Below is a catalogue of some of the zines I have made with summaries describing the content of them, they are however, best viewed in person.
SAPPHOS (2024)
SAPPHOS was written for Auckland Zinefests 24 Hours Zinemaking competition in 2024, with the drawn subjects ‘Narrative’ and ‘History’. Through interviews and first hand accounts it documents the conception and life of hybrid sapphic space ‘SAPPHOS’. The zine inhabits the spirit of sapphic spaces, the life altering experiences they impart, the important bonds forged amongst them by queers searching for connection, acceptance, community and most of all space to live truely and joyously as themselves.
We Make The Space Work (2024)
Text and artworks created to accompany my first solo exhibition ‘We Make The Space Work’.
This zine reflects on the ways in which we as queer people inhabit space, create space, navigate the challenges of spaces in a heteronormative society. The impact of space we must contort ourselves to fit into and space that embraces us unequovically.
It won ‘Runner Up’ for Best Narrative Zine at the Auckland Zinefest 2024 awards
Cold Mash (2023)
Corporate life fucks with creative output - a year I bigtime conceptualized, only to trip up and almost leave empty handed, which felt soul crushing until a zine came together at the last moment in a way that taught me things about my creative practice and queer self. Cold Mash is just enough and not enough - It cuts its way out from the belly of the beast to dance with erotic artworks, queer theory and the journey of searching for reflections of one's queerness in art, history and culture.
Bundle of Sticks (2022)
The many definations of the word ‘faggot’ act as vehicles to explore a facet of the queer experience. This zine journeys through the documentations of locally collected bundles of sticks, definitions of faggot and experiences with faggot, of faggotry. It questions what is this word to this queer and other queers past, present, and future.
It won ‘Runner Up’ for Best Narrative Zine at the Auckland Zinefest 2022 awards.
Hero to One (2021)
Hero to One was my debut queer art zine, completed over several years using drawing and photography. It won Best Art Zine at Auckland Zinefests 2021 awards. Described as 'necessary and radical' by the judges, it's a peek into the intimacy shared between two queer lovers in their domestic space. Its creation was spurred by a longing to see reflections of my queerness in the world around me, a common queer experience, resolving that if I could not find these reflections I would have to create them myself.
Do What You Want Do Not Listen To Anyone (2021)
‘Nonsense’ zines as I call them are a kind of therapy exercise for me. This is one of the best of those, drawn on lunchbreaks during yet another tedious low level office job when I would escape to sit on the waterfront. Its quality nonsense, because its not entirely nonsensical, its channeling little thoughts from the back of your mind and things you have vague memories of doing once. @overcommag described it as ‘impossible to describe. It's so good’ and Chloe Swarbrick bought a copy on its first run.
Bus I // Bus II (2017)
Bus I and Bus II were written and drawn during my regular bus commute to and from my first full-time job as an administrator in financial services. Drifting far from the fine arts degree I had just finished, these ‘slice of life’ zines were a lifeline for my creative output, tethering me to the world around me, and the uncertain future ahead of me. They document observations and thoughts during my commute, the style influenced by the rhythms of a moving bus, and subtle sweetness of observing strangers going about their lives.