Vanessa Berry

Vanessa Berry reading her zine I am a Camera. Photograph by Joanne Saad

Vanessa Berry is a prolific Sydney, NSW, Australia based artist and zinester, who has published notable one-off and seminal ongoing Australian zines, including Psychobabble (1996-1998), Laughter and the Sound of Teacups (1997-2002) and I am a Camera (1999-).

In 2007 a book of Vanessa's autobiographical stories was published by Local Consumption Publications. Named Strawberry Hills Forever as a tribute to her post office box, the book includes stories taken in part from her zines I am a Camera and Laughter and the Sound of Teacups.

Berry's zine works to March 2009, ~120 zines, was exhibited as part of the exhibition Avoiding myth and message: Australian artists and the Literary world, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 7 April - 12 July 2009.

Contact

P.O. Box 1879

Strawberry Hills

NSW 2012

AUSTRALIA

Email: vanessaberryworld@gmail.com

2008

2007

Disposable camera (2007?-)
The rabbit and the bear (October 2007), by Miss Helen and Vanessa Berry
Contribution to Nanoworks (October 2007), published by Voiceworks for the 2007 TINA Festival
Strawberry Hills Forever (Erskineville, N.S.W. : Local Consumption Publications, 2007) a book of autobiographical stories taken in part from her zines, also contains drawings by Keg de Souza.

2006

News of the Vanessa Berry (2006?-)
Contribution to Post no bills (2006-), a mail art/zine project by Papercut Collective
Contribution to Anna Poletti's ‘A People’s History of Australian Zines’, HEAT 11: Sheltered Lives (2006)

2001

Adjective stories (Strawberry Hills, NSW: the author, 2001) with illustrations by Janet Walker.
Dictionary stories (Strawberry Hills, N.S.W.: The Author, 2001) 'Contains one dictionary definition entry for each letter of the alphabet and an accompanying one page story incorporating the word.'
'A little bit nice', in Esther's The original Yonah Schimmel zine review #1 (2001)
Contribution to Paul Byron's Ventricle (2001)

2000

1999

I am a Camera (1999-)
By the (jetty/velodrome) I sat down and wept (1999) a split zine with Tim Wright
'$3.95', in Milk bar, No. 2, November 1999 (North Fitzroy, Vic.: [s.n.], 1998-)
A little but nice (n.d.) a cookbook
Suggestions for a better name would be welcomed (n.d.) small A5 cut and paste zine (referenced in The new pollution, page 77)
Vinnies (March 1999)
Things cut out of other things (n.d.)

1997

1996