Digital Culture Talk, National Library of Australia 9 December, 2014 Event blurb: How we read has been evolving since the advent of the internet and mobile devices now mean a good read is never more than a tap away. Rich media, e-books, new channels and other technological… Read MoreWriting
Books are object to be read but also totems that tell stories about us through their physical presence in our lives. Favourite books line our living spaces, their spines display titles and authors that communicate something about us to our guests, and remind us of worlds we have inhabited through reading. Read MoreWriting
Books On Demand is an exhibition of illustrated books produced using print-on-demand services. Also exhibited are some of the prototypes and experiments created through my design process. Print-on-demand services allow anyone with a computer and credit card to quickly and cheaply self-publish a book. The process is simple: the publisher… Read MorePage screen books
For my undergraduate honours project I wrote and designed a book about the future of books in the digital age. It’s written as a conversation between a print book and digital book in a bar. Print book is drowning his sorrows because everyone thinks he’s dying. Digital book is drinking… Read MoreExhibition
Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy is set in a near-future post-apocalyptic age, in which anthropogenic climate change and bio-engineering have catastrophically altered the earth’s ecosystem and inhabitants. As Atwood tells it, humans are directly responsible for mass extinction of plant and animal species, and have unleashed genetically modified creatures… Read MoreExhibition
Gallery blurb: ‘End Game’ is an ongoing collaboration between Todd McMillan and Zoë Sadokierski through which the artists attempt to understand widespread apathy toward environmental issues. The prints in ‘End Game Part 1: Possible Cost of Complacency’ (June 2017) explored nonchalance towards human-induced climate change. No less ambitious or bleak, ‘End Game Part 2: Sleep Well’ focuses… Read MoreWriting
I met photographer, book maker and writer Daniel Milnor through Garry Trinh, while doing events on the indie publishing circuit. Dan and I have had several inspiring conversations about self publishing, book design and creativity. When he was last in Sydney he recorded one for his podcast… Read MoreWriting
(Another Book) After Ed-werd Rew-shay Written, illustrated and designed in one week by Zoë Sadokierski. Printed on the Espresso Book Machine in about 5 minutes, at McNally Jackson bookstore. 52 Prince Street, NYC. 68pp paperback, A5 (148 x 210mm) Mono interior, colour cover… Read MoreDesign
This academic monograph reports a decade of lace-maker Cecilia Heffer’s practice-led research. There is a mix of scholarly writing, personal reflections on Cecilia’s inspiration and creative process, photographs documenting exhibitions and also research and process work. This is an experimental publication model conceived by Zoë Sadokierski for the MediaObject book… Read MorePage screen books
These two concertina photobooks are an homage to L.A. based photographer/artist/book maker Edward Ruscha. While researching artist’s books in New York’s Museum of Modern Art I accidentally became obsessed with Ruscha – or more specifically, how many other people are obsessed with Ruscha’s work. In 2013, MIT press published Various… Read MoreWriting
I made this little book as part of an ongoing collaboration with Tom Lee. Tom writes essays about body parts which I am turn into illustrated books – the first essays on Feet and Teeth were published as Analogue Bodies Vol. 1. As a challenge to myself, I decided to illustrate Tom’s… Read MoreWriting
In a novel that addresses the aftermath of a highly visual catastrophe, photographs communicate in ways that words alone could not. Read MorePage screen books
A book exploring a single passage from Murray Bail’s novel Eucalyptus, in which he compares a paragraph to a paddock. I responded to this passage using photographs, collage, and solar plate etching.The book presents a kind of text analysis – I’m exploring the ideas in Bail’s text by making images that… Read MorePage screen books
A travel narrative about my first trip to Tokyo in 2008 with my friend Kat, illustrated with sketches and collages from my travel diary: With Kat’s sense of direction and my ability to read colours, we managed to negotiate Tokyo’s subway system without incident for four days. Our social… Read MorePage screen books
A travel narrative about Shibu Onsen, a small town in the Nagano region of Japan famous for its thermal baths (onsen). Above Shibu Onsen is a forest where Japanese macaques bath in an outdoor onsen – they are the world’s only bathing monkeys. This book explains the onsen culture for… Read MorePage screen books
The Internet of Good Intentions is a short script written by Chris Caines. As part of a series of collaborations between Chris and I (see also the Durational Book project), I illustrated the script, giving the two characters a visual form, by collaging copyright free photographs and botanical images from The… Read MorePage screen books
One of the books I made for the Duration Book project (a one-week residency at the State Library of NSW, as part of ISEA 2013) in which I materialise a piece of writing by Chris Caines (a quasi-fictional conversation about memory loss) as a flag-fold book. This format allowed me… Read MoreExhibition
When I tell people I wrote my doctoral thesis by hand – 70,000-words, ignoring the vast chunks of discarded text I try not to think about – they invariably laugh. Ridiculous as it may sound, it was the fastest way for me to get the thing done. Read MorePage screen books
Created as part of my Type Horses: Writers and their Typewriters exhibition, this pamphlet documents all the times William S Burroughs mentions typewriters in his novels, and in his personal letters. Read MorePage screen books
For a 2011 exhibition Type Horses: Writers and their typewriters (Blank_Space gallery, Sydney) I produced a series of offset lithographic prints at the Big Fag Press. There was a strip of unused space on the printing plate, so I ran a series of the typewriter drawings from a larger print along the edge,… Read MorePage screen books
This book is one of a series of creative works that address the complex relationships writers have with their writing tools. This book is a visual response to Tom Robbins’ novel Still Life with Woodpecker. Within the novel, the narrator interrupts his story with asides about his writing process. He begins:… Read MoreWriting
The article aims to illustrate ways authors have experimented with typographic devices to literary affect, and to encourage more experimentation with word-image interplay as a storytelling device. Read More
