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Exchanges from grunt gallery

September 26, 2024 · by Lois

A view of five zines lying in a small pile on a wooden table.

The first event to celebrate publications in the series RML3: Undercurrents and Folds at grunt gallery in Vancouver drew a large crowd. And, some of those lovely people also brought zines to trade! The event highlighted Sarah Shamash's insightful …

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Mail Art Report: 3 books

March 5, 2024 · by Lois

The exhibition catalogue, in the form of a stapled brochure, is seen open to its first page. The artists' names (Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon) are printed on the right side along with the title, "Near Dwellers as Legal Beings". On the right the inside cover features an image of a coyote at the edge of a forest-lined body of water.

So far in 2024 three publications have landed in my hands. Fawn Daphne Plessner recently left a copy of the exhibition brochure Near Dwellers as Legal Beings in my work mail box. It is from a 2023 exhibition at The Tree Museum & Street Road …

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Happy Exchanges from 37 Looe Street

October 3, 2023 · by Lois

A birds eye view of the artist books and ephemera that were received in exchange for books in the Reading the Migration Library exchange event at 37 Looe Stree in Plymouth, UK on September 19, 2023. In clockwise order starting top left, colour printed cards and poster from "Ruptured Domesticity" project, a handwritten lyric sheet on ruled paper by Mo Bottomley, a small colou-printed 'zine titled "Episode in two flats and an office" by Sef Penrose, a colour printed and coil-bound picture book called "The Leak" by Tim Britton, a thick, hardcover artist monogram titled "Four Hundred and Twenty-nine Significant Moments: Documenting an Artist's Research and Processes" by Lisa Watts, a grey artist's catalogue called "Materials of Resistance" by Clare Thornton, and a sheaf of loose printed papers making up a publications called "Neighbourhood 1. (Series 1:3 2021) by Merrydith Russell.

In September, 2023 the RML project was featured in a week-long artist residency and artist talk and book exchange event at 37 Looe Street, Plymouth, UK. 37 Looe Street is a wonderful small-scale arts centre in an historic site that once held a …

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Mail art from The Poem Factory (Ed Varney)

December 3, 2022 · by Lois

Two book chapbooks and a sheet of 4 artist-stamps. Books: "Walking the Dog" with line drawing of Setter pointing nose to right; Ineffable Mystical Poems: with 5 pointed star coloured yellow with eyes on the top point; stamps - with line drawing of stone with "Mondo Postal 10" as title.

This nice packet of paper goods came in the mail from Ed Varney's "The Poem Factory" in Courtney, BC (on Vancouver Island). I initiated the exchange by sending the DADA of mail art 2 full sets of RML books (with a few more poetry chapbooks, added …

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La bibliothèque Liza Leyla

May 18, 2022 · by Lois

Four books by Liza Leyla are lying on a grey surface. Three feature paintings by the writer. One features a photo of the writer.

Moving studio contents this week, I found four small books that were mailed as mail art to me from the prolific and generous Brussels-based writer, Liza Leyla (Eliza Muylaert). Leyla is diligent about sending publications addressed to Renegade …

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