SELF-MADE at Latrobe Regional Gallery

The Moth Woman Vigilantes, 2011, zine, edition of 80. Collection:
State Library of Victoria. Photo credit: Paul Compton.

Pictured above: our limited edition zine, The Moth Woman Vigilantes, spotted by Paul Compton at Latrobe Regional Gallery in SELF-MADE: ZINES AND ARTIST BOOKS, a touring exhibition from the State Library of Victoria.

The exhibition is ‘... presented by State Library Victoria in partnership with Sticky Institute, and supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Visions regional touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians’. 
- From the Latrobe Regional Gallery website.

SELF MADE opened on 10 August and runs to 10 November 2019
https://latroberegionalgallery.com/project/7223/

Moth Woman Press on the move

A copy of Leaves of Absence (2017), our unbound artist book, has just been reserved by the State Library of Victoria. The book is pictured below in our Abbotsford study. Shortly thereafter it was packaged up in readiness for delivery to the library, where it was placed in the capable hands of Des Cowley, History of the Book Manager/Collection Development and Discovery.

Meanwhile, as previously announced, next Friday, 16 March, between 2.30 - 3.15 pm, I'm participating in Regional Arts Words (RAW), a panel discussion hosted by Regional Arts Australia at Melbourne Art Book Fair 2018. My contribution will include a show and tell of Leaves of Absence, a project that sprung unexpectedly to life during a walk in Newstead Forest in the Victorian goldfields. 

As I write, the presses are rolling for Fallen Women, the little book we've made especially for the book fair. Early this week we okayed the final proofs and mockup (pictured below). Fallen Women contains a selection of works that were made subsequent to Leaves of Absence, preceded by a short fairy tale. Although it's a stand alone publication, Fallen Women is the key that unlocks the secret of the mysterious Shadow Women in Leaves of Absence. The book will be available from the Regional Arts Australia stand and I'll have some extra copies with me at the RAW talk.

RAW will be the sole voice of Australian regional arts at the book fair, so do come along if you can.

For full details of RAW and Melbourne Art Book Fair 2018, scroll down to our last post.

In further news, the State Library of Victoria/Sticky Institute show Self-made: Zines and Artist Books continues its run, opening today, 9 March, at Bunjil Place. Included in the exhibition are Moth Woman Press zines Tattooed Faces and Moth Woman Vigilantes. Self-made runs until 29 April. For full details, go HERE.

An installation view is directly below. Photo credit: Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison.

SELF-MADE: ZINES AND ARTIST BOOKS

Dashing around central Melbourne in between Melbourne International Film Festival venues, I happened upon this poster (x2) for SELF-MADE: ZINES AND ARTIST BOOKS, a free exhibition at the State Library of Victoria. It opened yesterday, 11 August, and runs until 12 November. Two Moth Woman Press zines, Tattooed Faces and Moth Woman Vigilantes, are part of the show, which was curated by Monica Syrette. I haven't had a chance to see it yet because of back-to-back MIFF movies (I'm seeing 55 films over 16 days - I just did a count) but look forward to dropping by next week on a day of less solidly booked screenings. 

A link to the exhibition and related events is HERE.

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!

2016 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair

Aside from a couple of minor tasks, my work for the zine fair is done. If you are in the area on Sunday afternoon, do call in and stop by the Moth Woman Press table to say hello. An invitation of your very own is here:

Left: FOTP 2016 poster; righthand column: a selection of Moth Woman Press zines

A mini-zine in the making: 2015 Mothstralian Postage Stamps

With the dust barely settled on this year's National Moth Week, the commemorative publication previewed in our previous post is well under way. Full details of the mini-zine Mothstralian Postage Stamps 2015, a signed and numbered limited edition of 100, will be posted soon.

New Mini-Zines Part 2: Moth Women

The second zine made for Homo-insecta, my solo show at the Art Vault (see previous post) is the first of three Moth Women mini-zines. The images were sourced from the Moth Masks series of paintings and drawings I made between 2007 and 2010. The mythical Moth Women were not only the subject of one of my first fairy tales, they were also forerunners of the infamous Moth Women Vigilantes.

Directly below is a preview of the work, including cover art and selected page views. Directly following it is your very own invitation to the exhibition, which opens at 6 - 7 pm on Wednesday 26 November.

Moth Women - a mini zine, 2014, photocopy
10.5 x 7.5 cm edition 100

More Moth Women Vigilantes

Two more images destined for the forthcoming zine Moth Woman Vigilantes.

A new zine in the making

The notorious Moth Woman Vigilantes that have been appearing in my sketchbook of late will eventually be captured and placed in a forthcoming zine. The last two drawings have previously been seen on my Art Blog but are reproduced here in a slightly more evolved state, most notably with the edition of the Moth Woman Vigilantes logo, which I have spent an inordinate amount of time (as well as having a great deal of fun) designing over the last couple of weeks.