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The challenge we set: to use what we had to make something especially for World Book Night 2024’s theme, In praise of birds.
Genesis Baroque’s 2024 season
Genesis Baroque’s 2023 season
Genesis Baroque’s 2022 production of George Frideric Handel’s Acis & Galatea
Pollinators, Remy & Pip, for the Australian Print Workshop’s 40x40 survey exhibition
Where we can encounter each other, for the 2023 RMIT Print Exchange Folio
By hoot and Glide, for Whereabouts: A Print Exchange Folio for Rona Green
What if you could grow a forest from a collection. What if you could weave a floor to ceiling landscape from E. G. Adamson’s Snow coral (1930s–1940s) and Louisa Anne Meredith’s Study for gum-flowers and ‘love’ (c. 1860). Slide Tom Roberts’s She-oak and sunlight (1889) alongside Tom Humphrey’s Summer walk (c. 1888), and glimpse Grace Cossington-Smith’s Bottlebrushes (1935) through the foliage.
Brilliant Gathering
Hold
Recall
A green pocket of restored eucalyptus forest habitat collaged with pieces from the collection of the NGV.
Including
”They look straight through your soul”: The art of raising bats
Melissa Cunningham, The Sunday Age, 2023
World Book Night 2023 — We Remember
Leadbeater’s possum commission
Poems & Romances CD for Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, 2023
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s 2021 season
Have rocket, will travel
Reel to Real
Including
Q & A for Mya Cook, 2022
To those who require foraging resources and roosting sites.
To the ingenious ecological kindness of the pollinators and seed dispersers.
The echolocators catching insects on the wing. The leaf-consuming fuel-reducers.
The intricate connection of all things.
Rakali Grotto
Roosting on a concealed tree branch
Tiny but huge
Went out for a walk
Bats aren’t scary
Something reverberated
We were commissioned to create a Memory Game for Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery comprised of artworks from our three artists’ books Because I Like You (2016), Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds (2016), and A Flight of Twelve Southern Hemisphere Birds (2013).
There were once trees growing under the roads. There are still creeks flowing beneath the directional pathways we’ve imposed.
An artists’ book to take you within the forest, created especially for Biosphere.
Including
Biosphere — a sense of belonging catalogue essays by Felicity Spear and Penelope Gebhardt, 2021–2022
Empty the room. View it from the outside in. Brick by brick. Twig by twig. At the beginning: what is there?
An artists’ book featuring variations of the original Bowerbird collages we created especially for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower.
Melbourne City of Literature Office: Hooded plover, Wildlife Postcards
Melbourne City of Literature Office: writers in residence, one-day, social media takeover
The Overwintering Project: With a slow and deliberate wing beat
Including
Q & A for Kasandra Hendy, 2022
We were commissioned to create artwork for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower, “a project inspired by bowerbirds’ obsessive collecting habits, and their ability to build magical architecture out of fragments”.
Dive into a 620cm long digital collage with an original watercolour cover, created especially for the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2021.
Pollinator outline, for the 2020 RMIT Print Exchange Portfolio
Live in-studio artist visit, in conversation with Jess Cole, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, at NGV
Including
“I was curious and amused — a night parrot, a marmoset and a bilby each side-eyed me back from three different zines”
Zoë Sadokierski, EXTRA!EXTRA!, 2020
A Hemline of Sky Through Smoke
A Hemline of Forest Through Smoke
A Hemline of Water Through Smoke
A pair of zines made-in-iso for you to download, print, fold, splice, share, to accompany a display of our zines and artists’ books in the cases of the Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK.
In the MET there is a “Pit from a Balanites tree with a hole caused by a rodent”, ca. 2381–2323 B.C., Old Kingdom, on view in Gallery 100.
We have been looking at you the wrong way round. We still do. To the gardeners of the sky.
Through a forest
Memory
The year that was
In hand, in mind
In the garden with you
Rewild
Museum Sketches: Your Specimens Sing an Operatic Chorus
Please, I’m looking for (whatever you are looking for)
Paint out
A zine, Poephila cincta, 2020, from twenty original postcard collages created as our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project, 2019.
For the Museum of Aphorisms and Platitudes, we created a real but not real 24-page catalogue of Through a glass eye.
This body of prints was produced with APW Printers at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, as part of Australian Print Workshop’s French Connections project curated by APW Director Anne Virgo OAM.
Animate. Animated. Animal.
Ripples in the Open
An expanded collage commissioned especially for ArtSpace at Realm, in which we call upon our love of cinema and collecting.