GLORIA Books

29/10/2024

Editing and sequencing Joyriders, we love the puzzle of bookmaking. How to tell story, shape a narrative, take someone on a journey. All part of the process!

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27/10/2024

All preorders of ’s Joyriders will receive GLORIA’s limited edition ‘Books Make Friends’ iron-patch, while stocks last. Join the club!

We offer free delivery around Aotearoa New Zealand. For UK and EU orders note that prices are in New Zealand dollars. Payment is processed via PayPal and therefore can be made in any currency. To see UK/EU shipping options, you must enter your address at checkout. All UK/EU Joyriders orders will be sent from the UK.

If ordering from outside NZ, AU, UK or EU and you’re not seeing a shipping option, let us know. Send us a DM here on Instagram or use our contact form on our website and we’ll figure something out for you.

25/10/2024

Some of the offset sheets, pre trim and bind, on the most deliciously creamy Munken Pure paper stock.

Joyriders by is available for preorder now. Limited edition GLORIA patch with every preorder, while stocks last.

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24/10/2024

📕 NEW FROM GLORIA 📕

Preorders are now open for ’s new photobook, Joyriders.

The series is a culmination of Connew’s four year investigation of the women motorcycle riders of . Within what is commonly recognised as a traditionally male sport, these women have unapologetically carved out a space to call their own, defiantly declaring “we ride too”.

Preorder now for an early-bird price and receive a limited edition iron-on patch, until stocks last.

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17/10/2021

A brief update to announce that GLORIA’s northern chapter has officially relocated to Bristol, UK! If you’re round these parts, do get in touch. We’re keen to talk photobooks, fairs and bookstores!

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02/04/2021

Katie Kerr recently had a yarn with Chloe, Sam and Chris about small press publishing in Aotearoa. Read the conversation over at The Pantograph Punch.

A roundtable discussion on small press publishing in Aotearoa.

20/03/2021

"We believe that the work of our friends and extended communities is important. We hope our small publishing practice can be a way to connect and share diverse perspectives. We’re still in love with the form of the photobook as a speculative space; a way to sweep up the reader into a story, emotion or concept with the simple ingredients of paper, ink and glue."

Harry Culy of Bad New Books wraps up the final chapter of Dwelling in the Margins with his contribution, 'Good News, Bad News'.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

18/03/2021

"A press is an infrastructure for communication, located at a discursive site of power. It enables voice for certain registers and articulations of being-in-the-world. But a press that participates within the present conditions and configurations of coloniality reproduces communicative inequalities. It’s a system that creates the voiceless margins—those who speak unceasingly but are not heard. How can a future press create a testimonial setting for the margins, thereby inaugurating new forms of life and living?"

Balamohan and Erena Shingade make 'Notes for a Future Press' (which we are very excited to see come to life!) in the second-to-last chapter of Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

18/03/2021

"The fact that such a seminal exhibition, and many others like it, can only live on in the hands of a privileged few that have the means to buy and access to such a publication is uncomfortable and unacceptable. It brings me constantly back to the question: what could it mean to publish the arts for a broader public? Who is given the opportunity to access the arts, and why?"

Sophie Rzpecky wonders how we can circulate the work of artists back into the localities in which they practice in 'Publishing as Public Space?' from Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

15/03/2021

"With Bruce’s 'Body of Work' (2015), a book that required tritone printing, we first sought out ‘mainstream’ photobook publishers in the imperial suburbs of Europe and America. All were less than charmed—truth be told, they were horrified, which we took as a badge of honour. One Italian publisher wrote back quickly to say, ‘Your book is too strong for _________ , we cannot do it’. Half of the publishers failed to respond."

The book-by-book story of Vapour Momenta Books — an ongoing collaboration between designer Catherine Griffiths and photographer Bruce Connew — plays out in 'Paper Vehicles' from our new book, Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

13/03/2021

"Dwelling in the margin has its advantages, as the current pandemic responses around the world seem to be indicating. Our globalised version of ‘road trips’ in jet engines have come to an abrupt end—at least for the immediately foreseeable future. We’re encouraged to view our own country, preferably once again using a motorcar, in our own bubble. Looking at the rich pickings from the new generation of independent photographers who are intent on making their own road-trips in the twenty-first century, it seems hopeful that this genre will continue to redefine our sense of place, one which is in constant flux."

Haruhiko Sameshima maps the history of road-trip photobooks in Aotearoa in 'Road Trips on the Margin: New Zealand Photography from the Road, c. 1979' — and introduces RIM's forthcoming book of the work of Paul C. Gilbert.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

12/03/2021

"The current publishing landscape in Aotearoa is strong—however, printing and postage costs can be high. Access to unique papers and specialty printing methods is limited. Posting a copy of your latest photobook to your favourite curator in France will set you back $50.00, more than the recommended retail price (RRP) of the actual book. There goes the saying in publishing, ‘there is no money in books’—but that hasn’t really ever stopped anyone before."

Despite all the challenges of publishing on an island in the South Pacific, Anita Tótha of Remote Photobooks finds depth and diversity in New Zealand photobooks in 'Publishing in the Landscape'.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

10/03/2021

"Ultimately we all should be recognised for the diverse range of roles we both do and can play. We should accept, and be accepting of, the fact that we all need to be both supporters and supported, regardless of gender. This is doubly so amongst women—yet sadly we can be each other’s worst enemy. I think we have all experienced this, but I practise a radical hope in a future where we can all acknowledge the strength in collectivity, and where we incorporate more equality into our daily lives. None of us are in this alone."

An enlightening conversation between two brilliant wahine — and you can now read the full chapter of 'Amidst and Beyond' by Alice Connew and Virginia Woods-Jack over at the Contemporary HUM website! https://www.contemporaryhum.com/alice-connew-virginia-woods-jack

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

A conversation between photographers Alice Connew & Virginia Woods-Jack, about their artistic and publishing practices, which features as a chapter in the new book 'Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa', published in February 2021 by GLORIA Books.

08/03/2021

"Although there have been many attempts to create visibility and opportunities for female*, people of colour and LGBTQIA+ individuals and communities in some creative institutions, we were alarmed at the fall-off rate of these artists post-art school. We noted that up to 80% of art students in tertiary education are female*, whilst this statistic is not reflected in representations in dealer galleries and exhibition programmes. Femisphere asks what happens to these graduates, and it posits a query:

If the number of male students is significantly lower in art schools,
why are males still receiving the
most opportunities?"

With IWD yesterday, it seems timely to showcase this contribution by Judy Darragh and Imogen Taylor of Femisphere. Their text 'Femisphere: Gender as Past, Present and Future' tells the story of a serial zine project that aims to advance inclusivity and bolster the visibility of women*’s practices in the visual arts sector.

* Inclusive to all variations of gender that identify with the term or label of ‘woman’, whether in the past, present or potential future.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

07/03/2021

"You can behave like an anti-capitalist online, but it’s hard to be truly anti-commercial paying yearly fees for a .com and hosting for your e-journal that will evaporate in a mist of broken URLs when you decide to call it a day. Better off taking up space, be it under bookshelf dust, in op-shop bargain bins or even gutters. The only rent for printed matter in meatspace is general entropy and decay, and thanks to the same laws of thermodynamics there is nothing that can ‘unprint’ a book or take it offline."

Chris Holdaway of Compound Press argues that 'The Future is Material', even if your chapbook ends up in the rubbish skip, in his contribution to Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

05/03/2021

"‘Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?’ exclaims the narrator in the opening to Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Bliss’ (1918), the basis for this ‘reading’ (from what looks like a photocopied then scanned excerpt from a collected works, found online). I liked this line as a place to begin, thinking about a book or text as a kind of body."

Sophie Davis and Ella Sutherland draw lines between Katherine Mansfield, the act of publishing and the body — in all it's forms — in 'Bliss', their poetic contribution to Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

04/03/2021

"As much as publishing, and by extension working in and for a community, requires hard skills, it’s many of these less tangible qualities, like reflexivity, responsiveness and engagement, that continue to shape how and why we practice."

Matt Galloway and Chloe Geoghegan trace their respective practices back to publishing in 'Chasing Papers: The Agency of Publishing as a Reflexive Mode of Practicing' in DITM.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

02/03/2021

"I was shocked by my own lack of interest in what was on offer at the fair. An apparently endless sea of people just like us—culturally astute graphic designers avoiding commercial work by desperately throwing all their available resources into making books (hard currency in the art world) for their ‘emerging artist’ friends. The effect, for me, was of drowning in a deluge of paper and ink that all looked, felt and read the same—a tidal wave of both aesthetic and editorial conformity and upper-middle-class conservatism."

Luke Wood has such a terrible time at the Melbourne Art Book Fair that he gives up making books — or does he? 'Books, Records, Books, Etc.' from Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

01/03/2021

"To think of intimacy, though, is also to consider what the position of the curator or editor is and should be. Does foregrounding the role of care and responsibility in those relationships deny the curator’s or editor’s capacity to create or alter meaning in a practitioner’s work? What kind of alterations are appropriate or necessary? On what terms do they take place?"

Simon Gennard asks some tricky questions in his conversation with Lizzie Boon, 'Publishing in Relation in Naarm and Aotearoa', #6 in DITM.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

27/02/2021

"Our goal in creating a journal that focused on Māori art was simple: that Māori art, in all its broad and deep definitions, is written about. Another of our simple aims was for this writing to be constructed from whatever position the writer felt most comfortable, whether that be as an art historian, a curator, a museum concept developer, an historian or any of the many hats that Māori wear with aplomb. Further to this, the articles for the journal would be generated in a way that is Māori—that is, via wānanga with one another. As these composite aims were slowly but surely brought together, these simple acts revealed themselves as deceptively difficult. But with each step towards the first volume of ATE Journal of Māori Art, we trod a path of persistence against a New Zealand art canon that has also built and reified itself."

Bridget Reweti and Matariki Williams of ATE Journal take a fresh approach to publishing an academic journal in 'Kaupapa Toi: Making a Journal of Māori Art', the fifth contribution to DITM.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

26/02/2021

"New Zealand in the 1970s was very different to now, but perhaps there were already hints then of what has become commonplace nowadays: where the motivation for design-related publications or ventures (like conferences, exhibitions, awards, educational events) is almost always simply to make money, rather than to give voice or support to participants. Practitioners are often engaged just to provide fodder for content. So, the answer to the question who is speaking is ‘the owners’, and to whom is it speaking is simply ‘whoever will pay’."

Graphic designer Jonty Valentine critiques a mostly forgotten but important-in-its-day publication in 'Designscape: A Monthly from the New Zealand Industrial Design Council', the fourth chapter of Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

24/02/2021

Read an extract from Dwelling in the Margins — Dom and Sam's very honest attempt at naming their publishing company — over at The Spinoff!

The following is a real Facebook Messenger conversation between Samuel Walsh and Dominic Hoey, founders and publishers of Dead Bird Books. Books editor Catherine Woulfe writes: This convo is extracted with permission from the eclectic, fascinating new book Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing

24/02/2021

"Art publishing is certainly not a capitalist venture, and therefore those in this field don’t have to subscribe to myths of progress and infinite growth. Things don’t have to get bigger to get better, things do not even have to get better. We don’t always have to strive to be more—doing what you like to do is not unambitious."

The good word from Gabi Lardies in 'Embracing Freaky Futures', the third chapter of Dwelling in the Margins.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

21/02/2021

"Your book arrived this morning and, I must confess, was met with serious consternation. Is it possible that an assistant included the wrong book? I seriously ask that since it bears almost no relationship with what I have indicated that is needed for this publication."

Sarah Maxey, self-proclaimed exit-level designer, gets told off by a famous artist in her contribution 'Way In, Way Out: The Unfolding of a Design Practice Told through Four Mishaps' to Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa.

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.

19/02/2021

Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa opens with correspondence collected by Louise Menzies around the publication of the children's book The Lone Goose (1979) by Joanna Margaret Paul.

"It was met with ridicule from parts of the publishing industry at the time, as documented here. This is part of the reason you are probably yet to encounter this book. There are other reasons too though, of course—aspects of bias, taste and public perception, commercial interests and the constraints of production; structural conditions that curiously and unfortunately remain consistent today."

📖 Dwelling in the Margins: Art Publishing in Aotearoa 📖 is available from our website with *free delivery* around New Zealand, or from your local independent bookstore.
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