Shrub

Shrub is a store specialising in independent artist products.

Located in a gritty former locksmith store at Goldenmile Tower, Shrub presents a melting pot of curated zines, prints, tees, and various odds and ends.

Concurrently, the space is used as a base for people to come together, create, explore, discuss, and collaborate. Here, there are no stringent academic or experiential expectations. In true D.I.Y spirit, the people at Shrub believe that being self-taught and learning from our peers is an invaluable and sacred gift.

Aaron Grech, The Mind's Mirror, Shrub, 2024 © Aaron Grech

The Mind's Mirror

"When I made the drawings for this book I was thinking a lot about projecting my influences and emotions directly onto the page in the same way that people can project their emotions onto others, often subconsciously.

A lot of the shapes and forms come from things that I saw on the day I was drawing, like a floor plan I saw roughly drawn on a piece of wood on a construction site for example.

It’s a mix of extremely vapid abstract visual ideas and dense stories that will never be fully explained, like a deep conversation with a stranger."

ISBN 978-981-94-0485-8

255mm x 195mm

36pp

4C Digital Print

Perfect bound

By Aaron Grech

Printed in Singapore

Published by Shrub

Aaron Grech is an artist from Naarm/melbourne.

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Shrub & Tropical Futures Institute, GMT Zine, Shrub, 2024 © Shrub & Tropical Futures Institute

Shrub & Tropical Futures Institute have teamed up to showcase archival graphics of Golden Mile Tower.

Golden Mile Tower is an old mall in Singapore, home to Shrub.

As these charming buildings are quickly demolished to make way for skyscrapers, this project aims to document and preserve the distinctive character of Golden Mile Tower.

52pp

135mm x 177mm

Risograph printed on Recypal Printed and Published by Shrub

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297mm x 420mm

2 colour risograph print

Printed by Haptic Editions

Published by Shrub

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