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Beastly: varmits, critters and strays in art

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Beastly: varmits, critters and strays in art
Delmar Gallery
Trinity Grammar School
144 Victoria Street
Ashfield, NSW
From Sunday the 23rd of November to Sunday the 7th of December 2014

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Exhibitions, Small projectsGracia LouiseNovember 8, 2014Beastly, Salvaged Relatives, collage, Great Auk, new work, costume, Ballet Russes
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Something new, and something beastly

Collaborative projects, Exhibitions, Drawing, Small projectsGracia LouiseNovember 9, 2014Giorgio de Chirico, Book Arts Newsletter, Le Bal, ballet, costume, Beastly, Delmar Gallery, Ballet Russes, cabinet cards
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Salvaged Relatives

Collaborative projects, Exhibitions, Store, Zines, PrintsGracia LouiseNovember 7, 2014Salvaged Relatives, GOOD MAIL DAY, artstream, Ballet Russes, costume, Plum-headed finch, moving parts, cabinet cards
 
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As soon as we met
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“The beginning of day”
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Stamping Ground
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Sep 7, 2019
“In the heavens for all eternity”
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Melody and Mythology
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Aug 19, 2019
MIFF 2019, from present to past tense
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Jul 22, 2019
Sights Unseen: Recent Acquisitions from the Moreland Art Collection
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Salvaged Relatives
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Jul 13, 2019
Other Worlds 2019 Short story competition
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Jul 10, 2019
Near to the lake’s edge
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Jul 9, 2019
Light and Shade
Jul 9, 2019
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Jul 8, 2019
Small things; precious things
Jul 8, 2019
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Jun 23, 2019
Like Light
Jun 23, 2019
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Jun 17, 2019
File under ‘Eye’
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Jun 14, 2019
It came like light out of the walls
Jun 14, 2019
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Jun 11, 2019
Evolve
Jun 11, 2019
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Jun 10, 2019
“The stability of nature can no longer be taken for granted”
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Jun 3, 2019
Keep an eye on
Jun 3, 2019
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May 31, 2019
In the museum
May 31, 2019
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May 23, 2019
Watercolour and pencil, blue, green, more
May 23, 2019
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Through a glass eye
May 22, 2019
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May 18, 2019
Through a forest
May 18, 2019
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May 17, 2019
Trees of Life for The Big Issue
May 17, 2019
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Divides and reassembles
May 16, 2019
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Windigo
May 15, 2019
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May 6, 2019
Shopfront
May 6, 2019
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Apr 15, 2019
Imprint: A Survey of the Print Council of Australia
Apr 15, 2019
Apr 15, 2019
“A series of images are performed”
Mar 31, 2019
“A series of images are performed”
Mar 31, 2019
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Mar 28, 2019
“A Certain Slant of Sunlight”
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Dark Night
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Follow the tail tracks to the dusting of sweets. Three guesses, not needed, I wager. The @ausballet 2019 season of ‘The Nutcracker’. 👑 🐀 Choreography: Peter Wright, Lev Ivanov, Vincent Redmon Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Set and costume design: John F Macfarlane Image credit: Artists of The Australian Ballet, photographed by Jeff Busby #rats #ausballet #Tchaikovsky #sugaredplums #TheNutcracker
Soft sculptures, mosaics, and animal portraits! Over the weekend, we had the pleasure of being judges for Art for the forthcoming Royal Melbourne Show, only we wore orange high-vis vests instead of these fetching brooches. Thank-you @royalmelbshow; we thoroughly enjoyed the experience. And congratulations to all who entered. Image credit: First Prize Certificate, 1890, awarded to Samuel Gardiner Esq for his champion thoroughbred mare, and a circular map of Royal Melbourne Show, produced by The Herald newspaper in 1930. #art #bestinshow #thisisspring #behindthescenes #RoyalMelbourneShow
Excitingly, merrily, thrillingly, at the end of the month, we return to Paris, this time in the role of tour guides for my Mum, @pasadenamansions. The itinerary, expertly planned and lovingly drawn here by Louise, is ready. Are we? Yes! #Paris #diary #maps #holiday #goodnews #thisisspring #thiswillbeautumn
For those of you following our #RSPCA #fosterfail, Arthur’s tail amputation journey, a little, lightly tufted, here-comes-the-spring update. A pom-pom is forming at the tip, and the whole area looks a little less drafty. You’ll also note, he is wearing his green “I’m official” lifetime council tag, though we all know he was officially part of the team from the day he arrived as a foster kitten in Easter. #cats #pets #home #welcome #thisisspring #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram
Beginning in silence, ‘Stamping Ground’ allows the dancers, and in turn, their spirit, to create sound through the percussion of their breathing, the variance of their clapping and stamping, so that when the music does erupt — Carlos Chávez’s Toccata para instrumentos de percussion (1942) — it is impossible to tell its exact source. From the wing sweep of arms to the monkey-like step with the feet overtaking the hands, animals are portrayed with a cheeky sense of humour and convey Jiří Kylián’s belief that “every dancer takes their personality and gives it as a gift to a common achievement”. Indeed, Ella Havelka (@ellahavelka), Baden Hitchcock, Tyrel Dulvarie, and Ryan Pearson are truly exhilarating to watch as their forms accommodate the imaginary shapes and spirits they pass between themselves, making counter convex shapes to concave ones. With a long sliding lunge, Havelka moves across the stage. Her knee rises to connect with her elbow which appears to ‘ping’ and float upwards upon contact. Standing side on, in a seated position, with her arms extended before her, joined at the wrist, she makes a clapping, snapping motion, while keeping her wrists pressed together. A bird’s powerful beak is suggested. Suddenly, the head of the body is the bird, and Havelka follows behind the bird she has made from her own hands. The bird turns back to confront her with a few snap-claps and sends her sliding back across the stage; two forms in the one body. ‘Stamping Ground’ echoes David Unaipon’s knowledge that there is “a great common understanding running through us all”: “Our legends and traditions are all the same tales, or myths, told slightly differently, with local colouring”. ✨Continue reading: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/bangarra-dance-theatre-2019 And on #FjordReview: https://www.fjordreview.com/stamping-ground-bangarra/ Image credit: Ryan Pearson, Tyrel Dulvarie, and Ella Havelka from Bangarra Dance Theatre (@bangarradancetheatre) in ‘Stamping Ground’, 2019, photographed by Daniel Boud #dance #JiříKylián #movement #celebration #bangarradancetheatre
The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure:— But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. (Lines from ‘Lines Written in Early Spring’ by William Wordworth, on a spring-blind day. With squinting Lenni chinny-chin whiskers for @dr_tickles.) #Lenni #spring #sprung #catwhiskers #catsofinstagram #siamesecatsofinstagram
Nineteen zines by my #RMITart (@rmit_art) Artists’ Book elective students, destined for State Library Victoria’s (@library_vic) zine collection. (So delighted for you all! Well done! — Louise) #zines #collection #SchoolofArt #theworkingtable #StateLibraryVictoria
This is a detail of the dog, a little Bolognese, I believe, in Francisco de Goya’s painting ‘The White Dutchess’ (1795). They appear at the feet of Spanish aristocrat Doña María del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva-Álvarez de Toledo y Silva Bazán, the 13th Duchess of Alba de Tormes, Grandee of Spain (1762–1802), a white flowing extension to a white flowing gown hemmed with gold embroidery. To her red sash, beads and ribbons, the coiffured Bolognese sports a matching red ribbon on its left hind leg. This is not the dog we met on our walk home from RMIT (@rmit_art) today, but it looked similar in the sense of scale and hue, and (presumed) bewilderment. This evening, we bumped into someone who had stopped to help a lost dog exploring Canning Street with a little too much ‘independence’. That someone was Marita Dyson of @theorbweavers, who we know thanks to instagram. How small the world, to us. How large the word, to the wandering pup. #earlier #lostdog #RMITart #thisisspring #theorbweavers
Again? Monday night? Let’s. Yes! Another chance to see Stanton Welch’s ‘Sylvia’ which draws on referable shapes, further heightening the sense that perhaps I am seeing a statue of #Artemis in the museum come to life on the stage. Or as though I am spinning a vase from Greek mythology so fast as to make a Centaur gallop, my own version of Eadweard Muybridge’s The Horse in Motion. With every stepping through heel of the foot first and fingers clicking with an inward accent, Greek folk dancing and a sense of community, and communication, evolves; peppered, of course, with humour. “What charm, what elegance, what richness of melody, rhythm, harmony”, described Tchaikovsky of Delibes’ ‘Sylvia’. Naturally, he was right. ‘Sylvia’ is an epic joy “in the heavens for all eternity” (@ausballet). 🏹 Read more, for #FjordReview: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/sylvia Image credit: Artists of The Australian Ballet in ‘Sylvia’, 2019, photographed by Jeff Busby #ballet #ausballet #LeoDelibes #onemoretime #StantonWelch
She sights a Bird — she chuckles — She flattens — then she crawls — She runs without the look of feet — Her eyes increase to Balls — Arthur could be Emily Dickinson’s chuckling cat as he sights a dove (who was looking for nesting material along the fence line and found the twiggy bits of oregano and the exposed roots of violets agreeable). Sitting on the front veranda, Arthur’s favourite spot. #cats #home #garden #fosterfail #catsofinstagram
I have long wished to swim through the other-worlds created by Georges Méliès, and Stanton Welch’s ‘Sylvia’, a co-production between Houston Ballet and the Australian Ballet (@ausballet), gives me the opportunity to do just that; to submerge myself in a fantastical landscape that delights in the play of model making and storytelling; in how we tell a #story and the story itself. Theatrical and larger than life. To me, the beauty of Méliès’ 1903 film, ‘The Kingdom of the Fairies’ (‘Le Royaume des Fées’), is derived in equal measure from the magical figures that appear to swim and the visibility of the harness around their forms that lets the performers achieve this sensation. I love the aquatic underworld Méliès has created for the detectable mechanics of his illusions as much as the effect of the creative #illusions themselves. It is the freedom to dream while still being tethered to the practicalities of a set. It is the tension between the trick and how it is done, and between character and performer, and by extension between fairy and human, god and mortal that draws parallels between ‘Sylvia’ and ‘The Kingdom of the Fairies’. 🏹 Read more on: https://www.fjordreview.com/sylvia-australian-ballet/ and http://www.graciahaby.com/home/sylvia Image credits: Artists of The Australian Ballet in ‘Sylvia’, photographed by Jeff Busby, alongside ‘Le Royaume des Fées’ by Georges #Méliès #ballet #Sylvia #Delibes #ausballet #FjordReview
All the Dwarf Russian Almonds and Running Postman flowers for you today, dearest Gracia. Happy, happy, happy 44th birthday. Wishing you all of the beautiful things in the world. All our love, Louise, (Rolling) Lottie, Olive, Leonard, Arthur, and Misha non-Penguin. XO 🌱 #happybirthday
Tonight, an anniversary. ‘Bangarra: 30 years of sixty five thousand’. 🔥✨ ‘Bangarra: 30 years of sixty five thousand’ is a three-part program with works performed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who come together as a creative clan to harness a shared spirit and deliver a program representative of the world’s stage. The program includes ‘Unaipon’, ‘Stamping Ground’ and ‘to make fire’. ‘Unaipon’ is an exhilarating exploration of David Unaipon’s remarkable journey from the shores of Lake Alexandrina within the Ngarrindjeri nation, and his passion for science and the great philosophies and cultures of the world. Jiří Kylián’s ‘Stamping Ground’ will see Bangarra present the work of an international guest artist for the first time in the company’s history. In 1980, Kylián, then Artistic Director for the Nederlands Dans Theater, attended a gathering of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clans on Groote Eylandt in the Gulf of Carpentaria, North East Arnhem Land. ‘to make fire’ is curated by Bangarra Artistic Director, Stephen Page and Bangarra’s Head of Design Jacob Nash, and draws on stories from all over Australia.’ @bangarradancetheatre Photo credit: Daniel Boud #dance #Bangarra #JiříKylián #StephenPage #DavidUnaipon #30thanniversary
In the park, this lovely, like a painting. (Paintings by Brenda Walsh) #galavant #thisisspring #errandsdash #throughthepark #dogsofinstagram
Bow, arrow, and energy at the ready for a spring back, doe-drawn chariot ride to Ancient Greece with Artemis, Sylvia and Psyche. (Incidentally, ‘Sylvia’ is one of the ringtones I use for the alarm on my iPhone; apologies if I get up mid performance or fumble in my bag to turn off what I think is my phone.) Choreography: Stanton Welch Staged by Louise Lester Guest Repetiteur: Mark Kay Music: Léo #Delibes Costume and set design: Jérôme Kaplan Lighting design: Lisa J. Pinkham Projection design: Wendall K. Harrington 🏹 ‘Sylvia’ is a co-production between Houston Ballet and The Australian Ballet. Image credit: Artists of The Australian Ballet in ‘Sylvia’. Photo © Jeff Busby. #ballet #Sylvia #ausballet #thisisspring #thisistuesday
New asphalt was smoothed out the front of our home, so we planted some nasturtiums along the exposed fence line and cuttings beneath the tree on the footpath; and Arthur’s red heart pulsed in the sun. #home #briefly #garden #fosterfail #catsofinstagram
Back. In the swing of it. For the last day of winter. Back to barre classes and laps (after a #MIFF2019 absence), and encounters with poodles, beagles, and mixers. And mixing up our routines, with different classes and times, lanes, positions, and days. (11am on a Saturday at the Fitzroy Swimming Pool proved today’s Idyll. Who knew?) We are ready for spring! Creaky, but alert. #lately #thesedays #splishsplash #thisissaturday #lastdayofwinter #dogsofinstagram
Little Arthur, our sixth #RSPCA foster cat, and our first foster fail, was adopted last Sunday, and, with a red heart for the collar, declared part of the family. At his final RSPCA check over, before moving from foster care to adoptee, the vet commented that with spring, much like a garden, his tail hair will grow. It is already starting to form a little pompom on the tip. Arthur’s tail amputation has been a success, and where once it hung limp (before surgery for a tail pull injury), it now waggles about. She also commented on the number of people who adopt animals with similar medical/health conditions to them. Little Arthur, with his nerve damage, was always meant to be a part of the menagerie. We can’t wait to see him flourish. #home #fosterfail #fostercare #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram
In 2013, we created two prints especially for ‘In Your Dreams’ (at Counihan Gallery, 2014), one of which featured Zarafa, the first giraffe to be seen in France (in 1826). Zarafa was an exotic gift to King Charles X, who inspired tall hairstyles à la girafe, and Honoré de Balzac to write a story about her. And 2019 ‘And Zarafa Kept Walking’ was one of two images entrants were invited to write or recite a story in response to, as part of the Other Worlds: 2019 Short story competition. She walked, out of context, from Marseilles to Paris, then, and to Coburg library last night for the Young adult and adult short story award night with guest Paddy O’Reilly. Entrants could also weave a tale in response to something sparked in Carmel Louise’s ‘The Vortex of Sins: Past & Present’. 🦒 While we didn’t get to read any of the stories or hear them spoken, we were delighted to glean in conversation a little of what people had read in the piece and where they had taken it. It was a real delight to know she continues to walk and reach. Thank-you for the opportunity, and congratulations to those who won, and to all who entered and shall continue to do so. Happy to be a small part of the journey. And we also appreciated recalling how we felt when we made this work, where we were going, and our dear elderly siamese cat, Omar, who passed away while the exhibition was on. Thanks for the memories. Pictured here, Zarafa, alongside the groom who would look after her for the next eighteen years, in ‘Study of the Giraffe Given to Charles X by the Viceroy of Egypt’ by Nicolas Huet the Younger (1827). And Omar, then, alongside kitten Lenni, and present day Olive. #Zarafa #giraffe #collage #memories #catsofinstagram #theworkingtable
Week 6 of the Artists’ Book elective (@rmit_art) combines assessment and peer-to-peer tutorials with a zine swap. On the heels of last week’s visit to State Library Victoria, I’m really enjoying teaching this class. #zines #RMITart #zineswap #allthefeels #artistsbooks
 
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