MOTH by Matthew Gandy

It would be very remiss of Moth Woman Press to overlook (Inter)National Moth Week, which begins today. In celebration of this auspicious event, we are showcasing a significant and timely publication: Moth, by Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge. This recently published book includes an image of my painting Argina astrea Moth Mask, 2007 (below, centre).

It is published by Reaktion Books Ltd, UK and distributed in the US through the University of Chicago Press. The book is available through numerous outlets, including Dymocks, Booktopia and Amazon. 

Moth is superbly written and richly illustrated. Needless to add, I’m extremely proud to be a small part of it. For additional page views and further information, visit Deborah Klein's Art Blog.

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.

National Moth Week - A commemorative mini-zine

To mark the occasion of this year's National Moth Week, which runs from 18-26 July, we have produced a set of eight stamps, which we are currently incorporating into a new mini-zine. Like other recent MWP zines, it is made with iPad apps (see also previous post). In this instance, I've employed the apps Square Ready, Pic Collage, Face On Stamps and Strip Designer in combination with selected works from my own Moth Masks series of paintings and drawings. The stamp sets can be viewed on my Art Blog, along with some revelatory information about the Moth Women themselves.

Individual pages of the zine are previewed below: