FOUR ZINES, 2023–2024

CONCERTINAFOLDEDZINES
Written By Gracia & Louise
 
 
 
 
 

1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Turn a bird
2024

Indigo Digital print zine
Edition of 1oo

 
 
 

A 40cm X 13.2cm (folded to 10cm X 13.2cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 160gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with a hand-cut elements.

A zine made to celebrate Bird’s Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology, presented by Museums Victoria at Melbourne Museum as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week, on Saturday the 20th of July, 2024, in which a scientist (Dr Karen Rowe), a historian (Rebecca Carland) and two artists (the two of us) chattered about birds (with John Kean) in art and science including the history of museum science, rare ornithology books and taxonomy, and museum collections as artistic inspiration.

Bird's Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology
Presented as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week
Museum Theatre
Melbourne Museum
11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, Victoria
Saturday 20th July
1.30–2.30pm

Flip the panels to make multiple species! Featuring two birds by Silvester Diggles (1817–1880), a Rusty-breasted shrike thrush (Colluricincla Rufigaster), and a Yellow-breasted fly-catcher (Machoerirhinchus flaviventris), from The ornithology of Australia, Volume 1, commencing with Acquila and ending with Smicrornis, ca. 1863–1875 (Museums Victoria).

And two birds by John Gould (1804–1881), a Zebra finch (Amadina castanotis, now known as Taeniopygia castanotis), and a Tiwi blue-winged kookaburra (Dacelo (Dacelo) leachii cervina). The lithograph of the Zebra finch is from part one of Gould’s preliminary work on the birds of Australia of which only two parts were issued. These two parts are now referred to as the ‘Cancelled Plates’, 1837.

On the cover you will find a New Holland creeper, now known as a New Holland honeyeater (Phylidonyris (Meliornis) novaehollandiae), by Sarah Stone (1760–1844); and a Speckled manakin (Pipra punctata), now known as a Spotted pardalote (Pardalotus punctatus), by George Prideaux Harris (1775–1810).

In the background, an 1892 monotype landscape by Edgar Degas (1834–1917). “Using coloured oil paints, overlaid with scumbled pastels, Degas produced a view of a mountainous landscape, partially obscured by mist, which verges on abstraction” (MET).

With special thanks to Hayley Webster, Manager, Library, Museums Victoria.

Turn a bird was created especially in celebration of Bird’s Eye View, where it was released into the wild.

Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.

 

Museums Victoria: Bird’s Eye View, YouTube
Bird’s Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology
Presented as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week
Museum Theatre, Melbourne Museum
Saturday 20th of July, 2024

Below the canopy, find a patch to pause, rewind to another time, and press play. For those who could not make it to Bird’s Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology, presented as part of winter’s Melbourne Rare Book Week, you can now watch the recording of our conversation with Dr Karen Rowe, Rebecca Carland, and John Kean, at the Melbourne Museum.

 
 
ZINE: TURN A BIRD
ZINE: TURN A BIRD
$7.00
 
 
 

2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Brilliant Gathering
2023

Digital print zine
Edition of 75

 
 
 

A 40cm X 15cm (folded to 8cm X 15cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with a hand-cut vista.

Bird engravings, originally hand-coloured by John Lewin (1770–1819) from Birds of New South Wales, with their natural history, 1813, featured from left to right include,
a Warty-face Honey-sucker 
Current name: Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia)
an Orange Breast Thrush
Current name: Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris)
two Spotted Crossbeaks
Current name: Diamond Firetail (Emblema guttata)
a Yellow-breasted Thrush 
Current name: Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis)
an Orange Rumpt Flycatcher
Current name: Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)
and a Red Breast Warbler
Current name: Scarlet Robin (Petroica multicolor).

On the reverse you can see a detail from the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, as captured in infrared light by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.

Brilliant Gathering was created especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.

“The few species that made it through the end-Cretaceous bird-apocalypse arrived in the post-asteroid world equipped with an ability to sing. The diverse sound-scapes of birdsong around the world today are built from this legacy as survivors expanded their ranges and split into new species. It is likely, therefore, that bird sounds as we know them only arrived after the resurgence of forests following the calamity of the Cretaceous. In birdsong, we hear the evolutionary legacy of renewal after great loss.”
— David George Haskell, 'Sounds Wild and Broken' (Victoria: Black Inc. Books, 2022), p. 59.
 
 
ZINE: BRILLIANT GATHERING
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ZINE: BRILLIANT GATHERING
$7.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Hold
2023

Digital print zine
Edition of 75

 
 
 

A 40cm X 15cm (folded to 8cm X 15cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with hand-cut snail outlines.

Created while on hold, in the slow business of transferring email and website hosting, within this zine you will find snail engravings by Jacob Hoefnagel, after Joris Hoefnagel, from Animals, plants and fruits around a snail, 1693–1726; and Jacques Callot, from The Snail and the Raven, 1621–1635; watercolour over pencil drawings of snails by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt from the album Fish, Shells and Insects, 1596–1610; an engraving of a skeleton in repose by Hendrick Hondius, after Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, from 1642; and a chalk on paper drawing of a mould taken from a face by draughtsman George Hendrik Breitner, Pleister-masker, 1867–1923.

Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.

Hold was created especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.

 
 
ZINE: HOLD
ZINE: HOLD
$7.00
 
 
 
 
 
 

4/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Recall
2023

Digital print zine
Edition of 75

 
 
 

A 29.5cm X 21cm (folded to 5.2cm X 7.4cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 80gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated.

Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.

Within this zine, press three pages together to form whole butterflies from the Natural history of eighteen nondescrpt. moths with descriptions. Collected — engraved and faithfully coloured after nature by John William Lewin, New South Wales Parramatta, 1804; Helena Scott and Harriet Scott’s Illustrations of spiders and insects from Ash Island, ca. 1852–1864; and Thomas Scott’s Insects &c. Van Diemen's Land, 1825, beneath which you can see the moving panoramas attributed to the Borgmann Brothers, ca. 1853.

Recall, as an edition, was created especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair. Recall, in its original guise, was created for United Artists 2023’s project, We Remember, for World Book Night, 2023.

 
 
ZINE: RECALL
ZINE: RECALL
$7.00
 
 
 
 
 
 
Gracia & Louise

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