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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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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
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
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.
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
Take a lesson from the ground
It was a familiar pattern
Pattern
Round, circle, dot
Winged
Limbed
Here, there
The Company You Keep
Whiskers and Bristles
Dear Tails
You and Me
Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes
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
Humble birds
Birds that like to display
Webbed
The Interloper
Birds that have caught my eye in print, but I've never been lucky enough to see in reality
An aurora of polar bears I have dreamt of
Five proud birds
Volume I
Volume II
Volume III
Postcard collages front and back, including typed Dear You narrative.
Several foxes enfolded
A set of two things regarded as a unit
A menagerie of common and exotic animals
Including
Thereza Rowe, Zines: A Labour of love, Doodlers Anonymous, 2010
There, a moment held
Quadrupeds drawn from London’s Natural History Museum collection
Including
Melissa Hart, Mornington Peninsula Library Interview: Louise Jennison, 2010
Closing my eyes, it is possible to imagine myself anywhere but where I am (I)
Closing my eyes, it is possible to imagine myself anywhere but where I am (II)
Who are you?
Including
Alexandra Hedberg, Art as Business: Gracia Haby, 2010
We are dreaming of the sea
Views in my pocket
A folded drawing of a Sulphur-crested cockatoo
A folded drawing of a Southern boobook owl
A folded drawing of an Australian Pelican
A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels
Tweak, Tweaked, Tweet
Tumble & Fall
Including
Space Invaders, National Gallery of Australia (2011)
Prima Facie, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK (2021)
Summertime: And the livin’ is easy, just as Ella & Louis sang
Just the two of us: A fine pair
A Single Thought
Postcards from... A key to help make your own world visible (2009)
Postcards from... But for the moon nobody could see us (2008)
Postcards from... A trapdoor in every room (2007)
Postcards from... If we stand very still, no one will notice (2007)
Including
Melissa Cadden, Postcards from other worlds, The Eloquent Page: The National Library of Australia, 2011
Good Evening, good evening. So nice of you to come all this way
Before it's too late
Small Collection
Including
Sarah Peters, Getting Lost in A Sense of Place in Artist Books, Walker Art Center, 2012
Have Wheels, Will Go
Three in the Kitchen
What Do You Think?
Including
Millie Ross, Zine Scene: The creative world of DIY publishing, Yen magazine, 2007
It all began in 2002.
Is there kunst in the house — How to get by on €4 a day
Everything between home & work
Looking out the window
Where does the musk rat keep his musk?
A pair of zines for Omar & Olive
HOW TO... series of four
Imagined travels
11.5 fossils
Geschlecht und Schoklade
Footy Essentials
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).
Looking and almost never finding
It was quite a wilderness
That in the moon did glitter