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Nuna Gallery Press

The Nuna Gallery runs a small publishing arm focused on books that are experimental, non-mainstream or special interest. Nuna provides a platform for artist/writers who reimagine content in ways that disrupt or circumvent standard book formats. We cater to niche art markets and to writers who explore obscure crannies in the creative ecosystem.

21st Century humans inhabit an era of specialisation. In contrast the 16th Century painter Giorgio Vasari was also an architect, art historian and biographer. Da Vinci was a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. The 12th Century Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen was a writer, composer, philosopher and scientist. This tendency for exceptional individuals to cross disciplines has always been rare, but the compartmentalising of creativity into stand-alone disciplines is a modern maxim.

Prior to Gutenberg and the scaling of printing presses, books were personal—hand written, hand copied, annotated, hand illustrated and illuminated. They were held by their creators as precious artefacts, each copy an individual art work. This has been lost in the era of mass production. Today's book production follows rigid formulas of genre, style and market placement. The value of the press in its ability to copy and distribute literature has become tied to the value of a market that commodifies literature as simplified story telling. Gone is the bestiary stalking the book's margins.

The aim of Nuna Gallery Press is to create books that recapture (to some small degree) the sense of wonder that accompanies books as crafted objects.

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