FIVE ZINES, 2015
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Thither & Hither
February, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 60
A 6cm X 42cm, six page colour concertina zine with B&W text on an pink paper wrap held in place by a red circle sticker.
Having escaped from the circus, our troupe of animals found refuge within the abode of Sir John Soane and several paintings within the Louvre’s collection (Léon-Matthieu Cochereau, Interior of the Studio of David, 1814; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, The Colosseum Seen through the Arcades of the Basilica of Constanine, 1825; and Jan van der Heyden, The Dam with the New Town Hall in Amsterdam, 1668). To the best of our knowledge, they remain there still.
This zine was created especially for Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier zine fair, 2015. Its companion, Hither & Thither, was released in May of the same year.
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Hither & Thither
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 6cm X 42cm, six page colour concertina zine with B&W text on an pale yellow paper wrap held in place by a bright yellow circle sticker.
This zine features the collages, Underneath Soane’s ‘star-fish’ ceiling, the library at No. 12 proved anything but quiet, created especially for the cover of the artists’ book edition of the La Trobe Journal, 2015, and In the small courtyard, overlooked, created for the cover of Imprint magazine’s collaboration issue, 2015.
It was created especially for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair, May 2015, and it is the companion to Thither & Hither, released earlier in the year, in February.
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RELATED LINKS,
A TINY 15-SECOND COLLAGE OF 150 MOVING FRAMES CREATED IN AN EXERCISE OF MERRIMENT (ESPECIALLY FOR INSTAGRAM)
WHAT IS AN ARTIST BOOK?, STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA BLOG POST, MARCH 2015
RELATED POSTS,
HITHER. HITHERTO. THITHERWARD. IN CELEBRATION OF '-ITHER' WORDS.
WEDNESDAY'S SALVAGED SEXTET
'THE PERFECT ESCAPE: ANIMATED WONDERLANDS INHABITED BY ENTHRALLING NARRATIVE'
LA TROBE JOURNAL COVERED
IMPRINT COVERED
3/ Gracia Haby
Zoological Digs
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 48cm X 12cm (folded to 8cm X 12cm in proportion), six page full-colour concertina zine with colour folded cover.
This foldout booklet of collaged and existing inhabitants in the Belgium's Antwerp Zoo, which opened on the 21st of July, 1843, is one of several zines made especially for the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair (2015). Postcard views from Jardin Zoologique d’Anvers Dierentuin van Antwerpenhe, the original source material for this zine, was a gift from Jill Kellett.
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RELATED POSTS,
AN EDITION OF ZOOLOGICAL DIGS IN HAND
NGVABF, BEAUTIFULLY DONE
4/ Gracia Haby
Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 7cm X 30cm, double-sided, six page colour concertina zine with B&W text on a pale cream paper wrap held in place by a pink circle sticker.
One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015. The companion to this zine is Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives.
This zine featured in the touring exhibition, Self-made: Zines and Artist Books, at the State Library Victoria, 2017, alongside the artists’ book, A Deck of Salvaged Relatives, from which the collages were drawn.
Other pocket-sized editions include,
Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition (2014)
Fallen by the wayside and other songs I don’t believe I know (2011)
Just as the ship went down and other songs I don't believe I know (2011)
Gold Sparkly (2011)
We are dreaming of the sea (2010)
Views in my pocket (2010)
Featuring a sextet of Salvaged Relatives, on cartes de visite:
In the borrowed costume for a soldier from Chout, designed by Mikhail Larionov, c 1921, with a male Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae).
In the borrowed costume for a Greek from Cleopatra, designed by Léon Bakst, c 1909, with a Ruby-topaz hummingbird (Chrysolampis mosquitus).
In the modified costume for a mourner from the Choreographic poem in one act, The song of the nightingale, designed by Henri Matisse, c 1920, with a charm of hummingbirds.
In the borrowed jacket from The hunt, Act I, Giselle, designed by Alexandre Benois, c 1910, with a Linnaeus's mouse opossum (Marmosa murina) and an oriental bay owl (Phodilus badius).
Beneath the curtain, in the modified costume for a street sweeper from Jardin public, designed by Jean Lurçat, 1935.
In the modified costume for an attendant of Köstchei from the Fantastic ballet in one act, The Firebird, designed by Aleksander Golovin and Léon Bakst, 1910, with a Slow loris (Nycticebus) and Karoo bush rat (Myotomys unisulcatus).
5/ Gracia Haby
Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 7cm X 30cm, double-sided, six page colour concertina zine with B&W text on a pale green paper wrap held in place by a dark green circle sticker.
One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015. The companion to this zine is Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives.
This zine featured in the touring exhibition, Self-made: Zines and Artist Books, at the State Library Victoria, 2017, alongside the artists’ book, A Deck of Salvaged Relatives, from which the collages were drawn.
Featuring a sextet of Salvaged Relatives, on cartes de visite:
In a borrowed costume from Pulcinella, deigned by Giorgio de Chirico, 1932, with a male ruby-throated hummingbird (Archilochus colubris).
In the borrowed costume for a court lady from the ballet in three acts and five scenes, The sleeping princess, designed by Léon Bakst, c 1921, with a Strawberry finch (Amandava amandava).
Beneath the wings, in the modified costume for a musician from the ballet in one act, Armida’s pavilion, designed by Alexandre Benois, c 1909, with a Frilled coquette (Lophornis magnificus) and a Bee hummingbird (Mellisuga helenae).
In the modified costumed for a Syrian woman from Cleopatra, designed by Léon Bakst, 1909 and 1930s, a Marvellous spatuletail (Loddigesia mirabilis).
In the modified costume for the Countess from the ballet in one act, The temptations of the shepherdess (or L’Amour vainqueur), designed by Juan Gris, c 1924, with a Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus).
In the modified costume for the Bluebird from the ballet in three acts and five scenes, The seeping princess, designed by Léon Bakst, c 1921.
‘Self-made: Zines and Artist Books’ exhibition now on at Bunjil Place
Christian Tatman
Monday 23rd of April, 2018
It’s a case of ‘zine there, done that’ for artists Louise Jennison and Gracia Haby.
The pair love the artistic freedom that comes with self publishing their own zines — so much so that they’ve created 129 of them.
“It’s about joy and passion in what you make,” Jennison said.
“There’s a tremendous freedom and enjoyment in that. We have been working collaboratively for 20 years and hopefully we’ll keep going. We see it as a way of making a difference.”
Jennison and Haby are exhibiting zines as part of the Self-made: Zines and Artist Books exhibition, which is now on at Bunjil Place.
The exhibition showcases the world of self-publishing including material from the State Library Victoria’s collection.
It takes patrons on a journey through the evolution of independent publishing and explores themes from punk zines in the 1970s to contemporary feminist zines.
See the exhibition at Bunjil Place, Narre Warren, until April 29. Alongside exhibition, Bunjil Place is also showing works by local artist Kenny Pittock.
