FOUR ZINES, 2014

 
 

1/ Gracia Haby
Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
October, 2014

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 9.5cm X 11cm, 24 page full-colour zine hand-stitched with red thread. Each zine comes with a pair of red/cyan 3D glasses.

Mermaids! Mermen! Parrots! Splish! Splash! A pocket-sized version of the unique-state artists’ book of the same name, which is in the collection of Monash University Library (Caulfield Campus).

 
 
 
 
 

2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
The Suggestion of Opulence
June, 2014

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 10.5cm X 15cm, 28 page full-colour zine, hand-stitched with imperial blue thread and a golden paper waistband wrapped around the middle. This zine includes ten digital collages, all of which were created for The Australian Ballet's Behind Ballet blog as part of Styling Ballet Imperial.

This zine, alongside Nuit Noir, debuted at Tonerpalooza, a festival of zines presented by the Sticky Institute and the State Library of Victoria, 2014.

 
 
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3/ Gracia Haby
Misreadings
Febuary, 2014

Digital print zine
Edition of 70

 
 
 

A 10.5cm X 15cm, 26 page B&W zine with lavender card and a blue spine (with shimmer).

misread |mɪsˈriːd|
verb ( past and past participle misread |-ˈrɛd| ) [ with obj. ]
read (a piece of text) wrongly.
• judge or interpret (a situation or a person’s manner or behaviour) incorrectly: had she been completely misreading his intentions?
• interpret a collection of someoneelse’s photographs to suit own end: in order to keep herself amused she misread the scenes before her before binding them into a zine to take to Sticky’s annual zine fair.

All images in Misreadings borrowed and misread with permission from the former Tromsø Town Museum and Troms Folk Museum collections now in the photo archives of Perspektivet Museum (PEM), Tromsø, Norway.

An edition of Misreadings was exhibited as part of PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books (Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 2014).

 
 
 
 

4/ Gracia Haby
As if from the clouds, restless
February, 2014

Digital print zine
Edition of 100

 
 
 

A 42cm X 7.5cm (folded to 10.5cm X 7.5cm in proportion), four page full-colour concertina zine with B&W text on reverse. Aqua title wrap held in place by a blue circle sticker.

This zine of Swiss Alps abandon includes four pages reproduced from the unique state collaged artists’ book As if from the clouds, restless (made especially for Draw Me A Story — The Art of Children's Book Illustration, Maroondah Art Gallery, 2014), and its accompanying narrative.

Editions of As if from the clouds, restless have been exhibited as part of George Paton Gallery: Artist's Books (reprised) (George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, 2014) and PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books (Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, 2014).

This zine was created especially for Sticky Institute’s Festival of the Photocopier zine fair, 2014.

 
 
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