THREE ZINES, 2023
1/ Brilliant Gathering
2/ Hold
3/ Recall
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Brilliant Gathering
2023
Digital print zine
Edition of 75
A 40cm X 15cm (folded to 8cm X 15cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with a hand-cut vista.
Bird engravings, originally hand-coloured by John Lewin (1770–1819) from Birds of New South Wales, with their natural history, 1813, featured from left to right include,
a Warty-face Honey-sucker
Current name: Regent Honeyeater (Anthochaera phrygia)
an Orange Breast Thrush
Current name: Rufous Whistler (Pachycephala rufiventris)
two Spotted Crossbeaks
Current name: Diamond Firetail (Emblema guttata)
a Yellow-breasted Thrush
Current name: Eastern Yellow Robin (Eopsaltria australis)
an Orange Rumpt Flycatcher
Current name: Rufous Fantail (Rhipidura rufifrons)
and a Red Breast Warbler
Current name: Scarlet Robin (Petroica multicolor).
On the reverse you can see a detail from the Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula, as captured in infrared light by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.
Brilliant Gathering was created especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.
“The few species that made it through the end-Cretaceous bird-apocalypse arrived in the post-asteroid world equipped with an ability to sing. The diverse sound-scapes of birdsong around the world today are built from this legacy as survivors expanded their ranges and split into new species. It is likely, therefore, that bird sounds as we know them only arrived after the resurgence of forests following the calamity of the Cretaceous. In birdsong, we hear the evolutionary legacy of renewal after great loss.”
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Hold
2023
Digital print zine
Edition of 75
A 40cm X 15cm (folded to 8cm X 15cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 120gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with hand-cut snail outlines.
Created while on hold, in the slow business of transferring email and website hosting, within this zine you will find snail engravings by Jacob Hoefnagel, after Joris Hoefnagel, from Animals, plants and fruits around a snail, 1693–1726; and Jacques Callot, from The Snail and the Raven, 1621–1635; watercolour over pencil drawings of snails by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt from the album Fish, Shells and Insects, 1596–1610; an engraving of a skeleton in repose by Hendrick Hondius, after Teodoro Filippo di Liagno, from 1642; and a chalk on paper drawing of a mould taken from a face by draughtsman George Hendrik Breitner, Pleister-masker, 1867–1923.
Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.
Hold was created especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.
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RELATED LINKS,
NGV MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR 2023
CAM ART BOOK FAIR 2023
RELATED POST,
THREE DAYS IN THE GREAT HALL
3/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Recall
2023
Digital print zine
Edition of 75
A 29.5cm X 21cm (folded to 5.2cm X 7.4cm in proportion), full-colour zine, on 80gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated.
Printed on ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated stock. Made with 100% recycled post-consumer waste, ecoStar + is also made Carbon Neutral.
Within this zine, press three pages together to form whole butterflies from the Natural history of eighteen nondescrpt. moths with descriptions. Collected — engraved and faithfully coloured after nature by John William Lewin, New South Wales Parramatta, 1804; Helena Scott and Harriet Scott’s Illustrations of spiders and insects from Ash Island, ca. 1852–1864; and Thomas Scott’s Insects &c. Van Diemen's Land, 1825, beneath which you can see the moving panoramas attributed to the Borgmann Brothers, ca. 1853.
Recall, as an edition, was created especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair. Recall, in its original guise, was created for United Artists 2023’s project, We Remember, for World Book Night, 2023.
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RELATED LINKS,
WE REMEMBER FOR WORLD BOOK NIGHT 2023
NGV MELBOURNE ART BOOK FAIR 2023
CAM ART BOOK FAIR 2023
RELATED POSTS,
MAKING A TREE HOLLOW FROM A LUNAR CRATER
THREE DAYS IN THE GREAT HALL
