2hrs north is a collaborative project, which has asked Newcastle based photographers to capture all the individual and diverse suburbs making up the city. Each suburb is then printed within a 32 page photo book, forming a 12 book set documenting our city in its entirety.
5 Press is a collective of five Melbourne based artists brought together by an appreciation of handmade books and prints. The aim of the collective is to investigate these mediums, exploring the intimate experience of interacting with handmade objects.
Alphabet City Press is Avril Makula, an award-winning book designer, bookbinder, and book artist. Alphabet City Press makes one-off and editioned artists books.All the books are hand-made, and explore ideas through typography, the alphabet, numbers, colour and design.
Joy of Txt began life on a battered Nokia 3310 in London in 2002 and has been recharged for VOLUME 2015. Anthony's work explores the impact mobile phones have had on our daily lives and the way we communicate. His previous zine 'Nervous System' was featured in the Thames & Hudson book Fanzines (Teal Triggs, 2010).
Apropos.Provisional is a curated artist-run initiative dedicated to the exhibition and trade of local contemporary art and excellence in publishing. The reading room and gallery are now open at Apropos.Provisional in Perth.
Archer Magazine is an independent journal of sexual diversity, started in Melbourne in 2013. The print edition is published twice-yearly, and takes a snapshot of Australia's and the world's attitudes to sexuality, gender and identity at the time of publication.
ARTAND collaborates with artists on limited edition objects and books. We are not-for-profit and are committed to promoting contemporary practices, education, and supporting cross-disciplinary creative projects.
Artist Collective is a group of contemporary artists with diverse insight into the concept and practice of Sydney's emerging artists. Here they present a series of self published titles, made independently and collaboratively, conveying ideals in sincerity and the belief that from process comes concept.
The Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive (APPA), is a not-for-profit physical archive of self-published and independent photobooks established to promote the production, dissemination and discussion of photobooks from the Asia-Pacific region.
The APPA provides a ‘real’ way to see photobooks with a permanent space in Melbourne open to the public, and a program of events at photography festivals, and institutions all over the world. Since 2013 the Archive has held events in Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Cambodia, Malaysia, Dublin, New York, Washington DC and San Francisco.
We are a young, online and biannual print publication with an old soul, exploring the culture of living closer together and small footprint life. We cover art, design, architecture, urbanism, the environment, and financial affairs.
BIG EGO BOOKS is a new Sydney based online bookseller specialising in esoteric and hard-to-find titles. Hand-picked are only the best books, covering a wide range of subjects, including art, photography, architecture, interiors, and fashion. BIG EGO BOOKS is carefully curated by artists Emily Hunt and Raquel Caballero, the duo behind DUKE Magazine, a satirical journal which spoofed traditional and current magazines.
The Big Fag Press is a Sydney-based Artist Run Initiative. We use our 4-tonne offset proofing press to print limited edition works by artists and designers. We are committed to the development of creative partnerships with artists and the wider community, providing access to high-quality offset printing, artist residencies, internships and community engagement projects.
Black Eye Gallery exhibits contemporary photography and is committed to representing the photographic art-form from both established and emerging artists. Black Eye Gallery also stocks limited edition fine art publications from Australia's leading photographers and publishers.
Blurb is a self publishing and marketing platform that makes it easy for anyone to design, publish, promote and sell professional-quality printed books, magazines and eBooks. Blurb authors have created millions of books using our full suite of free book-making tools. Today a new book is created at Blurb every minute.
Books at Manic have been importing and distributing books on contemporary culture for more than twenty years. We aim to make available books on art, design and architecture from high quality publishers around the world that fall outside the scope of the mainstream publishing industry in Australia.
Bookwork Press is a Sydney based independent publisher of visual essays, artist’s books, and illustrated editions, founded in 2015 by designer and writer Zoë Sadokierski.
Brunswick Street Gallery is a platform for the exhibition of diverse creative practices. Since opening its doors in 2007, the gallery has maintained a persistent dedication to providing space for emerging art practices to be viewed and experienced. Our goal is to create an accessible environment where artists can find recognition and new collectors can engage.
In descending order of accuracy, Cameron James Cope is an MFA candidate, image conjurer, purveyor of word stimulants, travel fiend, and cat burglar. His ascending order of priorities are teaching photography, writing/photographing editorial features, and exploring contemporary legacies of the colonial past through art practice.
Campbelltown Arts Centre is a contemporary arts centre in Sydney’s south west. It presents visual arts, music, dance, performance, and live arts. For VOLUME 2015, the art centre will present a selection of catalogues from recent exhibitions.
Cedar Leisohn is an artist, writer, and curator. Through his studio practice he explores cultural narratives from various historic positions. He is also interested in various forms of publishing, bookmaking and alternative platforms for the display and dissemination of art. This is often where his studio practice over-laps with curatorial projects.
China Heights Gallery is a Sydney based gallery and studio, established in 2004, exhibiting both local and international artists. The independent gallery focuses on emerging and established artists alike, producing and distributing short run books, prints, zines, and artist editions.
Chris Mansell's work embodies the intersectionality of object and word; materiality deepens and interrogates the text. In preferencing some aspects of language, reading and comprehension is changed. The Quiet Book, for example, dispenses with lexical content and leaves only structure. RUBRICS, however, occludes, then slowly reveals, possible poems within poems. Stung More and Words, mainly hinges further explores this.
Corraini Edizioni is a publishing house and an art gallery based in Italy. It is a publishing workshop open to artists, illustrators and designers to create books. Publications traverse artists books for children, design, illustration, and contemporary art. Bruno Munari stands out among our numerous collaborations.
Deidre Brollo is an artist who works primarily with artists’ books, print media, and installation. Her work is an ongoing consideration of memory as it relates to time, place, and materiality. She uses the interactivity of the book form as a means of engaging haptic memory and perception.
Deanna Hitti's is a printmaker based in Melbourne, Australia. Her artists' books have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. They have been selected for numerous Australian print awards and are acquired by major collections in Australia including The State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia.
Diane Inc. is a very small time publishing house from Melbourne. As the internet becomes more inundated with images, they lose the power that they have when viewed in print, and that's essentially the reason we exist. We work with local and international photographers, artists and designers, with everything we do being a run of a hundred or less.
Providing an Australian perspective on local and international queer community, arts and culture, Dirty Queer Magazine is independently published in Sydney, since 2010. We focus on in-depth features and photo essays, presenting established and emerging talent with diverse genders, sexes, ages, ethnicities, and body types. With six issues under our belt, the magazine is collectible, building a body of work around queer culture, arts, and community.
Discipline is a publisher and contemporary art journal edited by Nicholas Croggon, David Homewood, and Helen Hughes. Alongside artist pages and interviews, it publishes research essays about contemporary Australian art, and histories and theories of contemporary art as a global industry or phenomenon.
Lives of the Artists was an art magazine edited, printed and published by artist Elizabeth Pulie in the years 2002-2005. The content, provided by local artists and friends, included reviews, articles, essays, interviews and artist's pages, and maintained a focus on the artist as personality and an interest in the details of artist's lives.
Omo Books is a queer imprint presenting the creative outputs of people who relate to difference and otherness in their sexuality, gender or way of being.
Being exhibited at VOLUME 2015 is a catalogue for the self-portrait group show "My Unique self" curated by Flora Mavrommati. The art book is edited by Flora Mavrommati and includes all artists' statements, images of the works, paintings, photographs, glass, collages, poetry, songs, videos, and live performances. In the exhibition participated thirty-five artists from Australia, Europe, and America.
Formist make carefully considered products, objects and editions. Mediums vary from traditional publications, to artists editions and limited books, to digital editions, typefaces, prints and posters. Every edition is an endeavour to share content that is progressive and beautiful.
Gertrude Contemporary is an art gallery and studio complex in Melbourne, Australia. With the artist placed firmly at the centre of its community, Gertrude Contemporary fosters a culture of risk, collaboration, and critical-thinking. It is a dynamic centre for the production and presentation of contemporary art.
The Good Copy is a writing studio, a shop, a school and a publisher. Do we even know what we’re doing omg why are we doing all these things at once? Because we think it might only work if you do it all at once.
Grey Projects is an arts platform for publication, curatorial, and exchange activities. We support nascent practices with exhibitions, writings, and residencies, among other resources. We look for art experiments, design propositions, new writing, and curatorial practices. As a venue, Grey Projects is a workspace, library, gallery, studio, and residency space.
Hatje Cantz Verlag is an esteemed German art and photography publisher. They produce premium books that are produced in close collaboration with artists and curators. With extremely high production, design and editorial standards, their profile has always been shaped by tradition and avant-garde from all over the world.
The Institute of Modern Art (IMA) has been a leading independent space in Australia for forty years. The IMA has a longstanding commitment to research and a rich history of publishing critical readers, exhibition catalogues, and artist monographs. In 2014, the IMA started a partnership with Berlin based Motto Distribution.
OUT OF THE DARK brings together thirty-four years practise, in ten chapters each with introductory text, eighty-two images from ten projects. The majority are mono-chrome, but the more recent work is in colour. Respect for, and the dignity shown by those photographed, is the vein paramount in this mostly analogue work.
"I scan my body, part by part. Scalp, face, ears, throat... moving through flesh, muscle, organs and joints until I reach my toes." Golding's 2015 self-published photobook 'Within You Without You' presents a meditation in twenty images.
Keg de Souza is an artist and bookbinder who has been self-publishing zines and artist’s books under the name All Thumbs Press for over fifteen years. On display you will find Keg de Souza’s illustrated hand-bound editions, one with a 7” record soundtrack.
Hi, my name's Kenny Pittock. I'm a 27 year old artist from Melbourne. At my stall is a collection of self published books I've made compiling some of my drawings and writing. I think you'd like them. Come say hi and have a look. Please don't make me beg.
KNOWLEDGE EDITIONS is an independent publisher of printed matter that investigates and analyses the world through archival knowledge by: cataloguing, collecting, documenting, and seriality.
KRASS Journal is a bi-annual arts and culture journal. With the tag line independent, ambitious, gracefully impolite, KRASS Journal publishes diverse opinions and thoughts. Issue 1 features conversations with provocateurs and photographers, human rights lawyers and political activists. KRASS Journal is an ode to the defiant and the curious.
Künstler is a magazine and book store in Brisbane, Australia that specialises in independent and small-press publications about art, design, fashion, food and society.
Ladies of Leisure (LOL) is a publication about up and coming creative women. We want to excite, inspire and encourage through profiling women who are making it happen on their own and providing insights as to how they're doing it. LOL is a community that celebrates strength, weakness, success and process.
Leigh Rigozzi is a Sydney based artist and zine maker. He has exhibited in various locations around Australia, self-published dozens of zines, and edited two editions of Australian comics anthology Blood & Thunder.
M.33 specialises in contemporary photography. We work collaboratively with artists and designers to produce books which aim for a balance between thoughtful content and excellent design. M.33 has published some of Australia’s most interesting photographic artists including Jane Burton, Darren Sylvester, Jesse Marlow, Janina Green, Drew Pettifer and Peter Milne.
Founded by Michael Mack in 2010, following two decades working alongside legendary German publisher Gerhard Steidl, MACK is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading contemporary publishers making autonomous book works with photographers, artists and curators. While publishing the work of highly regarded photographers and artists such as Paul Graham, Alec Soth, Luigi Ghirri, Collier Schorr, Thomas Demand, Ron Jude and Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, the publisher has also made a name for helping break new talent, with several of MACK’s most popular titles featuring the work of a younger generation of photographers such a J Carrier, Christian Patterson, Joanna Piotrowska and Aleix Plademunt.
Momento Pro is Australia's oldest on-demand book service, dedicated to producing premium hardcover and softcover books for professional photographers and artists. Digital offset and inkjet printing is available, and our new Volume Order formats and pricing are designed for creatives wishing to self-publish limited editions of 25 to 250 book.
No One Special is a DIY publishing house based in Coburg, Australia. We release books, zines, and music. We are influenced by our immediate surroundings and what it means to produce physical objects in the internet age.
Nola Farman is an interdisciplinary artist with a diverse practice. Her primary focus is on the book in its codex form. As such, it is kinetic and participatory. At best, the meaning of each book can only be understood when in the hands of the reader. The Garden Path Press.
Presenting a feast on a table with disparate publications by remarkable artists demonstrating willingness for risk, all introducing plasticity as antidote to rigidity of status quo; INCLUDED ARTISTS are invited for periodic attendance at the table to dialogue with the public.
After six years of publishing Das Superpaper in Australia, Das Platforms is proud to announce the launch of Oberon, a new international, bi-annual magazine. Oberon presents the best of international contemporary art in the world of literature, philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, history, law, and science. In your carry-on or on your coffee-table Oberon is your companion to the world of art.
In 2000, Mélanie Scarciglia and Christophe Boutin co-founded onestar press, a publishing house dedicated to the publication of books and multiples created by more than 300 international artists among them: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huyghe, Jonathan Monk, Slavs and Tatars and Lawrence Weiner.
OSMOS is both a project space in the East Village of Manhattan and a publishing program of artists and photographers. With OSMOS Books, OSMOS Magazine, OSMOS Editions and Exhibitions, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz has developed her independent endeavor into a uniquely integrated concept for international curatorial and editorial activities.
Performance Space is Australia's crucible for risk-taking artists. Emerging over 30 years ago in response to artists’ articulated desire to explore and investigate new forms of art, Performance Space has consistently identified, nurtured and presented new directions in contemporary practice. We champion risk, experimentation, and new modes of creative expression.
The Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts is a leading multi-disciplinary arts organisation and has been publishing a multitude of publications for solo and group exhibitions, niche artist projects, editions and more, for over twenty-five years. PICA will also be exhibiting a selection of independent publications from previous and future collaborating artists.
Dr Peter Hill is a Glasgow-born Australian artist, writer and independent curator. For over 25 years he has been creating what he calls Superfictions. These hybrid artworks exist in the gap between installation art and literary fiction.
The Bachelor of Design in Photography and Situated Media at UTS is a degree program that explores the image in terms of its cultural history, material uses and social implications. PSM equips its graduates with the visual literacy and technical skills they require to hold leading positions in image-based design professions.
PITCH Zine is an independent digital publication focusing on emerging talent from global fashion, art, and design. Created in early 2011, PITCH bridges the gap between start-ups, forward-thinkers and established figures within the Australian and international creative industries.
The photography department at Raffles College Parramatta requires students to create printed works throughout their degree, impressing the importance of print in an age of digital technology. On display are a variety of publications, both traditional and conceptual, by Raffles College staff, students, and graduates.
Sex, humor and satire are what artist Rural Ranga loves. Growing up in country Victoria, he hustled his way to NYC to work at MoMA and exhibit at the New York Art Book Fair at PS1. His books Wank Bank and HOMOlita are two playful documentations of human behaviour.
Founded in 1998 and now in its third form, Red Hand Prints is a private workshop primary focused in the work of Franck Gohier, Chayni Hanry, and other selected artists. They produce fine art prints that cover a range of issues including cultural concerns, politics and satire, many of which hold a strong regional focus upon the Northern Territory.
Remote Photo Books distributes select photobooks and photo-related publications from both established and emerging photographers, photobook makers and independent publishers in New Zealand.
Runway is an independent Australian experimental art journal run by a collective of Australian artists, writers and curators based in Australia and internationally. Published three times annually, free and online, Runway includes features, interviews, artist commissions, reviews, and international updates. Issues are organised thematically, with content commissioned from open callouts.
Russian Glue Press is an independent publishing press based in Melbourne, Australia, focusing on limited photography zines, books, and other printed goods.
Schwartz City publish many of Australia's finest leading artists, including Shaun Gladwell, Mike Parr, Marco Fusinato, Dale Frank and Danielvon Sturrner. We are proud to announce the 2015 release of Marco Fusinato's monograph 'Let's Destroy Work' and Daniel von Stumer's 'Focus & Field'.
Speakeasy Cinema is a film series that has been gypsying around Melbourne since 2009. It now has its own home in the saw-toothed mansions of Grey Gardens, Fitzroy. We screen the overlooked and underseen, and films that we think are worth talking about, on, or off the rocks.
Somewhere between survey and collection, State Team WA is a touring cohort representing Western Australian based artists. We engage with the geographical isolation of our home through the physical distribution of artist publications; creating transportable, tactile experiences to engage audiences, open dialogues and instigate collaborations.
Exhibited are Stephen Dupont’s limited edition hand-made photo artist books and small print run published books. Exclusive launch of the limited edition book of one hundred of Stephen Dupont’s new steidl book, generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993-2012.
Surpllus is an independent publisher of printed matter pertaining to critical and speculative practices across art, design, architecture, writing, and curation. Projects include (but are not limited to) artists’ books and zines, monographs, archival studies, exhibition catalogues, and critical writing and theory.
Tai Snaith is a Melbourne based visual artist and author. Tai has recently published two picture books; The Family Hour in Australia (2012) and Sticks and Stones, Animal Homes (2014), with Thames and Hudson. Tai will have two self-published artist’s books available; Free (2013) and Portrait of a Sunday Painter (2015).
The Rizzeria is a collective of self-publishers and printmakers in Sydney, Australia. We own an RP3700 Risograph stencil press that we make available for public use through open print sessions.
Three Star Books, founded in 2007, aims to render significant subjects into significant forms. Following their trademark of finely crafted, hand-made objects, each title closely follows the indications of the artist, elaborated in close discussion with the publishers. Artists published include Tauba Auerbach, John Baldessari, Maurizio Cattelan and Lawrence Weiner to name a few.
Thorny Devil Press began publishing word-art-works by Richard Kelly Tipping in 1989. These include artist book folios of letterpress and screen prints, pressed-aluminium signs, sculpture multiples, photographic, and visual poetry books. Selected Thorny Devil Press publications are distributed through Printed Matter and MoMA Store NYC, and are in print collections including the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Australia.
Throwdown Press was established in 2012 to research experimentation in print process, and to facilitate and foster dialogue to promote the broad methodological potential of printmaking in a contemporary art practice.
A small number of rare first editions of books from the 70’s available. ‘A Pedestrian Series of Postcards’ [American Institute of Graphic Arts Award 1977,] and ‘Not Ceasing to Loiter’ Adelaide 1975.
Try Hard Editions is the in-house publishing imprint of Try Hard Magazine. Launching in 2015 it focuses on publishing limited-run artist books featuring Australian photographers.
un Projects is an artist-led initiative that exists to generate independent and critical dialogue around Australian contemporary art. un Magazine, its flagship publication, has been published in Melbourne since 2004. With a focus on artists, artist-run initiatives and independent projects, un Magazine is a free, biannual magazine that is published both in print and online.
Uro is a specialist publisher dedicated to the creation of authoritative and critically rigorous books on architecture and design. Established in 2009, the company is run by Andrew Mackenzie and Maitiú Ward, both former editors of the magazines Architectural Review Australia and (Inside) Interior Design Review.
The West Space Journal is an online platform for criticism and commissions published twice a year. Our contributors are artists, writers, designers and musicians who have a particular interest in the critical dialogue surrounding contemporary art and its application online.
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