A gentle reminder…

 

ARTIST BOOKS & FOLIOS

Deborah Klein Elizabeth Banfield and Theo Strasser

Opening Event: 2 -4 pm Saturday September 23 

Stephen McLaughlan Gallery (South Gallery)

Level 8 Room 16 The Nicholas Building 

37 Swanston Street Melbourne 3000 (on the corner of Flinders Lane)

Telephone: 0407 317 323

Email: st73599@bigpond.net.au

Gallery Hours:

Wednesday to Friday 1 pm- 5 pm, Saturday 11 am -5 pm & by appointment

I do hope you can drop by on Saturday afternoon, or before the exhibition finishes its run on October 7.  

I’m currently in London, but will be there in spirit with fellow book artists Theo Strasser and Elizabeth Banfield. Many thanks to exhibition curator Stephen McLaughlan for inviting me to be part of this show and for its impeccable display. 

Photo credit for the following views: Stephen McLaughlan. Click on images to enlarge.

A visit to APW with Sue Verney

Last Thursday Shane Jones and I took our friend Sue Verney to the Australian Print Workshop Gallery to see the APW George Collie Memorial Print Award Exhibition, which includes several of my linocuts. 

Sue, who was visiting from London, is one of my oldest friends. She has been enormously supportive of my artistic endeavours since I shared a flat with her in Holland Park, London, way back in the 1970s. That’s Sue and I outside the APW directly above and she can also be seen scrutinising MWP zines and books in the front window of the APW in the following photo.

 

Numerous Moth Woman Press publications are also on view inside the gallery and many are available for purchase. 

The displays have been slightly rearranged since our last post, but are equally elegant.

APW Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm.

The APW George Collie Memorial Print Award Exhibition continues to 1 October.

FOTP2018: It's a wrap

L-R: myself, Gracia Haby, Theo Strasser and
Louise Jennison

In the blinking of an eye, or so it seems, the Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair is over for another year. As always, it was a blast, and brilliantly organised by Sticky Institute. We simply don’t know how they do it and make it all appear so effortless. Shane Jones and I met up with a steady stream of terrific people and couldn’t have wished for finer zine stall neighbours than Gracia Haby, Louise Jennison and Theo Strasser.

Directly following is an overview, as seen from the Moth Woman Press stand and environs.

Heartiest thanks to the hordes of people who attended and to our magnanimous hosts, Sticky Institute and Melbourne Town Hall. 

See you all again in 2019.

From top: zines by Theo Strasser, Gracia Haby, Louise Jennison
and Moth Woman Press

Detail of the Moth Woman Press stand

Theo, Louise and Gracia

L-R: Elaine Haby, Peter Haby and Gracia Haby

Maria Colaidis and Theo Strasser

Monica Syrette and Des Cowley

L-R: myself, Priscilla Ambrosini and Shane Jones

L-R: Pictured with Mister Evergreen, Tyler and Tyson, who filmed
a brief segment on our MWP zines for a forthcoming documentary

TONERPALOOZA II ZINE FAIR

The Moth Woman Press stall at TONERPALOOZA II. Photo credit: Shane Jones

It was terrific seeing so many familiar faces among visitors and stall holders alike on day two of the splendid TONERPALOOZA II zine fair, which ran over the past weekend (see previous two posts and Blog Post September 8). We met some lovely people and, thanks to our hosts with the mostest, Sticky Institute and the State Library of Victoria, it all ran like clockwork and we had a ball. Thanks also to Shane Jones for invaluable zine stall assistance.

L - R: Miranda Costa and myself. Photo credit: Shane Jones

Photo credit: Shane Jones

My able assistant, Shane Jones, with TONERPALOOZA II participant, Miranda Costa

Fellow zinesters Gracia and Louise (left) and Miranda Costa (fair right)

Shane Jones

Having Shane to cover for me meant I could periodically stretch my legs, as well as check out the other zine stalls - and very fine they were.

Food is forbidden in the library (quite rightly) so I ate my packed lunch outside the library entrance in the company of a pigeon and a duck which had clearly lost its way (see directly below).

Pictured below and immediately following: Sticky Institute's stall.

Centre: Sticky Institute coordinator, Luke Sinclair

Australian Zine Showcase and Melbourne Art Books Fair

The above photos were snapped yesterday at the Australian Zine Showcase, the newest addition to the annual Melbourne Art Book Fair at NGV International (16 - 19 March). This rotating zine fair has been superbly organised and curated by Sticky Institute. Moth Woman Press was there yesterday, Saturday, 18 March, between 2-30 - 8 pm. (Photo credits: Shane Jones).

Meanwhile, at the Melbourne Art Books Fair in the adjacent Great Hall, Moth Woman Press is ably represented by Esther Gyorki, who is showing a selection of our artist's books at her Assembly Books stand until 5 pm today. (See below - that's Esther on the right). Behind her, next to the Assembly Books sign, is an open copy of our one-of-a-kind artist book, Castles in the Hair (2013).

The 2017 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair

Pictured outside Melbourne Town Hall. Photo credit: Shane Jones.

Featured here are selected highlights from yesterday's sensational Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair. The fact that this ginormous event went off without a hitch was testament to the superb organisational skills of Sticky Institute, the ongoing support of the City of Melbourne, Melbourne's vibrant zine community and the thousands of visitors who came through. With able assistance from Shane Jones and Gracia and Louise as next stall neighbours, could this zinester ask for anything more? I think not. 
(Click on images to enlarge).

Despite the prediction of the poster in the previous photo,
 there were over 200 stalls. Not surprisingly,
the event was fully booked.

When we arrived at 9.30 am there was already a small queue of stallholders.
(The genial doorman, Paul, pictured in the red waistcoat,
has become a valued fixture of this event. When he
 slipped away for only a fleeting moment around opening time, Sticky refused
to open the doors without him. Waiting zinesters enthusiastically
chanted his name until he returned).

Before very long the queue had extended around the corner.

A short time later, it had continued up Collins Street as far as the eye could see. 

The doors were opened to stall holders at 11 am. I'm on the left setting up
alongside zine stall neighbours, Gracia and Louise. Photo: Shane Jones.

Gracia and Louise with their heads down as the setting up process continues.

Shane and I captured in one of the rare quiet moments,
just before the doors were opened and hoards of
zine enthusiasts streamed in. Photo credit: Gracia Haby.

I was very proud of my brand new Moth Woman Press sign.
Photo credit: Shane Jones.

Pictured with more of my zines. To my right is fellow zinester Louise Jennison.
Photo credit: Shane Jones. 

Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison.

L-R front: Gracia Haby, Louise Jennison and Vicki Fowler and back: L-R:
Shane Jones and myself view the zine fair through rose and blue coloured
 glasses (originally intended to be paired with a special G&L 3D zine).
Photo credit: Jill Kellett.

My able zine stall assistant, Shane Jones.

This and the following photo were taken from the Town Hall stage.
 They aim to give some idea of the magnitude of yesterday's crowd.

Melbourne Town Hall's mighty organ, as seen from
our stall 

Thanks for having us, Sticky Institute and City of Melbourne. See you in 2018!