Rim Books

18/08/2025

Come visit us this Sunday 24th August 2025 at Studio One Toi Tū 12-5PM! We will have the full list of Rim Books and Friends new and classic photography selection!

18/08/2025

f.stop Photo Fair is back for its second edition 📸

Join us to celebrate community and all things photography.

Browse stalls from photographers and labs selling prints, zines and photography equipment; listen to inspiring talks; take part in activities hosted by local photo labs and wonder at the 'Territory' exhibition with works from photographers around the world.

🗓️ Sunday 24 August
⏰ 12pm – 5pm
📍 Studio One Toi Tū, 1 Ponsonby Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland

11/06/2025

Come see us at Object Book Fair this weekend:
13 Rose Road, Ponsonby Auckland 11am-4pm Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th. Full range of new and classic Rim Books and Friends - including XYZ book from Lisbon for post free purchases!

11/05/2025

New Rim Books at Melbourne Art Book Fair.
Place to Place - Matt Arbuckle

This monograph surveys Matt Arbuckle’s recent works made between 2019 and 2024, with particular attention to two exhibitions: Bow Echo (Two Rooms, Auckland, 2023) and Subduction and Abduction (Daine Singer, Naarm/Melbourne, 2024).

A prolific maker, Arbuckle’s practice is a process-driven exploration of place, with landscapes conceptualised through the very act of their making. Favouring process over outcome, Arbuckle employs elements of traditional Japanese shibori dyeing techniques — wrapping, twisting, folding, and draping fabric over found surfaces and structures — to create abstract compositions. The resulting paintings use depth and movement to trace and reveal abstract memories, imprinting the experience of place into the artwork.

265 x 213 mm | colour illustrations
ISBN 978-1-99-116528-2
Publication: May 2025

11/05/2025

New Rim Books at Melbourne Art Book Fair.
'Subject Failure' - Shaun Waugh.
Shaun is a New Zealand-based artist who lives and works in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work centres on the material culture of photographic history, critically examining the complex relationship between images and the realities they aim to depict.

Waugh highlights how photography can deceive, reduce, and seduce, to question the authenticity of photographic representations.

Richly illustrated with over 80 images arranged to emphasise Waugh’s reflexive use of colour, Subject Failure features new essays by Emma Ng, Marcus Moore, and Matt Plummer & Alice Tappenden, who each offer insights into Waugh’s engaging conceptual practice.

325 x 240 x 14mm | colour illustrations
ISBN 978-1-99-116525-1
Publication: May 2025

25/04/2024

See you at Studio One Toi Tū tomorrow - to see and buys the range of Rim Books !

05/09/2023

Te Uru opening 4-6pm Saturday 9th September. There is nowhere to go, there is nothing to do, by Greta Anderson. Advance copies of her new Rim Books is available to view - put in an order at the gallery shop! 😄

05/09/2023

Come see this amazing show - and the advance copies of Greta's book!

There Is Nowhere to Go, There Is Nothing to Do brings together a focused selection of photographs by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Greta Anderson, produced between 1997 and 2022. The exhibition anticipates the launch of a new monographic publication of the same title, designed by exhibition curato...

07/05/2023

We are pleased to be distributing this Bouncy Castle and Semiotext(e) co-publication of art writings by our old friend, late Giovanni Intra.

Clinic of Phantasms: Writings 1994-2002
by Giovanni Intra
Edited by Robert Leonard
Foreword by Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell Introduction by Andrew Berardini

https://www.rimbooks.com/wordpress/clinic-of-phantasms-writings-1994-2002

09/12/2022

Book launch:
Thursday 15 December 5-7 pm, Two Rooms Gallery,
16 Puketi Street, Tāmaki Makaurau.

Two Rooms and Rim Books are pleased to launch a special artist edition of Joyce Campbell's LA Botanical.
The first edition was published in 2007 to accompany the exhibition LA Botanical at G727, a Los Angeles gallery dedicated to generating dialogue via artistic representations and interpretations of the urban landscape.

This 2022 second-edition reissue by Rim Books, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Two Rooms features two extra plates. It is reproduced in duotone with a foreword by Dr Sue Ballard and a new cover hand-printed on a vintage Asbern cylinder letterpress by the artist in twenty distinct botanical iterations in numbered editions.
Please join us on Thursday 15 December 5-7 pm

With thanks to the team at Two Rooms.

Joyce Campbell, LA Botanical on show at Two Rooms 23 December 2022
https://tworooms.co.nz/exhibitions/l-a-botanical/

28/11/2022

Joyce Campbell
LA Botanical
25 November - 23 December 2022
Two Rooms

We are delighted to receive a few advance bound copies of LA Botanical, to accompany Joyce Campbell's in credible show just opened at the Two Rooms gallery.

The first-edition was published in 2007, to accompany the exhibition LA Botanical at G727 – a Los Angeles gallery dedicated to generating dialogue via artistic representations and interpretations of the urban landscape.

This 2022 second-edition reissue by Rim Books, featuring two extra plates, is now reproduced in duotone with a foreword by Dr. Susan Ballard, and new covers, hand-printed on a vintage Asbern letter-press by the artist in twenty distinct botanical iterations.

Stay tuned on this page for mid-December launch at Two Rooms, when the rest of the bound copies are available!

05/10/2022

Our local and extended community love this building. We respect its past & the aspirations of mana whenua and their right of first refusal. The Unitec/Carrington site is about to become an urban development of up to 3500 homes. We support affordable, well designed housing, open spaces and amenit...