Ruin Press, 228 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville (2026)

29/10/2024

Ruin Press is very pleased to co-present:
Antonio Sobral (Brasil)
Talk at Frontyard
Featuring a live performance by Anthony Guerra
DJ Disruptive Patterns
Saturday November 16th
Frontyard Projects
3-6pm
Drinks and refreshments avaliable
Free/ Donation entry

In this event we will be diving in the universes of Antonio Sobral and the São João Residency, founded by the artist. A mix of projections and listening sessions with some talking, navigating through avant-garde art, ecology and community making.

We will also be blessed with a live performance by Anthony Guerra, who has just released a new CD:
https://repressedrecords.com/products/anthony-guerra-cold-victory-kingdoms-iii-cd?srsltid=AfmBOopENqWCqY8zhOgRXtzT7Ddx5AmUmFZKfRDDvFMlTPKi6RH7I3AX

DJ Disruptive Patterns will provide relaxed listening.

Residência São João (RSJ) has established itself as a unique project in the realm of artist residencies, focusing on experimental practices and in cohesion with the local rural territory. The residency is situated in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at a historic and ecological coffee farm. Since its foundation in 2012, creatives and farmers were attracted to its land, where nowadays about 20 people live. Year-round, artists come from all over the world for immersions at the residency. RSJ fosters the influence of nature and agroecology in the creative processes of artists-in-residence, thus subtly infiltrating the money, power and city-centered production of contemporary culture.

www.residenciasaojoao.com

We acknowledge that frontyard is located on Aboriginal land - the Cadigal Wangal people of the Eora are the traditional custodians of the land. We pay our respects to elders past and present

Www.frontyardprojects.org

17/07/2023

Jack Lee book launch in 35mm!

22/05/2023

Some photos from Nik Kamvissis Dead at Slugs’ book launch last Saturday. It was a lovely afternoon, as is always at with incredible performances from Francis Plagne Clare Cooper and Jack Sargeant
Few remaining copies are still for sale online at www.ruinpress.com and at select bookstore retailers.

04/05/2023

Ruin Press is very pleased to announce Nik Kamvissis - Dead At Slugs’ book launch

Featuring performances by Francis Plagne, Clare Cooper and Jack Sargeant
Saturday May 20 3-6pm
Frontyard Projects
228 Illawarra Road, Marrickville

DEAD AT SLUGS' - Nik Kamvissis
with an accompanying essay by Francis Plagne
Limited to 200 copies with remaining copies for sale on the day.

“Punter’s Club, 2001: the set started when he threw himself against the wall, amplified of course. The crying began then didn’t stop. He hit the microphone repeatedly with his forrid, initiating a hypnotic rhythm with intermittent irregularities, frizzy hair jagged. The ritual had begun, everyone was in. After a sustained 10 minute crescendo, Rizili went out into the street, using the pole outside Joe’s Garage the same way as he used the microphone. The crowd followed, bystanders were agape. By the time he ran down Brunswick St, wheezing at an alarming volume, the club was going off, everyone high on possibility, amazed to be there. The set kind of ended when no one knew where Nik was.

I’m writing in Berlin, it’s raining and I was going to go to a gig tonight, but already knew what it sounded like so I didn't. The avant-garde has auto-dissolved once again, at least in this town. Gig’s like Rizili’s don’t happen here, and if they do they’re documented into a tidy art-history oblivion, contextualised into suffocation, given no room to stand free and for themselves. There’s no Berlin MS: a Menstruation Sisters gig comes off genuinely unhinged, pure animal energy distilled into sound.

These drawings capture the unnameable energy of those gigs, an astonishing nexus of detail and mess, a mutation of reference and alterity, another lineage of thought altogether. The visual articulation of the psyche, the clarity of form, its explosion into these exquisite beauties shifts our perception of what figurative drawing can be. These images could only gestate in the most disciplined and isolated of minds, living in stern denial of the comfy pull towards corporate arts hell, creating space to quietly formulate ideas that transcend any concept of relation or community.”

- Anthony Pateras, 2018.

16/07/2022

Was an absolute pleasure to launch Jack Lee’s Gone for Good today at thank you to all those that came and to .season and for their performances and of course to for these fantastic photos and support in so many ways ! There are copies still for sale via ruinpress.com

14/07/2022

This Saturday!
Jack Lee - Gone for Good Book Launch
Presented by Ruin Press

Saturday 16th July 2022
Frontyard Projects
Illawarra Road, Marrickville
2-4pm

Reading by Jack Lee
Musical Performance by BP
Reading by E. A. Milstead

Ruin Press is very proud to announce the launch event for Jack Lee's collection of poetry, Gone for Good.

Please join us for an afternoon of readings and performances to celebrate this special event.

Frontyard is located at 228 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204.

Drinks will be available thanks to and books will be available for purchase. We will endeavor to have eftpos facilities, but cash is encouraged also.

COVID-19 - This is a COVID safe event - it will be held outdoors with weather permitting. Masks are encouraged, and social distancing will be appreciated.

This event is to be held on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, to which sovereignty has never been ceded.

Gone for Good, Jack Lee's second poetry collection, is to be published by Ruin Press at the conclusion of 2021. The book includes a critical introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter and enigmatic illustrations throughout by Dusty Anastassiou.

"Jack’s second collection takes readers on a psychogeographic journey of shifting landscape, from Sydney streets in part one titled ‘Here’ to the “foot-worn stone” of Scotland in part two ‘And There’. Its inquiries about place, history, and remnants are almost archaeological in approach: digging and sifting
through material, laying lost things out. Is anything ever gone for good? Perfectly gone, done and dusted? The past isn’t ever completely past, it lingers, stays a while, departs again, and if you look at time spatially, you can walk around in it." From the introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter

This pressing is limited to 200 copies and will be available online via mail order via www.ruinpress.com (shipping worldwide) and select bookstores throughout Australia.

Gone for Good
Jack Lee
RP008
Illustrations by Dusty Anastassiou
With an Introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter
First edition limited to 200 copies
71 pages
Perfect bound
ISBN 9780648580829
Published December 2021
Printed in Australia
$22.00 RRP

06/07/2022

Jack Lee - Gone for Good Book Launch
Presented by Ruin Press

Saturday 16th July 2022
Frontyard Projects
Illawarra Road, Marrickville
2-4pm

Reading by Jack Lee
Musical Performance by BP
Reading by E. A. Milstead

Ruin Press is very proud to announce the launch event for Jack Lee's collection of poetry, Gone for Good.

Please join us for an afternoon of readings and performances to celebrate this special event.

Frontyard is located at 228 Illawarra Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204.

Drinks will be available and books will be available for purchase. We will endeavor to have eftpos facilities, but cash is encouraged.

COVID-19: This is a COVID safe event - it will be held outdoors with weather permitting. Masks are encouraged, and social distancing will be appreciated.

This event is to be held on the lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, to which sovereignty has never been ceded.

Gone for Good, Jack Lee's second poetry collection, is to be published by Ruin Press at the conclusion of 2021. The book includes a critical introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter and enigmatic illustrations throughout by Dusty Anastassiou.

"Jack’s second collection takes readers on a psychogeographic journey of shifting landscape, from Sydney streets in part one titled ‘Here’ to the “foot-worn stone” of Scotland in part two ‘And There’. Its inquiries about place, history, and remnants are almost archaeological in approach: digging and sifting
through material, laying lost things out. Is anything ever gone for good? Perfectly gone, done and dusted? The past isn’t ever completely past, it lingers, stays a while, departs again, and if you look at time spatially, you can walk around in it." From the introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter

Gone for Good
Jack Lee
RP008
Illustrations by Dusty Anastassiou
With an Introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter
First edition limited to 200 copies
71 pages
Perfect bound
ISBN 9780648580829
Published December 2021
Printed in Australia
$22.00 RRP

16/05/2022

Our latest title “Gone for Good” by Jack Lee hitting the stands at

16/03/2022

Stoked to be an online exhibitor at the art book fair on this weekend at the in addition, copies of “Gone for Good” will be available irl at the fair via the stand!

06/01/2022

Thanks !! “Had a delightful parcel awaiting my return to on Monday thanks to the always of ! Jack Lee’s illustrated collection of “Gone for Good”, by Dusty Anastassiou. Such brilliant work.... do yourself a massive favour! 👌”

13/12/2021

Ruin Press is very happy to announce Gone for Good by Jack Lee.

Jack Lee’s second poetry collection, is to be published by Ruin Press at the conclusion of 2021. The book includes a critical introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter and enigmatic illustrations throughout by Dusty Anastassiou.

"Jack’s second collection takes readers on a psychogeographic journey of shifting landscape, from Sydney streets in part one titled ‘Here’ to the “foot-worn stone” of Scotland in part two ‘And There’. Its inquiries about place, history, and remnants are almost archaeological in approach: digging and sifting
through material, laying lost things out. Is anything ever gone for good? Perfectly gone, done and dusted? The past isn’t ever completely past, it lingers, stays a while, departs again, and if you look at time spatially, you can walk around in it." From the introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter

This pressing is limited to 200 copies and will be available online via mail order via www.ruinpress.com (shipping worldwide) and select bookstores throughout Australia.

Online orders shipping NOW - with a book launch in Sydney in February 2022.

Gone for Good
Jack Lee
RP008
Illustrations by Dusty Anastassiou
With an Introduction by Ella Skilbeck-Porter
First edition limited to 200 copies
71 pages
Perfect bound
ISBN 9780648580829
Published December 2021
Printed in Australia
$22.00 RRP
$5 Shipping Australia wide

International customers please contact [email protected]

20/11/2021

Very psyched to soon announce a new print title! Covid was hard for publishing (as for all arts) but this one managed to make it thru! Details in the coming week. For now, a humble teaser 😄

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