FIVE FOLDED ZINES, 2015

FOLDEDZINES
Written By Gracia & Louise
 
 
 

1/ Louise Jennison
A Company of Parrots
December, 2015

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 7.5cm X 10.5cm in proportion), B&W zine on mint green paper.

This zine features an Elegant parrot (Neophema elegans); an Orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster); a Night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis); an Eastern ground parrot (Pezoporus wallicus); and a Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus).

Albeit a little late, this zine was released into the wild at Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier zine fair, 2016.

This zine featured in the reading library of the touring exhibition, Self-made: Zines and Artist Books, at the State Library Victoria, 2017. The exhibition also included our artists’ book, A Deck of Salvaged Relatives, and two accompanying pocket-sized zines featuring costumed Salvaged Relatives.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2/ Louise Jennison
Whoot-woo
May, 2015

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 7.5cm X 10.5cm in proportion), B&W zine on a pale blue paper.

This zine features pencil drawings of a Rufous owl (Ninox rufa); Powerful owl (Ninox strenua); Barking owl (Ninox connivens); Lesser sooty owl (Tyto multipunctata); and a Barn owl (Tyto alba).

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.

 
 
 
 
 
 

3/ Louise Jennison
Birds with tremendous beaks
May, 2015

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 7.5cm X 10.5cm in proportion), B&W zine on a pale orange paper.

This zine features pencil drawings of an Australian pied oystercatcher (Haematopus longirostris); Yellow-billed kingfisher (Syma torotoro); Paradise riflebird (Ptiloris paradiseus); Glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus); and an Australian Pelican (Pelecanus conspicillatus).

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.

 
 
 
 
 

4/ Louise Jennison
A charm of finches
May, 2015

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 7.5cm X 10.5cm in proportion), B&W zine on a pale pink paper.

This zine features pencil drawings of a Star finch (Neochmia ruficauda); Red-eared firetail (Stagonopleura oculata); Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae); Black-throated finch (Poephila cincta); and a Double-barred finch (Taeniopygia bichenovii).

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.

 
 
 
 
 

5/ Louise Jennison
Shaped like that of an egg
May, 2015

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 7.5cm X 10.5cm in proportion), B&W zine on parakeet green paper.

This zine features pencil drawings of an Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae); Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora); Black swan (Cygnus atratus); Little penguin (Eudyptula minor); and a Helmeted guineafowl (Numida meleagris).

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.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Gracia & Louise

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