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Since 2002, we have been making zines to share with you.
What began as a cut, fold and staple affair has since grown to become something altogether more elaborate, something more akin to our artists’ books.
Today, what we refer to as a zine straddles with ease the space between zine and artists’ book by way of small publication.
Call them what you will, we ask only that you derive some joy from them.
Upon last count, we have released 147 zine titles. -
Our zines can be found in the collections of:
Melbourne Museum; Monash University Library; National Library of Australia; State Library Victoria; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Queensland; University of Melbourne Library; University of West England; Tate (UK); Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University; ACA Library of Savannah College of Art & Design; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (USA).
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The line between earth & sky
Juniper & the Berries
(Imagined) field notes, World Book Night 2025
Here is something that might have happened, for The Earth is Us, Earth Day 2025
A box of ten zines, 2022–2025
Three years, flew: a compilation box of zines, 2019–2021
Nineteen: a compilation box of zines, 2017–2018
Twenty-four: a compilation box of zines, 2015–2016
A constellation of zines, 2014–2015
An order of zines, 2013
Turn a bird
Brilliant Gathering
Hold
Recall
Including,
Bird’s Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology, presented as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week, Melbourne Museum, 2024
Rakali Grotto
Roosting on a concealed tree branch
Tiny but huge
Went out for a walk
Bats aren’t scary
Something reverberated
A pair of zines, What if we saw, while out walking (I)
and (II), for you to download, print, splice, fold, share, especially for the 2021 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier.
A pair of zines made-in-iso for you to download, print, fold, splice, share, to accompany a display of our zines and artists’ books in the cases of the Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK.
In the MET there is a “Pit from a Balanites tree with a hole caused by a rodent”, ca. 2381–2323 B.C., Old Kingdom, on view in Gallery 100.
We have been looking at you the wrong way round. We still do. To the gardeners of the sky.
Rewild
Museum Sketches: Your Specimens Sing an Operatic Chorus
Please, I’m looking for (whatever you are looking for)
Paint out
A zine, Poephila cincta, 2020, from twenty original postcard collages created as our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project, 2019.
Four Museum Drawings
Five views of a creeping Honey possum (Tarisipes rostratus)
Animate. Animated. Animal.
Ripples in the Open
I think all the world is falling
No longer six feet under
Disrupted and rumpled
Dim wood, spark bright
A warmed pebble in my hand
Looped
Paw Pad Path
Your gelatine silver print, in the shape of the full moon
Including
Artist Showcase, Australian Print Workshop (2020–2021)
Take a lesson from the ground
It was a familiar pattern
Pattern
Round, circle, dot
Winged
Limbed
Here, there
Seasonal museum sketches (autumn)
Duck in, duck out
Flippered and flightless
Dove, love, wash
Seasonal museum sketches (summer)
Seasonal museum sketches (spring)
Wrens, flycatchers and honeyeaters, beware
Afternoon of a Hopping Mouse (Notomys mitchellii)
The Company You Keep
Whiskers and Bristles
Dear Tails
You and Me
Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes
Cutting the Collection
Thumb Through
Thither & Hither
Hither & Thither
Zoological Digs
Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Including
Christian Tatman, ‘Self-made: Zines and Artist Books’ exhibition now on at Bunjil Place, 2018
A Company of Parrots
Whoot-woo
Birds with tremendous beaks
A charm of finches
Shaped like that of an egg
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
Salvaged Relatives, boxed
A Catalogue of Bodies harvested from the television adaptations (1989-2013) of Agatha Christie’s stories featuring Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet.
First edition, 2012
Second edition, 2014
Nuit Noir
Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) who visited my garden one summer’s day
38.1500° S, 144.3500° E
Lunch
A beating of wings (I)
A beating of wings (II)
Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition
In your dreams, blurred and distinct
Twelve months, an explorer
Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
The Suggestion of Opulence
Misreadings
As if from the clouds, restless
A Postcard as Measuring Device
Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova)
Beneath the screen of closed eyelids (Port Said)
It’s the Dusty Hour
The Glimmer of Armour
Collection
Whose lights were now seen glittering
Conveyed by the Postal System
My dear, don’t worry my deer
An even distribution of weight
Small ephemeral atlas
Including
Sarah Bodman, ‘Artists’ Books in Australia’, Collaboration, Cooperation, & Shared Goals, JAB—Journal of Artists’ Books, 2012
Fallen by the wayside and other songs I don't believe I know
Just as the ship went down and other songs I don't believe I know
Gold Sparkly
Including
Sara Bowen, Artists, Books, and Interviews #1: Gracia & Louise, Book Art Object, 2011
In addition to our online store, copies of many of our zines can be found and purchased in a handful of places both close to home and further afield: Australian Print Workshop; and Sticky Institute; and Minnesota Center for Book Arts (USA).
Limited edition boxed sets of our zines can be found at Douglas Stewart Fine Books.
Previously, our zines have been stocked at Airel Books, Hand Held Gallery, Milly Sleeping, Museum of Contemporary Art Store, The Paper Mill (Australia); Colette (France); Cow Books (Japan); Solander Gallery (New Zealand).
Copies of our zines are available for a requested leaf through too, at the following institutions: Melbourne Museum, Monash University Library, National Library of Australia, State Library Victoria, State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Queensland, University of Melbourne Library (Australia); University of West England, Tate (UK); Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (USA).