READING ROOM

Our Reading Room is open during gallery opening hours and everyone is welcome. We have a range of zine titles and also art publications from around the world for your reading pleasure! The Reading Room provides a quiet escape from the bustle on the University of Sydney campus, where students and visitors can relax in the peaceful Verge Gallery space.

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ZINES IN STOCK:

+ ADAM LEVIN – “The instructions”
+ SAFDAR AHMED – Alam al-Mithal, the imaginal world, The Good Son and MUSLIM ZOMBIES
+ ALEXANDER MCKENZIE – “Acarsaid, Guida del giardine”
+ ANDREW KENNEDY & HUTCHISON BYOD – “Early morning at the station”
+ ANNE HARRIS – Lovingly Interrupted
+ A SILENT ARMY PRINT CONCERN – “Where do I belong”
+ 55 The Bag. The Biennale arte guide
+ BASTIAN FOX PHELAN – “Ten Trans Tanka” and “How to be alone”
+ BEEF KNUCKLES – Issue 2, Issue 5
+ BEN RAK – “Pictures of Scratches”
+ BEN, JENIFER, KATRIN, LIZ ET EL. – “The leftovers”
+ BETWEEN HERE AND THERE – “Home”
+ BREWSTER – Brewster Issue 1: The Finest Walk in the World, Brewster Issue 2: Under the Branches of the Blossoming Cherry, Brewster Issue 3: My First Summer in the Sierra
+ BRYCE PEMBERTON – Crystals, Hull, Boors
+ CHRIS MCCORMACK- “Voce de Testa”
+ Harsh Realm Issue 1, Harsh Realm Issue 2
+ HUBERT – “Catfish #1,2,3 & 4”
+ DEXTER FLETCHER – Huffin’ Texas
+ ERIN COATES – “Arête”
+ GEMMA WESTON – “Anyday now”
+ GEORGE PATON GALLERY – “Unmade, Photostas”
+ GILES IVAN & STEVE TOM – “Babara International”
+ GILLIAN KAYROOZ – “Scan, Signal, the Parts”
+ ANIMAL BRO– Goat Boy, Le Psycho Cat (in bundles of 5)
+ INTERLUDE ZINES –
MEILISSA HAMLYN- “In Defense of Imagination – In response to Julien Bowman”
HARRIET MACINERNEY – “La Jocosidad Open Invite” in response to Laura Meza Orozco
EMILY CROCKER – “Google Recursive” in response to Chris Sutevski
SERAFINA LEE – in response to Kaspar Kagi
KATHLEEN LINN – in response to Honey Long
MOLLY MORPHEW – in response to “Dead Man Guess” by Bryden Williams
MO JOHNSON – In response to “Hard but Soft” by Avery Wheless
ELYSE GOLDFINCH – in response to Kai Wasikowski
KATE O’BOYLE – “Worth / Less – David Birks and the power of place”
+ JACK LEVITT – Complex Zine Issue 1, Complex Zine Issue 2
+ JUTCHY YAYA  – One Day the Wind Blows Hard and Cold, What a Fool Believes, From 9 to 5 I have to spend my time at work, my job is very boring, I am an office clerk
+ KARYS MCEWEN – You Can’t Sell Art Wearing Jellies, Small Town Gal, Love and Other Indoor Sports #3, Love and Other Indoor Sports #4
+ *KARYS RHIANN MCEWEN – Letter
+ Lee Tran Lam – Speak-easy #10: The City of Sydney Mapped Out,  Speak-easy #11: The French Issue,Speak-easy #12: The Food Issue, Speak-easy #13: The Japan Issue
+ LINDA LEW – Moments in Japan, I asked my mother what I will be, A time of procrastination
+ LIZZIE NAGY – “Places for busy people”
+ L.P EAREL – “Jungle Geronimo”
+ *LUKEUTIM SOWAZA – “Look out fot the Ocean”
+ MAGGIE LEMERE & ZOE WEST – “Ma Su Mon”
+ MANDY BEAUMONT – “Boundary Poems, All That Glitters, Drinking makes your heart ache more…, Many a Broken Hearted Woman, Blood Haiku, Aperture”
+ MARIA ZARRO – “Astro Babble”
+ MARY VAN REYK – “My Dog Rusty”
+ MARY VAN REYK – “My Turkey Baster Family”
+ MARY VAN REYK – “Helen We Could Live Here” (further south edition)
+ MARY VAN REYK – “Helen We Could Live Here” (8/20)
+ MARY VAN REYK – “Houses In Linden That I Broke Into As A Kid”
+ MAT ADAMS – “Indie Kids” 1, 2 & 3, “Topless”
+ MATT EMERY – “Adversaries”
+ MATT HUYNH – “CAB, Chinatown, MA”
+ MEGAN ALICE CLUNE – “World’s Only #3”
+ MEG O’SHEA – “The Wolves of King St, Beer & Longing, All Day”
+ MICHAEL CHABON – “Fountain City”
+ MICHELLE CAWTHORN & PETER SHARP – “This is not a solo show”
+ Moffitt.Moffitt – “Realisations of Grandeur”
+ NAKAKO HAYASHI – “Here and There: vol. 9 Her Life”
+ NICK SELEMITSCH – “Play”
+ NEIL FRASER – “Melt”
+ THE NEW POST DOLLS – “Underworld milk”
+ NOISE – “How comics can change the world”
+ ONOMATOPEE – “Global villaging”
+ THE REFUGEE ART PROJECT – “Refugee Art Project Zine, Refugee Art Project Zine #4, Refugee Art Project Zine #5, Refugee Art Project Zine #8”
+ SAFARI LEE – “BOX (Babes on X-Terms)”
+ SOFIE DIEU – “On The Great Alpine Road”
+ SOPHIA CARA FRYDMAN – “Don’t get distracted”
+ SUBURBOPHOBIA – Issue #10, Issue #11, Scenes from Suburbophobia
+ THOMAS MAILAENDER – “Cyanotypes”
+ TIM HEIDELKER & GREGG TURKINGTON – “Bicycle built for two”
+ Timothy McSweeney’s – Issue 36
+ UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY – “Fugitive forms and grand designs”
+ UNKNOWN AUTHOR – “I had another baby on the floor”
+ UNKNOWN AUTHOR – “Did Helen’s high school break her heart”
+ UNKNOWN AUTHOR – “Thomas the human photocopier”
+ UNKNOWN AUTHOR – “Fierlo, BMI”
+ UNKNOWN AUTHOR – “Plastic knife #1, 12”
+ UNKNOWN AUTHOR – “Fulsome prism #6”
+ VANESSA BERRY – “Band T-Shirt, Fern Zine”
+ White Fungus – Issue 10
+ WAJAHAT ALI – “The domestic crusaders”
+ YOU – “Assorted zines”
+ You are here – “Chippendale Local Brew”

CATALOGUES IN STOCK:
+ Adelaide Festival – Paul Grabowsky, 2012
+ Against a degree of blind-ness – Isobel Parker Phillip (Curator)
+ Articulate – Art Gallery of South Australia, Nick Mitzenich(Director), 2012
+ Artists’ Books – George Paton Gallery, Tim Guest (curator), July 1983
+ A New Feminine? – AirSpace projects,  Rafaela Pandolfini (curator); April 2015; edition of 250
+ *Assemble papers: The culture of living closer together, Issue 3, 4, 2015
+ *Alam al- Mithal: The imaginal world – Safdar Ahmed
+ All our relations – 18 Biennale of Sydney, 2012
+ Atelier paris: The power studio – University Art Gallery, The university of Sydney, Ann Stephen (Curator), 2013
+ 2011 Campbelltown Arts Centre – Lindy Deitz
+ Artafrique, Collection de la Foundation, 2009
+ Bailed Up: Bushrangers at Darlinghurst Gaol, Deborah Beck (Historian), National Art School, 2014
+ Bold New Voices in Contemporary Art, National Art School, Underbelly Arts Festival, 2017
+ Chromatic Visions – Sydney College of the Arts, Matthys Gerber (curator); September 2008; 978-0-9751151-8-3
+ Curating Feminism – Sydney College of Arts, The university of Sydney, 2014
+ Diaspora Pavillion Catalouge, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017
+ Documenta 14: Daybook, Prestel, 2017
+ Doing Dancing, Rhiannon Newton, Firstdraft, 2017
+ Doing Time, Tehching Hsieh, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017
+ Ferns and Palms – Pomona Couege Museum of Art, Sam Falls, 2014
+ Fortune – George paton Gallery/ The Institute of Modern art, 1987
+ Freedom Riders: Art and activism 1960s to now – University Art Gallery, + The university of Sydney, Matt Poll & Katie Yuill (Curator), 2011
+ Girls at the tin sheds: Sydney Feminist posters 1975-90 – University Art Gallery, The university of Sydney, Katie Yuill (Curator), 2015
+ Here and There Volume 9: Her life – Nakako Hayashi, 2009
Honours – UTS Photography & Situated Media, Natalya Hughes (Editor), 2015
+ How to Live Together: Production Notes, Koki Tanaka, Skulptur Projekte Munster, 2017
+ Into the light – The university of Sydney, 2010
J.W. Power: Abstraction – Création paris 1934 – University Art Gallery, The university of Sydney, 2012
+ John Fries Award – UNSW Galleries, 2017
+ Landseasky, MAAP (Media Art Asia Pacific), 2014
+ Louise Zhang’s New Year Rot – Luke Letourneau (Curator)
+ Mirror Mirror Then and Now – Institute of Modern Arts, Ann Stephen (Curator), 2010
+ Monsters. A photographic journal of America– Kate Disher-Quill, 2015
+ Music for the Gift, James Richard, Cymru Yn Fenis Wales in Venice, 2017
+ My Horizon, Tracey Moffat, 57th Vennice Biennale, 2017
+ Narelle Jubelin: Vision in Motion – University Art Gallery, The university of Sydney, Luke Parker & Ann Stephen (Curator)
+ Next Wave Magazine – Emily Sexton (Director), 2012
+ Objectifying Elsewhere – Luke Letourneau (Curator)
+ Opium: A Portrait of The Heavenly Demon – Babara Hodgson, 1999
+ The Paper Mill Residency Program 2011 – Four X Four
+ Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian Prints – A manly Art Galery & Museum and Cleada Press Touring exhibition
+ Photomedia: SCA Degree Show 2017, Sydney College of the Arts, 2017
+ Prima Materia, Punta Della Dogana, Caroline Bourgeois and Michael Govan (Curators), 2014
+ Reasons to be cheerful documents #1 – George Paton Gallery, Juliana Engberg (Director)
+ Reprsentative Aesthetics: Rosângela Rennó & Fiona Pardington – University Art Gallery, The university of Sydney, Susan Best (Curator), 2015
+ Realisation of Grandeur – Moffitt. Moffitt. & Stephen Wad project, 2006-2009
+ Robert Campbell JNR: History Painter – National Library of Australian Catalogning-in-publication, Djion Mundine OAM (Curators), 2015
+ Samuel Hodge – Sometimes I just need quiet
+ Seen | Unseen – Michael Kempson (Artist)
+ Second Circulation: An exhibition of zine making artists and art making zinesters, Verge Gallery, Dexter Flexter (Curator), 2015
+ Seoul – Sydney: Contemporary Korean and Australian Prints – UNSW Gallery, Jeong Heonjo, Jung Unchul, Michael Kempson (Curator), 20154-2015
+ Sigma Polke: Music from an unknown source – Exhibition by the Institute
+ Slideshow, UTS Gallery, Isobel Parker Philip (Curator), 2014
+ Skulptur Projekte Munster 2017
+ 4 Solos – Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Carrie Kibbler (Curator), 2015
+ Sookmyung and Sydney Exhibition – International Exhibition exchange project
+ Soft Topologies, Kate Scardifield, UTS Gallery, 2018
+ Soundtracks, Dylan Martorell, Asialink, 2011
+ South – David Corbet (Curator)
+ The Stain – Verge Gallery,  Leah McPherson (curator), June 2011, 978-1-921558-82-5
+ Strangers: a retrospective of Joan Brassil (Campbelltown Art Centre)
+ Studio Venezia, Xavier Veilhan, 57th Venice Biennale, 2017
+ Sundown/Outa Place, Sydney Guild (Amelia Wallin, Christopher Hodge, Hossein Ghaemi), 2011
+ System of Objects, Jaime Tsai (Curator), National Art School, 2017
+ The Aalto Natives, Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, 2017
+ The Economy is Spinning – Kris Dittel (Editor), 2016
+ The list – Campbelltown Arts Centre, Megan Monte (Curator), 2014
+ The moral meaning of wildness: Juan Davila – The Australian National University, Drill Hall Gallery, 2010
+ The University of Sydney Exhibition: Pictures from the collections – Pamela Bell, 18 May – 12 June, 1988
+ Tracing Echoes-Nicky Bird, 2001
+ Turtle dove – Nicholas Kleindienst (Curator)
+ TV Moore: Welcome to rumjungle – Campbelttown Arts Centre, Michael Dagostino (Director)
+ Twenty/20 – Tania Creighton (Curator)
+ Txt – Catalogue for Slide to Unlock – Melissa Canbaz (Curator)
+ Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker, Australian Centre for Photography, Cherie McNair (Director), 2017
+ Untitled (the edifice. restored. veers/exalts but was not total) – Del Lumanta (Artist)
+ Vibration, Vibraçào, Vibración: Latin American Kinetics Art at the 1960s and 70s – University Art Gallery, Susan Best (Curator), 2012
+ We Are Here, Firstdraft and NAVA (National Association of Visual Arts),  Georigie Meagher and Brianna Munting (Co-conveners)
+ Woman in power – University Art Gallery, The university of Sydney, Ann Stephen (Curator), 2015
+ YaJi – Jiang Su Province Socialism college, HePing Zhou (Director), 2016
+ Zhong Guo Mei Shu Jia Da Xi: LiMing Xu – WenHua Wang (Director)
+ Zones of Contact – 15th The Biennale of Sydney, 2006

SERIAL PUBLICATIONS IN STOCK:
+ Accidental Discharge issue 1 2016.
+ Afterall issue No. 35 Spring 2014, No. 36 Summer 2014
+ Art Almanac issues 2013-2018
+ Art and Australia volumes 44 No. 1 Spring 2004, No. 2 Summer 2006, No. 3 Autumn 2007; 46 No. 2 Summer 2008, No. 4 2009; 47 No.1 2009, No.2 2009, No. 3 Autumn 2010, No. 4 Winter 2010; 48 No.1 2010, No. 2 Summer 2010; 49 No. 2 Summer 2011
+ Artand issues No. 51.1 2013, 51.4 2014
+ Art Guide Australia issues No. 65-68 2010, No. 71 2011
+ Artasiapacific issues No.77-96, 2012-2015, issue 107-108, 2018; Artasiapacific Almanac volumes No. 6-10, 2011-2016,
+ Artist Profile Issue No.15
+ Artlink volume 13 No. 2 1993; volume 14 No. 3 1994; volume 15 No. 4 1995; volume 17, No 1 1997; volume 22 No. 1 2002; volume 28 No. 2 2008; volume 29 No. 1, No. 2, No. 4 2009; volume 30 No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 2010; volume 31 No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 2011; volume 32 No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 2012; volume 33 No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 2013; volume 34 No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 2014; volume 35 No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 2015. 
+ Art Collector issues No. 67 Jan-Mar 2014; No. 68 Apr-Jun 2014; No. 73 Jul-Sep 2015
+ Art Monthly issues No. 246-257, 268, 270, 273, 275-283, 2012-2015
+ Artforum International issues Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
+ Art World Issue No.4 2008, Issue No.9 2009
+ COLORS, issue No.58, 2003
+ Contemporary Visual Art + Culture Broadsheet volumes No. 41.4, 42.3, 43.4 2014; 44.1, 44.3 2015
+ Das Superpaper issues No. 29 December 2013, No. 32 August 2014, No. 33 November 2014
+ Discipline issues No.1 Winter 2011, No.2 Autumn 2012, No.3 Winter 2013
+ Frieze issues No. 143, 2011
+ Happen Stance Volume 1 Issue No.120 2009
+ Heavy Volume 1 2015, Volume 2 2016
+ Interlude Annual Almanac, 2015-2017
+ Juxtapoz issue No. 129, 2011
+ Manuscript issue No. 9 and 11, 2013-2014
+ Mousse Magazine issue No. 38-39, 2013
+ MUSE issues No. 2 July 2012, No. 4 March 2013, No. 5 June 2013, No. 7 March 2014, No. 8 June 2014, No. 12 October 2015, No. 13 February 2016, No. 14 June 2016, No. 19 March 2018, past issues online
+ Photofile volume 94 Autumn/Winter 2014, volume 95 Spring/Summer 2014-15, volume 96 Autumn/Winter 2015, volume 97 Spring/Summer 2015-16
+ Portrait, Issue Autumn 2018
+ Runway issues No. 2 October 2003, No. 3 March 2004, No. 4 October 2004, No. 6 October 2005, No. 7 April 2006, No. 8 October 2006, No. 9 June 2007, No. 10 Autumn 2008, No. 11 Winter 2008, No. 12 Summer 2008-9, No. 13 Autumn 2009, No. 14 Winter 2009, No. 15 Summer 2009-10, No. 17 Summer 2010-11, No. 18 Autumn 2011, No. 19 Winter 2011, No. 20 Spring 2011, No. 21 Autumn 2012, No. 22 Spring 2012    
+ San Rocco issues No. 5 Autumn 2012, No. 6 Spring 2013, No. 7 Summer 2013, No. 8 Winter 2013, No. 9 Spring 2014
+ Sturgeon issue No.1, 2013, issues No. 2-4, 2014-5
+ un. Magazine issues No. 4.2-9.1, 11.2, 2010-2018
+ OBERON issue 1, September 2015
+ Odds and Ends Issue No.3 Winter 2008
+ Vault issues No.1-9, 2012-2015

GRAPHIC NOVELS IN STOCK:
+ Adrian Tomine – Shortcomings

ARTIST’S & SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS IN STOCK :
+ Erik Kessels – In Almost Every Picture
+ Jason Phu – Little fish and some crabs
+ Luke You – You (Paperback)
+ Vanessa Berry – Strawberry Hills Forever

ANTHOLOGIES IN STOCK:
+ Album – Eline Mugaas and Elise Storsveen

ONE OFF TEXT IN STOCK:
+ A World History of Art, Sixth Edition – Hugh Honour & John Fleming, 2002, published by Laurence King Publishing Ltd. London.
+ Album – Primary Information, 2014
+ Brought to light II: Contemporary Australian Art 1966-2006 – Lynne Seear & Julie Euington (Editor), 2007
+ Current: Contemporary Art From Australia and New Zealand – Arts and Australia (Editor), 2008
+ Dictionary of Fashion And Fashion Designers – Georgina O’Hara Callan, 1986
+ Drawn Volume 1 – Apsules #For creatures by creative
+ The Fifties in Vogue – Octopus Books (Publisher), 1987
+ Folding Techniques For Designers From Sheet To Form – Paul Jackson, 2011
+ One hundred and sixty five degrees – The university of Melbourne, 2016
+ Pure and Dirty – Claire Raynold’s & Chrissie Hall, 2011
+ The 20th century art book – Phaidon Press, 1996
+ When you think about art: The Ewing & George Paton Galleries 1971-2008 – Helen Vivian (Editor)
+ Women Artists: An Illustrated History(4th edition) – Nancy G. Heller (Editor), 2003