Ghost Gums

Currently on the work table: Ghost Gums, a Moth Woman Press mini-zine in the process of creation for the 2020 STICKY INSTITUTE FESTIVAL OF THE PHOTOCOPIER ZINE FAIR, Meat Market, 3 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne, 3051. You’ll find me and my zines there on Sunday 9 February from 12 – 5 pm. 

As mentioned in our recent posts, all proceeds from Moth Woman Press sales at FOTP 2020 will be donated to Wildlife Victoria’s Victorian Bushfire Appeal.

Tidings of comfort and joy

To lovers of book art far and wide, Moth Women Press wishes you all the very best for this Christmas Season and the year ahead.

Detail of our Christmas tree, Ballarat, 2017

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LEAVES OF ABSENCE at Fremantle Arts Centre

Leaves of Absence, 2017, artist book,  32.5 H x 25.5 W x 4 D. Ed: 10 plus 1
A/P. Installation view, Fremantle Arts Centre. (Image courtesy FAC).

In the midst of preparations for its Melbourne launch on Friday 24 November, this photo of Leaves of Absence, landed in my inbox.

Pictured above: Leaves of Absence, 2017, artist book with selected page views, in situ at Fremantle Arts Centre, WA, during the recent Fremantle Arts Centre Print Awards. The exhibition concluded on 12 November. 

Click on image for a clearer view.

Memory #22 (Fallen Woman)

Hot off the press: archival pigment print Memory #22, AKA Fallen Woman. The twenty-second work from the ongoing Leaves of Absence series, it will also be part of a forthcoming artist book.

To view development stages of Memory #22, go to Deborah Klein's Art Blog HERE.

Memory #22 (Fallen Woman) 2016, archival pigment
print, 41.5 x 33.3 cm

For Shakespeare's 400th birthday

Memory #18, 2016, archival pigment print

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare

A New Leaf

Turning over A New Leaf in time for tomorrow's Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair at Melbourne Town Hall. The doors will open at 12 pm and close at 5 pm. Entry is free.

A New Leaf, 2016, mini-zine, 10.5 x 7.7 cm

A New Leaf

When the infamous countdown to 2016 began, I was hard at work on the cover art for a new mini-zine. It's very much a work in progress, but it seemed so pertinent to the start of a brand new year that I'm sharing it here.

Happy New Year from Moth Woman Press.

 Draft front cover for A New Leaf  

Draft back cover for A New Leaf

As the midnight bells tolled, there was still time to light some sparklers and
toast the arrival of the New Year