Bryce Galloway

Bryce Galloway

Senior Lecturer, BFA Kaiārahi, BFA Programme Leader

Bryce Galloway is an expert on zine-making in Aotearoa since punk rock. That is the subject of the oral history he is currently authoring/editing for Massey University Press (released May 2026).

Galloway’s own zine - Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People - has been quarterly fixture since 2002, and is Aotearoa’s longest running zine. Galloway’s zine features doodly drawings and personal essays with a penchant for the personal/political, the awkward and embarrassing.

Galloway started Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest in 2014, a festival he still leads. He’s also a member of the Wellington Zinefest committee.

Alongside Galloway’s work producing, championing and facilitating zine-making and zine networks, he performs in the musical duo Wendyhouse (est. 1992). Wendyhouse perform their own brand of lo-fi inverted pop music.

 

LINKS

Listen to Wendyhouse on Bandcamp

RNZ - The Countdown Begins

RNZ Feature - "Bryce Galloway's musical midlife crisis"

  • Expertise

    Zines and fanzines in Aotearoa and beyond, punk rock, figurative and vernacular drawing, lo fi media, comic absurdity   

  • Research Highlights

    Currently working on Aotearoa’s first history of zines/fanzines with Massey University Press. Zines NZ (punk to present) is due for release in May 2026

     

    Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People (zine) released quarterly since 2002

     

    Instigator and organiser of the annual Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest in collaboration with Hamilton City Libraries and a committee of local volunteers.

     

    Intermittent committee member of Wellington Zinefest since 2009

     

    Essay On Tristan Tzara and Steve Bannon for Suter Gallery catalogue to the show Kiss Me Hardy! (but not like that), reworked for Counterfutures – Left Thought Aotearoa (journal) and the Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference 2023

     

    Kiss Me Hardy! (but not like that) at The Suter Gallery (Nov 2021-Feb 22): Artist talk, collage/zine workshop, catalogue essay, collaborative sound sculpture – A Late of Zanies - with Richard Reddaway, and single-channel video work Untitled (2021 Google search ‘how to pronounce oeuvre’)

     

    Co-organiser of the Australasian Humour Studies Network Conference 2021 under the leadership of Dr. Nick Holm. Curation of attendant group show the stories of five to ten people (comedy in art) at The Engine Room gallery, Pukeahu campus, Massey University

     

    Video Dirty Dirt commissioned for Toi Poneke’s CubaDupa offering. Later screened by Circuit curator Mark Williams in The Sound of Seeing at The Pyramid Club, Te Whanganui-a-Tara/Wellington.

     

    Wendyhouse EP CD/zines Puddlekopf (2024), Born To Be Alive and Killed By Death (2020), Veggieklöpse (2016), The Idiot Birds (2014) and Garage Strand (2010)

     

    four songs played twice solo exhibition and opening/closing performances at Toi Pōneke (2019). Based on a 2016/17 ‘midlife crisis’ project of forming a new band every month for twelve months.

  • Qualifications
    • MFA (University of Auckland)
    • BFA (University of Auckland)

  • Professional affiliations or service roles

    Ōtepoti Zinefest, Ōtautahi Zinefest, Wellington Zinefest Inc. Soc., Palmy Zinefest, Whanganui Zinefest, Kirikiriroa Hamilton Zinefest, Tauranga Zinefest, Auckland Zinefest, Sticky Institute (Melbourne), Te Matatiki Toi Ora/Christchurch Arts Centre, The Australasian Humour Studies Network, The Suter Gallery (Nelson), Circuit - Artist Moving Image Aotearoa, Massey University Press, Urban Dream Brokerage/Letting Space, Counterfutures - Left thought & practice Aotearoa (Victoria University)