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

Bibliography

"2011"

• I am a Camera #15 (in Dunedin)

"2010"

• I am a Camera #14
• Kingdom by the Sea
• Fern Zine
• Still Looking for Junk with Simon Yates
• Vinnies - Blue Ribbon Edition reissue of 1999 zine.
• various issues of Disposable Camera

2009

• June graveyard (2009)
• The time you were in Paris (2009) illustrated by Leigh Rigozzi and written by Vanessa Berry.
• I am a Camera #13 (2009)
• various issues of Disposable Camera

2008

• I am a Camera #12 (2008)
• various issues of Disposable Camera.
• Germany 2008 #1-2, (2008) excerpts from Vanessa Berry's blog Posted to Germany
• Contribution to Michelle Vandermeer's Li'l Laundromatic (2008)

2007

• I am a Camera #11 (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

• Contribution to Kane Barwick's Sure #12 (200?)
• Shopping list stories (n.d.)

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

• Laughter and the Sound of Teacups #1-67, (1997-2002)

1996

• Psychobabble #1-20,(1996-1998)

External Links

• Vanessa Berry World
• Laura Appleyard's photos Vanessa Berry's Flickr webpage
• Biblioburbia Vanessa Berry's Sydney Libraries Project
• Vanessa's world in more than 100 zines: An interview with Vanessa Berry, Sydney, Australia, by Elke Zobl, November 2002
• Posted to Germany: Vanessa Berry's adventures in German and Germany