Playing favourites.

{Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes, a new zine for 2016.}

Alongside earlier titles, this Sunday, we'll have three new zines on our table as part of Sticky Institute's annual Zine Fair at the Melbourne Town Hall. One, a splendid pocket-sized parrot zine by Louise from the feathered-tail end of last year, which we never quite made it around to releasing into the wild; another, a collaborative zine, featuring the a quartet of Louise's drawings in response to a suite of cartes de visite collages (created as part of the group exhibition, Animal Instinct); and the third, a small zine of costumed unknowns selected primarily because they are, for varied reasons, my favourites.

Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes is an edition of 100, and it will be available at the fair for $3.00.

After the fair, all three titles will be available through our online store.


{In the borrowed costume from Petrouchka, designed by Alexandre Benois, c 1911, with a Burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia).}}


{In the borrowed costume for a Little God from Le Dieu bleu, after Léon Bakst, 1912, with an Eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris).}


{In the borrowed costume for a Young Man from The Rite of Spring, after Nicholas Roerich, 1913, with a Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus).}


{In the borrowed costume worn by Fyodor Chaliapin in the Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov for Diaghilev’s Saison Russes, after Alekandr Golovin, c 1908, with a Western tarsier (Tarsius bancanus).}


{In the borrowed costume from The Sleeping Princess, c. 1921, designed by Léon Bakst, with a an Indri (Indri indri) and a Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).}


{In the borrowed costume for Vaslav Nijinsky as the Prince from the pas de deux L’Oiseau et la Prince, after Léon Bakst, 1914, with a Northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans).}


{With a Russian (Vladimir) doll from the second half of the 18th century's headpiece of glass, pearls, linen, cotton and wood. (A #SalvagedRelatives collage on a carte de visite, with an accomplished climber, the Slow loris.)}

Sticky Institute presents
Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair
Melbourne Town Hall
Sunday 14th of February
From 12 noon to 5 pm

See you there!



+ Roughly this time last year...

+ 2015
+ 2014 (take II)
+ 2013
+ 2011
+ 2010
+ 2008