https://ranchpressing.net ranch pressing Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:57:57 +0000 https://ranchpressing.net en https://ranchpressing.net/Header-Mobile Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:48:24 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/Header-Mobile Information PDF Index︎︎︎ Ranch Pressing https://ranchpressing.net/Information Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:48:24 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/Information Ranch Pressing is an independent small press operating on unceded Wadawurrung Country. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of the Lands and acknowledge First Nations artists as the first artists, makers and carers of the Skies, Waters and Lands on which we live and work. We publish limited edition art, design, poetry and critical theory books on found and recycled stock on our second-hand printers. We design, commission, hand collate and bind with sustainability in mind. Contact us if you have a project in mind and follow us @ranchpressing or email us at ranchpressing@gmail.com Ranch Pressing is Sarah Jones, Colin Maier + Joan Maier <img width="3307" height="2480" width_o="3307" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ed6521b7cb1763b50fd5ae0ff155d17ed26155d9a69069904217b6084b2d095/studio.jpg" data-mid="218424079" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ed6521b7cb1763b50fd5ae0ff155d17ed26155d9a69069904217b6084b2d095/studio.jpg" /> <img width="2160" height="2160" width_o="2160" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fec016a51e7e825f906359877703bcae782385ac9a6b3e1ea5f7f454bdd3bd37/MABF26-1080X1080.png" data-mid="247374190" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fec016a51e7e825f906359877703bcae782385ac9a6b3e1ea5f7f454bdd3bd37/MABF26-1080X1080.png" /> <img width="557" height="364" width_o="557" height_o="364" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c96ebddc7107f0f7e1674230b5bb165778263bf95b9f62ef1527fc7c2b517fdc/-8489642945192491033.jpg" data-mid="240488557" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/557/i/c96ebddc7107f0f7e1674230b5bb165778263bf95b9f62ef1527fc7c2b517fdc/-8489642945192491033.jpg" /> <img width="3415" height="5120" width_o="3415" height_o="5120" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d898ad3823028fef2d1b69a1ba1519e7a4c9ff1b15331379e2754f08e677eea0/IMG-20240901-WA0017.jpg" data-mid="217377644" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d898ad3823028fef2d1b69a1ba1519e7a4c9ff1b15331379e2754f08e677eea0/IMG-20240901-WA0017.jpg" /> <img width="892" height="670" width_o="892" height_o="670" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7df89426c5f7592a1cfa0f6be62fad5d07b7051adeeb35fe41592df76cf13c68/RANCH_PRESSING_LOGO.jpg" data-mid="242409375" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/892/i/7df89426c5f7592a1cfa0f6be62fad5d07b7051adeeb35fe41592df76cf13c68/RANCH_PRESSING_LOGO.jpg" /> https://ranchpressing.net/untitled-fiona-lee Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:48:24 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/untitled-fiona-lee <img width="4896" height="2803" width_o="4896" height_o="2803" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/35bbad653f861dd9a6d6e6455cbe47112aef64c4eae6656b02e0dea60c4dd1a8/fiona_webbanner.jpg" data-mid="213847869" border="0" alt="Fiona Lee Fountain, Djilang/Geelong 2021. Photo: courtesy the artist. Edited for risograph by Ranch Pressing 2024" data-caption="Fiona Lee Fountain, Djilang/Geelong 2021. Photo: courtesy the artist. Edited for risograph by Ranch Pressing 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/35bbad653f861dd9a6d6e6455cbe47112aef64c4eae6656b02e0dea60c4dd1a8/fiona_webbanner.jpg" /> <img width="1736" height="1210" width_o="1736" height_o="1210" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2c488c15cc2480297eec6925a5e4816670e42670c9e54bac256393c2e889225/Fiona_1.jpg" data-mid="213700313" border="0" alt="Fiona Lee concrete houses 2023. Photo: Sarah Walker, 2023. Edited for risograph by Ranch Pressing 2024" data-caption="Fiona Lee concrete houses 2023. Photo: Sarah Walker, 2023. Edited for risograph by Ranch Pressing 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2c488c15cc2480297eec6925a5e4816670e42670c9e54bac256393c2e889225/Fiona_1.jpg" />Untitled ︎︎︎ with Fiona Lee, Sarah Walker, Luke Adams + Jose Rodriguez Ed. Sarah JonesRisograph publication + block by Ranch Pressing and Fiona Lee 127 pages + concrete block 19 x 17.5 cm Edition of 30 October 2024 ISBN 978-1-7636302-0-8 Untitled is a limited edition artist book/object on the work of Dr. Fiona Lee. With contributions by artists Sarah Walker, Luke Adams, architect Jose Rodriguez, and editor Sarah Jones, Untitled is part sculpture/part book and is Ranch Pressing's debut artist publication. AU$130+postage. Please contact us to order. Fiona Lee’s work examines structure—materially and methodologically. She has interrogated the walls, the floors, the boards and the audiences of public art institutions, universities, artist-run-spaces, and commercial galleries. She has deconstructed façades, sliced cladding, interviewed the staff and built alternative institutions to those that have risen and fallen around her. Organisational and social hierarchies are plastic in Lee’s hands. Her archive consists of relationships and conversations, and she has a love-hate relationship with concrete.Lee’s installations, inquiries and invitations are designed around the rearranging of concrete materials—the building, its users, its time and place—each new form is the result of a series of interjections, conversations and deviations. Lee is an architect of invitation. Her wall’s surface ripples with a collection/idea —remembered, documented, partially obscured and possible. It holds four of us here, in conversation, in the shade. <img width="842" height="562" width_o="842" height_o="562" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c46f0d83bb44cf5d664e2a3b96a48ca48b5e9cf5d19e11f9e6e770023d73651/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image3ColinMaier_2024-1.jpg" data-mid="220947861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/0c46f0d83bb44cf5d664e2a3b96a48ca48b5e9cf5d19e11f9e6e770023d73651/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image3ColinMaier_2024-1.jpg" /><img width="842" height="562" width_o="842" height_o="562" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c70e0b0764c67c7abec26771e2f8de3042b3bcba65647bc1e88c9f8f5771b81/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image6ColinMaier_2024.jpg" data-mid="220947858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/2c70e0b0764c67c7abec26771e2f8de3042b3bcba65647bc1e88c9f8f5771b81/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image6ColinMaier_2024.jpg" /><img width="842" height="561" width_o="842" height_o="561" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6312e31811784b92f8475378f70f952c0373b624538bdecb6eb22e935a4fca1a/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image2ColinMaier_2024.jpg" data-mid="220947855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/6312e31811784b92f8475378f70f952c0373b624538bdecb6eb22e935a4fca1a/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image2ColinMaier_2024.jpg" /><img width="842" height="562" width_o="842" height_o="562" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd0000ff03e20b06ecd06a42d013f8e62b6f9414c34bea6eb1e26b96fdf2d51f/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image7ColinMaier_2024.jpg" data-mid="220947857" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/fd0000ff03e20b06ecd06a42d013f8e62b6f9414c34bea6eb1e26b96fdf2d51f/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image7ColinMaier_2024.jpg" /><img width="842" height="561" width_o="842" height_o="561" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bce9d4ef0c14ed3aa413802446bb961ad3e856de49fa125f4822767811e247d2/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image5ColinMaier_2024-1.jpg" data-mid="220947859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/bce9d4ef0c14ed3aa413802446bb961ad3e856de49fa125f4822767811e247d2/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image5ColinMaier_2024-1.jpg" /><img width="842" height="562" width_o="842" height_o="562" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0360e117375bdac527995fa004092b534fc49152ac2d0ef8bbe69642d11061b/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image4ColinMaier_2024.jpg" data-mid="220947860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/842/i/f0360e117375bdac527995fa004092b534fc49152ac2d0ef8bbe69642d11061b/UntitledWEB_RanchPressing_image4ColinMaier_2024.jpg" /><img width="2805" height="1084" width_o="2805" height_o="1084" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87e19b8285c5c41032203fb0c7ff078655db2ab3a91ec346bca60a2313a21318/ranch_header.jpg" data-mid="213847234" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87e19b8285c5c41032203fb0c7ff078655db2ab3a91ec346bca60a2313a21318/ranch_header.jpg" /> https://ranchpressing.net/HDJ001 Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:00:26 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/HDJ001 <img width="5000" height="3705" width_o="5000" height_o="3705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f070440dc74f39d81ce2e2e32ad342cd9e45cd07748a6ea5b31a180225496cef/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-3.png" data-mid="234945346" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f070440dc74f39d81ce2e2e32ad342cd9e45cd07748a6ea5b31a180225496cef/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-3.png" /> <img width="5000" height="3735" width_o="5000" height_o="3735" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cae42b8f7a619c7d02260059b1f669fce19dd0e10f2db419fe5ba810c866a430/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-4.png" data-mid="234945343" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cae42b8f7a619c7d02260059b1f669fce19dd0e10f2db419fe5ba810c866a430/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-4.png" />Hidden Door Journal 001 ︎︎︎ with Wen-Juenn Lee, Lewis Gittus, Corinna Berndt &amp; Rebecca Bracewell, Sarah Walker, Katie Paine &amp; Oliver Hull, Nathan Gray, Sarah Jones + Mike Greaney Eds. Lewis Gittus, Sarah Walker + Sarah JonesRisograph publication by Ranch Pressing in collaboration with Hidden Door Records 75 pages 19.7 x 14 cm Edition of 40 June 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7640847-9-6 SOUNDS FROM THE OUTSIDE is the inaugral issue of a series of experimental sound journals designed and printed by Ranch Pressing and published in collaboration with Hidden Door Records. “Sound bleeds from the depths of ancient wells, from the pages of books, and from the body’s interior; inviting us into the shadows, towards the very entrails of being where we might dig amongst what history has endeavoured to keep hidden. From its dominion of the non-visible, sound speaks of impossible worlds.” — HDJ. AU$+postage. Please contact us to order or visit https://www.hiddendoorrecords.com/ <img width="5000" height="3216" width_o="5000" height_o="3216" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1901172784656db2fad371f229fc60d34de5b956bfea99caa66421a89a4f2282/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-1.png" data-mid="234945347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1901172784656db2fad371f229fc60d34de5b956bfea99caa66421a89a4f2282/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-1.png" /><img width="5000" height="3711" width_o="5000" height_o="3711" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d52ddf718b183da416fd79869b4ca5c28e0278867621b69ce7cc18c25a184579/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-5.png" data-mid="234945344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d52ddf718b183da416fd79869b4ca5c28e0278867621b69ce7cc18c25a184579/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-5.png" /><img width="5000" height="3705" width_o="5000" height_o="3705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e903c352c32b5b4d09c633cefd00caccf34946943f2fb896b15b775eedb95b5e/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-2.png" data-mid="234945342" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e903c352c32b5b4d09c633cefd00caccf34946943f2fb896b15b775eedb95b5e/HDJ.001---Sounds-from-the-Outside-2.png" /> Images: Lewis Gittus, 2025 https://ranchpressing.net/GDW-broadsheet Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:44:05 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/GDW-broadsheet <img width="850" height="578" width_o="850" height_o="578" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c74b12ab106072ba8d7a3fc18dc981f3a73727253d723f814cea0e2f2d7235b/GDW_2024_A1FRONT.jpg" data-mid="225064553" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/2c74b12ab106072ba8d7a3fc18dc981f3a73727253d723f814cea0e2f2d7235b/GDW_2024_A1FRONT.jpg" /> <img width="1772" height="1181" width_o="1772" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/feaad2cc842d9f478559196bdcfc6ed743bc1abf9387930bbf6eefffee6d9031/GDW_2024_A1BACK-4.jpg" data-mid="225064552" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/feaad2cc842d9f478559196bdcfc6ed743bc1abf9387930bbf6eefffee6d9031/GDW_2024_A1BACK-4.jpg" /> Geelong Design Week 2024 Broadsheet ︎︎︎ ‘Who Cares?’&nbsp;‘Who Cares’ considers Djilang/Geelong’s UNESCO Creative Cities designation in light of iLiana Fokianaki’s (Bureau of Care,&nbsp;2020-ongoing) call for the re-recognition of care as a collective imperative for Djilang/Geelong Design week 2024. A1 double sided poster + essay by Ranch Pressing printed in Djilang/Geelong by Geelong Reprographics.&nbsp; 594 x 891 mm Edition of 100 (Sold out) November 2024&nbsp; The Foreword to the United Nations’ The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023 is a sobering read. The report reveals: “Progress on more than 50 per cent of targets of the SDGs is weak and insufficient; on 30 per cent, it has stalled or gone into reverse.”i The COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza and the ongoing conflict in Sudan have forcibly displaced 110 million people, and an end to world hunger and poverty is nowhere in sight. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and global solidarity continues to weaken. The Report does not mince words and, while it insists that “governments remain united behind the 2030 Agenda,” it states that above all else we need peace. As audiences, organisers and designers, global events loom large in the periphery of our thoughts as we recognise our ecological, social and economic connections to events that can seem so geographically removed from our working lives. As we grapple with our own opinions, experiences and personal responsibilities in our daily practices, we do not forget that, by design, we are all global citizens. Necessarily, it is the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that directly informs Djilang/Geelong’s sustainability goals at a local council level and Geelong Design Week 2024’s guest curator Tonya Meyrick is “adopting ‘design for humanity’ as the overarching premise” for the event.ii For those unfamiliar with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there are 17 of them and they were developed 9 years ago as a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.”iii The goals are the heart of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and are used by international, federal, state and local governing bodies, NGOs, and sustainably minded corporations to set their own local agendas for sustainable development. The SDGs are foundational to the UNESCO Creative Cities Network of which Djilang/Geelong, since 2017, has been a City of Design. Having been part of the application committee for the UNESCO bid in 2017 and having been President of the International Council of Design 5 years prior, Dr Russell Kennedy reiterates that our design designation is a continuing commitment to recognise our strengths, hold ourselves to account, champion, invest and lead in the field. Thank you to Dowel Jones’s Dale Hardiman; The Wool Museum’s Josephine Rout; Geelong Gallery’s Lisa Sullivan; Circle of Thread’s Emily Rastas, Kate Sylvester and Lazarus Gordon; Julie Pham, Platform Arts’s Ilana Russell; Kiri Tawhai; Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation; and Ranch Pressing’s Colin Maier. Poster Image: 100% wool Tartan blanket made in Geelong by Dowel Jones. Photographed by Colin Maier 2024. © Ranch Pressing and the artists, 2024. This project is supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.Djilang/Geelong’s successful 2017 UNESCO Creative Cities bid relied on thousands of generations of Wadawurrung design knowledge, and on “a modern industrial history of making textiles, chemicals and automotive and machinery components.”ivToday, Goal 11: “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable” is the City of Greater Geelong’s priority and the focus of Geelong Design Week 2024. Looking towards 2030 with the responsibility of our designation, our contribution to a global future remains ours as a city to shape. As I sit in the studio of my newly formed sustainable micro-press Ranch Pressing, I wonder, what does it look like to be one practitioner, in one city in the Southern Hemisphere, working towards a set of global goals? How can Geelong Design Week project the reverberations of creative action at the local scale to make meaning on the world stage? Who sees, who hears, and most importantly, who cares?... Notes i United Nations (2023) The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023. https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/ accessed 1.11.2024 ii Geelong Design Week website: https://www.geelongdesignweek.com.au/about accessed 14.11.2024 iii United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development (2015) Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda accessed 1.11.2024 iv UNESCO Creative Cities Network website:https://www.unesco.org/en/creative-cities/geelong accessed 1.11.2024 https://ranchpressing.net/ColinMaier-DavidSedgwick Fri, 01 Nov 2024 05:48:33 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/ColinMaier-DavidSedgwick <img width="2268" height="1513" width_o="2268" height_o="1513" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a29a8719ad7e1baf36293a8e7629930988b10c1acb054a50c5bf3783936bb42/Pristine_Hallways_banner_RP_web.jpg" data-mid="221057684" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6a29a8719ad7e1baf36293a8e7629930988b10c1acb054a50c5bf3783936bb42/Pristine_Hallways_banner_RP_web.jpg" /> Launched&nbsp;at Same Page bookfair Melbourne 19-20 October 2024 Pristine Hallways ︎︎︎&nbsp;Colin Maier + David Sedgwick Risograph publication by Ranch Pressing 10 pages27 x 19 cm First edition of 20October 2024 ISBN 978-1-7636302-1-5Pristine Hallways is a limited edition photozine by photographer Colin Maier with an essay contribution by artist and writer David Sedgwick AU$15+postage. Please contact us to order On my stroll down Lenina Avenue, my thoughts float to Proteus resting in his labyrinthian crypt. I take in the blue skies and bird song. Young people strolling and talking together. I look up to see the sun’s orb; it becomes the corium lava drifting from its brobdingnagian keep, seeping down once pristine hallways, now burnt and gray from graphite and bitumen. I see the mosaic tiles of the buildings and the stoic faces of statues pointing to the distance, telling me where the future was. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - David Sedgwick 2024 <img width="896" height="896" width_o="896" height_o="896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/36cd2c1ffd09cf549f6ad7c1e77cf7a90dc908bcb1c35d039f5036fc8fb7e648/Pristine_Hallways_4_RP_web.jpg" data-mid="221057650" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/896/i/36cd2c1ffd09cf549f6ad7c1e77cf7a90dc908bcb1c35d039f5036fc8fb7e648/Pristine_Hallways_4_RP_web.jpg" /><img width="750" height="750" width_o="750" height_o="750" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f19b2380151775e829c6141b13d3b181a356d75ca119c1a7404a7318f91b8c0/Pristine_Hallways_3_RP_web.jpg" data-mid="221057649" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/750/i/5f19b2380151775e829c6141b13d3b181a356d75ca119c1a7404a7318f91b8c0/Pristine_Hallways_3_RP_web.jpg" /><img width="500" height="500" width_o="500" height_o="500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8db81f35116b1c2befb11789a0865d25759adf539a7ffa6d209d22269804fdc3/Pristine_Hallways_RP_2024_web.jpg" data-mid="221057651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/500/i/8db81f35116b1c2befb11789a0865d25759adf539a7ffa6d209d22269804fdc3/Pristine_Hallways_RP_2024_web.jpg" /> https://ranchpressing.net/faggot-is-a-unit Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:48:25 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/faggot-is-a-unit <img width="3326" height="1681" width_o="3326" height_o="1681" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6166b3911eaaa5ee0fd947380984e74f03a24e363f06d90e570ca62f45f7c3ba/PXL_20240407_0557408752.jpg" data-mid="213847307" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6166b3911eaaa5ee0fd947380984e74f03a24e363f06d90e570ca62f45f7c3ba/PXL_20240407_0557408752.jpg" /> <img width="3658" height="3941" width_o="3658" height_o="3941" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0a7012cf3e93acc674905a5cc182b47facc649a8dc336ccc06016b3874b89e14/1090840.jpg" data-mid="213847600" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0a7012cf3e93acc674905a5cc182b47facc649a8dc336ccc06016b3874b89e14/1090840.jpg" />A Faggot is A Unit︎︎︎ Padraig Robinson A Faggot is a Unit Padraig Robinson Binder clip-bound Risograph publication printed by Ranch Pressing (AU) for Have A Nice Day Press (IT/US) 168 pages 28 x 21cms Exhibition edition of 50 May 2024 AU$20 + postage. Please contact us to order. <img width="2805" height="3024" width_o="2805" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28b8d602de50abecf78e8e688eea2ee677eb14b56eb4198ed8b14f47c24a65f0/image.jpg" data-mid="213847883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28b8d602de50abecf78e8e688eea2ee677eb14b56eb4198ed8b14f47c24a65f0/image.jpg" /> A Faggot is a Unit is a bound bundle of three distinct yet interconnected works by Padraig Robinson including a retrograde monthly calendar selected from seven years of material from Robinson’s archive. The book is published by Have A Nice Day Press (IT/US) which develops and publishes books, editions and ephemera by artists whose work is informed by Internet culture. This edition of 50 books was printed by Ranch Pressing to accompany the artist’s solo exhibition at Platform Arts. “A Faggot is a Unit (Hommage to Hanne Darboven) is made up of working notes for two books and a feature film. Each selected page is a substrate for a retrograde monthly calendar, acknowledging an approach that has kept my mind busy through many lives. Not so much looking back, but shimmering ass-forward into the future like a wired up, slightly drunk version of Walter Benjamin’s Angel of History, yet the detritus piling up behind her is digital, annoyingly digital, where identity is the only infinite resource we may have left.” Padraig Robinson in conversation with curator Sarah Jones. https://ranchpressing.net/Collective-Mothering Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:57:57 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/Collective-Mothering <img width="1358" height="1018" width_o="1358" height_o="1018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/516f71d6334a6bc57688feed785b3e21357dc3031370fdbd1f31e4369e1685b5/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.47.23-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/516f71d6334a6bc57688feed785b3e21357dc3031370fdbd1f31e4369e1685b5/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.47.23-AM.jpeg" /> <img width="1591" height="1063" width_o="1591" height_o="1063" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/504c0312866ad2a9ff4cc0994fe68952592c9f6252f29461435e85397d2e7b6e/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.49.31-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/504c0312866ad2a9ff4cc0994fe68952592c9f6252f29461435e85397d2e7b6e/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.49.31-AM.jpeg" />Collective Mothering&nbsp;︎︎︎ Amber Smith (Ed.) with Amelia Wallin, Sarah Jones, Briony Galligan + Abbra Kotlarczyk, Emma Michaelis, Hayley Millar Baker, Lillian O’Neil, Pauline Rotsaert and Penne Thornton Collective MotheringEd. Amber Smith with Amelia Wallin, Sarah Jones, Briony Galligan + Abbra Kotlarczyk, Emma Michaelis, Hayley Millar Baker, Lillian O’Neil, Pauline Rotsaert and Penne Thornton Saddle stitched, risograph publication printed + bound by Ranch Pressing (AU) with original hand drawn covers by Otto Opus Don-Smith. 53 pages 21 x 14cms Edition of 40 ISBN 978-1-7636302-2-2 October 2025 AU$45 + postage. Please contact Rach Pressing or Platform Arts to order your editioned copy. <img width="1337" height="894" width_o="1337" height_o="894" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48d7aa641571ed263bfd9adb465580d7d6b069a25626e2f8aeb7625439ff8d56/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.56.13-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48d7aa641571ed263bfd9adb465580d7d6b069a25626e2f8aeb7625439ff8d56/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.56.13-AM.jpeg" /><img width="1432" height="957" width_o="1432" height_o="957" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40ee41ed2db5913a3811652991e86c9e62f61a519441c29b80633b8b2ee4f86c/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.53.42-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873118" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40ee41ed2db5913a3811652991e86c9e62f61a519441c29b80633b8b2ee4f86c/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.53.42-AM.jpeg" /><img width="1591" height="1063" width_o="1591" height_o="1063" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/504c0312866ad2a9ff4cc0994fe68952592c9f6252f29461435e85397d2e7b6e/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.49.31-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873115" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/504c0312866ad2a9ff4cc0994fe68952592c9f6252f29461435e85397d2e7b6e/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.49.31-AM.jpeg" /><img width="1364" height="911" width_o="1364" height_o="911" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/abb9a6af08631285ae8e4f05612dbc545d4d1bbbdcd1c1e1137704f6e4198c06/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.54.59-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873113" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/abb9a6af08631285ae8e4f05612dbc545d4d1bbbdcd1c1e1137704f6e4198c06/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.54.59-AM.jpeg" /><img width="1386" height="926" width_o="1386" height_o="926" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdc63a898724567343ee27647238e0bc50e9ec8879c1cfa90e16b73e0f000f99/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.51.42-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873117" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdc63a898724567343ee27647238e0bc50e9ec8879c1cfa90e16b73e0f000f99/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.51.42-AM.jpeg" /><img width="1420" height="949" width_o="1420" height_o="949" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf1f8dfc5aa5c0b12f61f1a6dee3b0c42d2ac0b676caf7862977a364462344d4/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.54.24-AM.jpeg" data-mid="246873112" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf1f8dfc5aa5c0b12f61f1a6dee3b0c42d2ac0b676caf7862977a364462344d4/WhatsApp-Image-2026-03-29-at-11.54.24-AM.jpeg" /> In a time marked by ecological crisis, climate change, global conflict, and the instability of late-stage capitalism, matrilineal and maternal models of care offer vital, alternative ways of imagining continuity, resilience, and collective well-being. They provide a blueprint for rethinking relationships—not only between people, but also with the environment and future generations. They also propose systems and ways of being that sit outside of capitalist, consumerist, and Western models of thinking. Collective Mothering discusses these ideas, proposing potential models for connecting communities by creating sites for dialogue, companionship, sharing, and ultimately collective care... ...Artists remind us that the maternal is not only domestic — it is political, aesthetic, embodied, and insurgent. As Audre Lorde writes, ‘Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.’ [6] This kind of care work, especially for those who mother in isolation or at the margins, is an act of resistance. To mother is to be in a state of becoming — constantly. This collection embraces that flux.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Amber Smith, 2025. [6] Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light: Essays (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988), epilogue. https://ranchpressing.net/from Sun, 30 Jun 2024 03:25:52 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/from <img width="4756" height="3672" width_o="4756" height_o="3672" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/172070214c2047a57eabc70851a6310ccbd3459a218e0d533a0ad5005127d109/from_web_3.jpg" data-mid="213876203" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/172070214c2047a57eabc70851a6310ccbd3459a218e0d533a0ad5005127d109/from_web_3.jpg" /> <img width="850" height="1238" width_o="850" height_o="1238" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fd74a70463800a40e110379ed72d969934040f24861cc500b0b772dbe04294b/from_web.png" data-mid="213876202" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/5fd74a70463800a40e110379ed72d969934040f24861cc500b0b772dbe04294b/from_web.png" /> From:&nbsp;︎︎︎ Sarah Jones From:&nbsp; Sarah Jones Hand-bound Risograph publication 30 pages 17 x 11.5 cm Second edition of 50, hand numbered From: (2014) documents a series of texts distributed by email. An experiment in distribution, dedication and the companionship of poetry this decade later reprint features a new selection of texts, building on the sold out first edition. August 2024 <img width="2805" height="3024" width_o="2805" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28b8d602de50abecf78e8e688eea2ee677eb14b56eb4198ed8b14f47c24a65f0/image.jpg" data-mid="213848010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28b8d602de50abecf78e8e688eea2ee677eb14b56eb4198ed8b14f47c24a65f0/image.jpg" /> The domed roof bursts, from the top of the silver spire, into a flowering white plume. The children’s naked bodies shimmer with tears as they run fearlessly through the ornate archways that curve upwards from the holes in the ground. Strings of droplets like chandeliers line their blue-skied hallways. Their joy screams from them as they zig-zag the slippery, square-cut, grey carpets of their water palace. Everything inside of their castle, touched by their small feet, turns darker and shines in the afternoon sun. This second edition of From: is currently being issued by Ranch Pressing. https://ranchpressing.net/Index-Desktop Wed, 26 Jun 2024 07:48:25 +0000 ranch pressing https://ranchpressing.net/Index-Desktop Ranch Pressing Publication Index Collective Mothering ︎︎︎ ed. Amber SmithHidden Door Journal 001&nbsp;︎︎︎HDJ001Untitled&nbsp;︎︎︎ with Fiona Lee, Sarah Walker, Luke Adams + Jose RodriguezWho Cares? ︎︎︎ Djilang/Geelong Design Week PosterPristine Hallways&nbsp;︎︎︎ Colin Maier + David Sedgwick A Faggot is a Unit&nbsp;︎︎︎ Padraig Robinson and Have A Nice Day Press