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Shameless self promotion, my book might make a good Fathers' Day present for those who've already gifted the whole range of Happy Socks. I'll let this exquisite endorsement from one of my design heroes @whchong_bookcovers make the justification.

Order via Cordite Books, link in bio or https://corditebooks.org.au/products/father-son-and-other-animals

Shameless self promotion, my book might make a good Fathers' Day present for those who've already gifted the whole range of Happy Socks. I'll let this exquisite endorsement from one of my design heroes @whchong_bookcovers make the justification.

Order via Cordite Books, link in bio or https://corditebooks.org.au/products/father-son-and-other-animals

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Work/Play documents a decade of my collage practice, across studio experiments and commercial work. It was produced through the @blurbbooks Creator Program, and was awarded Best Designed Small-run Book at the 2026 @theabda awards.

Two years after shooting, we're excited to share 'Laurence Pike x Palm Cockatoo'. Conceived by Zoë Sadokierski for Future Fables (a @humansandnature publication) the film captures drummer @laurenzpike improvising to field recordings of Palm cockatoos – the only bird known to whittle sticks for rhythmic drumming. Biologist @cnzdenek recorded the birds in the Cape York Peninsula; @clemenshabicht edited the footage and filmed Laurence’s performance at @utsdataarena, a 360-degree stereoscopic studio. The first in a series exploring interspecies musical encounters, the project asks what it might mean to play ‘with’ an endangered species, while minimising impact on vulnerable habitats.

Link to full film in bio, and: humansandnature.org/curious-encounter-palm-cockatoo-x-laurence-pike/

Field footage © @CNZdenek. Created with support from Australia Council for the Arts, @thomasricci__ and the University of Technology Sydney Data Arena and School of Design.

It's a big weekend of activities at The Social Glue of Sydney exhibition this weekend.

Saturday May 16, 11 - 1:
Wacky Characters workshop with @bettina_kaiser_art and @6t.scissors
$15, $10. 6 places left

Sunday May 17, 2 - 2.30
Anarchival collage, a talk by @zoesado free

Sunday May 17, 2.45-4
Miniature concertina workshop with @zoesado and @prettyshakecollage (includes Zoe Sadokierski's talk). 1 ticket left!

Links to tickets for all events in our bio.

And of course you are welcome to visit the gallery anytime 10-4, this Saturday and Sunday, and then next Thursday-Sunday for our final week.

This is the second of our workshops for this coming weekend.

Sunday 17 we have this "Make a Miniature Concertina Book" workshop, which is prodeced by a talk on "Anarchival Collage" by our own Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado
The talk is free, the workshop, which includes the talk, is a small fee. The facilitators for the workshop are Zoe Sadokierski and Social Glue founder Kathryn Bird @prettyshakecollage

Saturday 16 we have "Collage kids - wacky characters". The facilitators are Social Glue members Bettina Kaiser @bettina_kaiser_art and Jacqui Biffin @6t.scissors

We have 2 general admission and 3 financial hardship places left for this Sunday's workshop, so be quick!

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

Introducing Social Glue artist Zoe Sadokierski @zoesado who will be featured in our upcoming exhibition at Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown.

Zoe’s practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues.

Exhibition dates: May 9–24

Opening Night: May 8, 6pm - 8pm

Join us on May 9 from 12pm for our open day and meet the artists behind Social Glue!

Find the link in our bio to get free tickets for the opening night and opening day.

#socialglueofsydney #collage #groupexhibition #chrissiecottergallery

“Now is the time to read beyond headlines, forensically check credentials of writers and sources, deliberately recalibrate our algorithms to disrupt our echo chambers, seek out trusted voices. To become part of the conversation that extends beyond repeating the – often hilariously – horrifying clickbait and conspiracy fodder meme-ing around”.

Close Reading is a dispatch of literary obsessions, published by @woolgather.co. Each edition features a guest writer who shares one word, one quote, one lyric, one book, and “one other thing”.

The fifth edition is by @zoesado, a writer, designer, and educator based in Sydney. Zoë Sadokierski is associate professor in @vc.hons @utsengage. Her practice-based research explores ways that visual communication – particularly illustrated nonfiction, data storytelling and anarchival collage – can be used to engage audiences with complex scientific and cultural issues. She is a former president and founding member of the. @theabda. In 2015 Zoë established Page Screen Books, an independent publisher of artist’s books and visual essays. Her works on paper and artist books have been exhibited and collected internationally. Her book Father, Son and Other Animals (@corditepublishing, 2024) explores climate change and species extinctions through the lenses of parenting and creative practice.

In this edition, Zoë shares words of nature, technology, creativity, literacy, and the importance in finding perspective.

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Subscribe free at closereading.co

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Illustration by @lachconn

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

Late post of @caw.syd activities — posca pen drawing on @utsengage tower with @hollyohneil and @vc.hons, a mini exhibition of work from staff and students in the Visualisation Institute and another wild Multispecies Salon at @knoxstreetbar — with thanks to Meagan Solomon, the great enabler, and @utsfds

🎞️ Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike, A Short Film in Which a Human Drummer Encounters a Drumming Cockatoo is the first in a series of “encounters” between musicians and animals, conceived by Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado) for the Animal Allegories project.

The series explores what it might mean to play “with” another species and how we might curate an encounter with a threatened species in a way that minimizes interference with vulnerable habitat.

🥁 To watch a video of the drummer Laurence Pike (@laurenzpike) improvising in response to field recordings of palm cockatoos, visit www.humansandnature.org/digital and click on “Digital Press” and then “Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike.” 🔗

🎤 The palm cockatoo recordings were captured by the biologist Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek) in the Cape York Peninsula, in northeastern Australia. Clemens Habicht (@clemenshabicht) edited the recordings, then filmed Laurence’s performance in a 360-degree stereoscopic display studio in Sydney.

Traces of many people, places, and technologies are entangled in this intimate encounter between man and bird.

By Zoë Sadokierski, Laurence Pike, Clemens Habicht, Christina Zdenek, and Animal Allegories

Palm cockatoo illustration by @zoesado

During @caw.syd we're hosting an evening of readings and performances that reveal how storytelling can shape our understanding of, and responses to, the biodiversity and climate crises.

​What happens when we centre voices beyond the human? When we speculate futures for worlds we are only beginning to inhabit? When we hold both ecological grief and critical hope? This event offers a space to encounter creative works that refuse easy answers—pieces that invite us to sit with uncertainty, to listen differently, and to find new ways of living on a damaged planet.

​Curated by @zoesado and @andrewxburrell, hosted by the UTS Visualisation Institute. @utsviscom @utsfds @utsalumni

https://luma.com/fa1s89rr

✍️ “Perhaps one aspect of taking seriously the lives of other animals is accepting that their creative expressions exist entirely outside our cultural frameworks, that their intentions remain fundamentally opaque to us. This opacity need not be a problem to be solved. What happens when we embrace radical incomprehension as a starting point, accepting that the bird’s drumming and vocalizations exist in a universe of meaning entirely separate from our own, and that its beauty lies precisely in that separation? Yet we must also accept that all lives are entangled. As van Dooren and colleagues write: ‘All living beings emerge from and make their lives within multispecies communities.’ How to resist the urge to explain the birds in human terms while also pointing to that entanglement, and to the disturbance that human activity has on the lives of other species, even in the unseen depths of a forest in far northern Queensland?”

— Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado), Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek), Rob Heinsohn, and Animal Allegories

🔗 Tap the link in our bio for Humans & Nature Press Digital or visit www.humansandnature.org/digital to read “Exercises in Minor Ornithology: Listening to What We Cannot Know.”

🎞️ This essay accompanies the short film “Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike,” also available at www.humansandnature.org/digital

Palm cockatoo photos by © Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek)

Curated by Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado) and Ceridwen Dovey of Animal Allegories, the off-kilter stories that make up the Future Fables: Lessons from Other Animals collection are intended to open up new thresholds for considering how humans relate to the more-than-human species around us. These stories emerged alongside another project Animal Allegories is developing with the @australianmuseum, titled “Survival Stories: Threatened Species and the Scientists Who Study Them.”

Image descriptions in comments.

✍️ “Perhaps one aspect of taking seriously the lives of other animals is accepting that their creative expressions exist entirely outside our cultural frameworks, that their intentions remain fundamentally opaque to us. This opacity need not be a problem to be solved. What happens when we embrace radical incomprehension as a starting point, accepting that the bird’s drumming and vocalizations exist in a universe of meaning entirely separate from our own, and that its beauty lies precisely in that separation? Yet we must also accept that all lives are entangled. As van Dooren and colleagues write: ‘All living beings emerge from and make their lives within multispecies communities.’ How to resist the urge to explain the birds in human terms while also pointing to that entanglement, and to the disturbance that human activity has on the lives of other species, even in the unseen depths of a forest in far northern Queensland?”

— Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado), Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek), Rob Heinsohn, and Animal Allegories

🔗 Tap the link in our bio for Humans & Nature Press Digital or visit www.humansandnature.org/digital to read “Exercises in Minor Ornithology: Listening to What We Cannot Know.”

🎞️ This essay accompanies the short film “Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike,” also available at www.humansandnature.org/digital

Palm cockatoo photos by © Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek)

Curated by Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado) and Ceridwen Dovey of Animal Allegories, the off-kilter stories that make up the Future Fables: Lessons from Other Animals collection are intended to open up new thresholds for considering how humans relate to the more-than-human species around us. These stories emerged alongside another project Animal Allegories is developing with the @australianmuseum, titled “Survival Stories: Threatened Species and the Scientists Who Study Them.”

Image descriptions in comments.

✍️ “Perhaps one aspect of taking seriously the lives of other animals is accepting that their creative expressions exist entirely outside our cultural frameworks, that their intentions remain fundamentally opaque to us. This opacity need not be a problem to be solved. What happens when we embrace radical incomprehension as a starting point, accepting that the bird’s drumming and vocalizations exist in a universe of meaning entirely separate from our own, and that its beauty lies precisely in that separation? Yet we must also accept that all lives are entangled. . . .

In the palm cockatoo recording, we left in the soundscape captured in Christina’s field recordings; insects hum, trees murmur in the wind, human field recordists shuffle, and at one point, Christina whispers notes to herself. This choice to not ‘clean up’ the audio, to deliberately leave traces of the way human, bird, and habitat are inextricably entangled in the field encounters, is important to the storytelling.”

— Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado), Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek), Rob Heinsohn, and Animal Allegories

🔗 Tap the link in our bio for Humans & Nature Press Digital or visit www.humansandnature.org/digital to read “Exercises in Minor Ornithology: Listening to What We Cannot Know.”

🎞️ This essay accompanies the short film “Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike,” also available at www.humansandnature.org/digital

📷 Palm cockatoo photos by © Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek)

Curated by Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado) and Ceridwen Dovey of Animal Allegories, the off-kilter stories that make up the Future Fables: Lessons from Other Animals collection are intended to open up new thresholds for considering how humans relate to the more-than-human species around us. These stories emerged alongside another project Animal Allegories is developing with the @australianmuseum, titled “Survival Stories: Threatened Species and the Scientists Who Study Them.”

Image descriptions in comments.

✍️ “Perhaps one aspect of taking seriously the lives of other animals is accepting that their creative expressions exist entirely outside our cultural frameworks, that their intentions remain fundamentally opaque to us. This opacity need not be a problem to be solved. What happens when we embrace radical incomprehension as a starting point, accepting that the bird’s drumming and vocalizations exist in a universe of meaning entirely separate from our own, and that its beauty lies precisely in that separation? Yet we must also accept that all lives are entangled. . . .

In the palm cockatoo recording, we left in the soundscape captured in Christina’s field recordings; insects hum, trees murmur in the wind, human field recordists shuffle, and at one point, Christina whispers notes to herself. This choice to not ‘clean up’ the audio, to deliberately leave traces of the way human, bird, and habitat are inextricably entangled in the field encounters, is important to the storytelling.”

— Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado), Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek), Rob Heinsohn, and Animal Allegories

🔗 Tap the link in our bio for Humans & Nature Press Digital or visit www.humansandnature.org/digital to read “Exercises in Minor Ornithology: Listening to What We Cannot Know.”

🎞️ This essay accompanies the short film “Curious Encounter: Palm Cockatoo x Laurence Pike,” also available at www.humansandnature.org/digital

📷 Palm cockatoo photos by © Christina Zdenek (@cnzdenek)

Curated by Zoë Sadokierski (@zoesado) and Ceridwen Dovey of Animal Allegories, the off-kilter stories that make up the Future Fables: Lessons from Other Animals collection are intended to open up new thresholds for considering how humans relate to the more-than-human species around us. These stories emerged alongside another project Animal Allegories is developing with the @australianmuseum, titled “Survival Stories: Threatened Species and the Scientists Who Study Them.”

Image descriptions in comments.