8cm X 15cm in proportion), on 120gsm Ecostar 100% Recycled Uncoated, hand-cut zine.
Tiny but huge was created especially for the 2022 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.
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RELATED LINKS,
BRACKETED BY LIGHT
LITTLE FOREST BAT, ROSETTA
GOULD’S WATTLED BAT, PATRICK
RELATED POST,
AFTER BAT COMES BAROQUE POSSUM
4/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Went out for a walk
2022
Digital print zine
Edition of 40
A 40cm X 18cm (folded to 8cm X 18cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with a hand-cut tapered mountain range.
Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.
Went out for a walk was our first zine for 2022, created especially for Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier at the Meat Market.
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RELATED LINK,
FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOCOPIER 2022
RELATED POST,
LEAF THROUGH
5/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Bats aren’t scary
2021
Digital print zine
Edition of 25
Bats aren’t scary, they’re quite the opposite. They’re crucial, endemic pollinators and seed dispersers of our forests and woodlands. As we slumber, they fly across the skies in search of blossom and nectar. If there’s one thing scary in relation to them it would be that without them there are no forests, as we currently know them to be, and without the forests, there are no flying foxes and all the other life sustained within them. Please look after this large temperate pteropid megabat so it can look after you.
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A 42cm X 20cm (folded to 10.5cm X 20cm in proportion), hand-cut zine.
Bats aren’t scary created especially for The Seventh Annual Hallozeen 2021, the annual group launch of Halloween-themed zines, online and at the Mission to Seafarers.
Hallozeen2021 Gather.Town opened at midday on Sunday the 31st of October, 2021, with the physical zine fair the following weekend, at midday on Sunday the 7th of November, 2021, at the Mission to Seafarers, Docklands.
Hallozeen is run by Alex e Clark and Sticky Institute. Lucky 7 Cats Poster by Emily N3ver. With special thanks to the City of Melbourne.
In the lead-up to Hallozeen, we spoke about all things Astounding bats to Zines via Zoom with Luke Sticky and Cora Zon on the radio on Thursday the 4th of November, 2021.
Luke Sticky and Cora Zon will be back on the radio on Yarra Valley FM on Thursday 4th November 2021 from 12 noon to 1pm on the show ZINE. The three special guests on the show this week will be zinemakers and artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison plus Remy the bat who has feeding time at 12 noon! Gracia and Louise will be talking about their zines plus their participation in the real world Hallozeen zine fair happening at Mission for Seafarers on November 7th. Tune in live on 99.1FM or listen through the power of the internet.
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RELATED LINK,
HALLOZEEN.RIP
RELATED POSTS,
HALLOZEEN; HELLO REMY
MEGABAT, MEGACUTE
‘FU’ FLY FOX
6/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Something reverberated
2021
Digital print zine
Edition of 40
The guidebooks all agreed; they described the song of the Grey shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica) as mellow and liquid, with a typical song phrase consisting of 4–8 notes, often beginning with 2–4 repetitive notes.
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Something reverberated is a pocket-sized replica forest walk of the artists' book, Something reverberated. One of two zines created for release at The Seventh Annual Hallozeen 2021, at the Mission to Seafarers, and to coincide with the exhibitions, Biosphere (2021), and Wonder Walk (2021–2022).
Wonder Walk is an exhibition of original artwork and zines, a creative response to metropolitan Melbourne restrictions to exercise within a 5km radius of your home during the Covid-19 lockdown. Zine makers from all over Victoria have come together in Healesville for this exhibition containing their original work, with zines to buy, share and maybe exchange.
Popular in the 70s and 80s during the punk scene, zines were a creative way for anybody to get their voice heard. Zines connect individuals to movements and/or cultures that share common lived experiences, and contain a collection of ideas, words, thoughts, artwork and poetry that is produced inexpensively often in black and white using a photocopier, and in a simple organic format.
Cora Zon
