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16th May 2012
Just did the poster for this years Zine Fair. Looking forward to it already. Hoping to have a good selection of new publications done specially for the event. If you haven't booked your table/half table yet, do it now!!!
4th May 2012
I have been busy zining again! Here's my latest creation -Love Lomo! I made this artist book to accompany the exhibition of the same name that I curated at the Ranelagh Arts Centre. It features photographs taken on lomography camera by ten different artists. Each photo is partnered with a write up by each artist about how they discovered lomo photography and why they love it! The exhibition finishes up on Friday, the show truely has some amazing images and has gotten a great response. A lot of hard labour went into these beauties! I embossed and drew a lomo camera on the cover of each book and sowed the pages together by hand. There's a step by step guide of how I made Love Lomo Zine on my artist blog!
6th March 2012
A new zine is hot off the press!
"The Wishing Tree" zine documents a selection of the thousands of wishings hung on the wishing tree at Electric Picnic Music and Arts Festival 2011. The Wishing Tree was part of a larger project called "Something About Mary" by Rosita Sweetman. Some of the wishes are inspiring, some heartbreaking and others are hilarious! Here's some images of the zine! It's available to buy on my etsy shop in the side bar and on this site.
31st December 2011
This will be my last blog post of 2011! It's been a good year! I'm really looking forward to a really creative and exciting 2012! Here's a photo of people browsing the Dublin Art Book Fair! Photo taken from by Jane O'Sullivan's daughter. Check out Jane's blog and her daughter Roisin's, they will inspire you!! http://janeosullivan.blogspot.com/ http://massesareasses.tumblr.com/
I was delighted with my sales at the Fair. 2011 has been a good year for zines, artist books and independent publishing in general,lets hope this trend will grow in 2012!
I also got interviewed recently for Griffith College's new magazine "Deadline" about the Dublin Zine Fair I founded in August. Thanks to Johnathon Keane for asking me and posting me out copy, it's always lovely to get post!
Now I'm off to celebrate! Happy New Year!!!!
6th December 2011
It's been a great couple of weeks for Baby BEEF recently with a visit to the first ever Berlin Zine Fest the last weekend in November and the first ever Dublin Art Book Fair in Temple Bar Gallery last weekend. I made a new zine called "Grimm" in German and English specially for the Berlin Zine Fest and dropped in a selection of my different publications to the Dublin Art Book Fair. I'll post up photos of the events soon!
I'm hoping to have the new issue of "Nostalgia" ready for my stall at the Dublin Flea Market this month. It's the Christmas market so I'm delighted to get a place at it! So pop down to the Food Co-op building in Newmarket Square on Sunday the 18th of December and come say hello! My stall will be full of arty goodness, handmade posters, calenders and notebooks. My mam has made some beautiful aprons for the market and my friend Sinead has lots of crafts, including DIY crochet kits! So we're really looking forward to it, hope to see you there!
27th September 2011
Lou Walker posted these videos on her blog of Gypsy Rebel Rabble playing at the zine fair. These guys are legends, thanks guys for playing you really started the day off great and calmed my nerves at the beginning of the day!! Thanks to Lou Walker and Emma Elisabeth for their blogs about the Dublin Zine Fair!!
15th September 2011
The first Dublin Zine Fair was a huge success! We had over twenty stalls full of independently produced zines, artist books, comics and artwork! Gyspy Rebel Rabble started off the day with some great music to get us all in the mood, with Tim on his double bass in the window!
Ranelagh Arts Centre was packed all day long! At the end of the day we had a screening of "$100 and a t-shirt", a documentary about zines and zine makers in Portland, Oregon, which was quite funny and an enjoyable end to the day! I was delighted by the reaction and positive vibes the fair received.
Sinead Gleeson who wrote the article in the Irish Times even came along. To put the icing on the cake I sold probably the most zines I have ever sold in one day! I launched my latest art zine "Nostalgia" on the day and people seemed to really love it. Here's some photos from the great day!
I have so many great photos of the event I'm going to put up a Dublin Zine Fair 2011 gallery, watch this space!!
24th August 2011
Just days to go to the first annual Dublin Zine Fair that I'm putting on in the Ranelagh Arts Centre! My new zine is printed, bound and ready for its debut! The catalogue of exhibitors is printed, ready and waiting for the day! The Irish Times wrote an article about the fair and it was put into Le Cool magazines listings too, so I'm hoping for a great turn out! I'm hoping this will be the start of a brilliant annual fair, that will grow every year and inspire people to make zines and get involved in the zine scene! See you there on Saturday!!
17th July 2011
Last Saturday I took part in a bookmaking workshop at the National Print Museum. Our tutor brought a collection of artist books to inspire us and we all had good fun seeing what each other came up with. I made three unique artist books of rubbings from the old printing presses in the museum, some of them were from old Sunday Times newspaper metal sheets. I created collages of the different texts, letters and images I found on the presses, and bound then in brown card with an acordian bind. I titled them "Death of the Letterpress".
Also here's the cover of the latest Dime Zine with R.L. Burnside on the cover!
4th July 2011
I'm delighted to announce the Dublin Zine Fair 2011 will take place in the Ranelagh Arts Centre on Saturday 27th of August! I'm planning the event as part of my new job as artistic director of the arts centre. It suits me down to the ground, because I planned on running a Zine Fair anyway! Read the details about the event below!
The fair will showcase the best in zines, artist books, comics and independent publications from Ireland and the UK from 12pm - 5pm.
The event will be accompanied by live music from rockabilly blues band Gypsy Rebel Rabble, an exhibition by artist Andrea Byrne, and will be followed by a screening of zine documentart "$100 and a T-shirt" at 6pm with popcorn!! The day promises to be full of great art, creativity and positive vibes. Pop down and you will be inspired!
21st June 2011
I'm delighted to announce the release of "Unfurling of the Rose" by Irish Poet/Songwriter David Brennan. Andrea did the layout and illustrated the publication for David, and we are pleased to add it to the list of Baby BEEF publications! Click the image below for more information!
1st June 2011
Finally got a copy of the Hotpress feature about us, click to enlarge!
27th May 2011
I am delighted to annouce that I am planning a Zine Fair to take place at the Ranelagh Arts Centre on 27th of August! There's is already 14 stalls confirmed! It's going to be a great day with live music provided by Gypsy Rebel Rabble and will be followed by a screening of "100 Dollars and a T-shirt" a documentary about zines and zine makers from Portland, Oregon and I'll be giving out popcorn to make it even more fun!! Yay!! Can't wait! Poster coming soon!
Dime Zine June, the Knockanstockan Festival Special!
16th May 2011
So bad news zine lovers, Summer Edition Zine Fair in Filmbase is not on this summer! :( But never fear because I am in the midst of planning my own zine/artist book/comic and independent publishing fair! I'll keep you posted as soon as I confirm the date!! YAY!! Can't wait!!
Here's the May Dime Zine Cover with Howlin' Wolf. This months issue has a special feature on The Hot Sprockets to celebrate their album release and each member of the band made contributions to the issue. Other highlights are 'How to Waltz', amazing drawings, articles by new writers, a lithograph print, a collage, loads of poetry, photography, crossword and all the info on gigs worth checking out for the month of May! As always you can get Dime Zine at DimeStore in Sweeneys every Thursday or at Saucy Sundays in the Grand Social on Sundays and submissions go to dimezine@gmail.com
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