A VAGARY OF IMPEDIMENTS & A SNEAK OF WEASELS
A zine by Gracia Haby
Edition of 60
May, 2009
A 10.5cm X 15cm, 52 page colour and B&W zine with a pale-lilac
cover and light-grey card spine, with a cardboard backing.
Featuring 24 original collages (in both colour and B&W) and listing
140 collective nouns, this zine includes visual responses to a diligence
of messengers, a catch of fish, an embarrassment of riches, a ticktock
of clocks, a prickle of hedgehogs, a muster of soldiers, a volery of
birds, a spring of seals, a colony of fungi and, of course, a vagary
of impediments and a sneak of weasels.
A zine takes shape slowly,
Adding
salt to the week with a thump.
A
chine of polecats carrying four new zines.
Delicate.
A
spring of seals and other details.
Animalised.
Inspiration drawn from the collective nouns and
their exploration on A skulk of foxes
& a husk of hares.
This
zine was included in the box set, ...and then there were none
(edition of three artists' proofs, compiled 2011), made especially for
the
IMPACT7
2011 zine fair co-ordinated by Anna Poletti at MUMA.
The three sets of artists' proofs were of a loose trio of zines that
won the 2010 Artspace Mackay Inaugural Zine Prize, as part of the 2010
Libris Awards.
...and
then there were none
Tumble & Fall (2009)
A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels (2009)
Postcards from... But for the moon nobody
could see us (2008)
Gracia
Haby
An
anthology of stories (detail)
A configuration of natural objects
A troop of monkeys
2009
printed zine
