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Recent articles on Marginalia (by Gracia) alongside news and exhibitions.

What is this Work Life Balance you speak of?

March 11, 2014 Gracia Louise

Recently landed: What is this Work Life Balance you speak of?, a new post on High Up in the Trees (by Gracia)

Fooling around with bills, giving contour to legs, and adding spike to fins

Fooling around with bills, giving contour to legs, and adding spike to fins

From films that showed me what was possible in every varied sense, to a challenge that unlocked the choir held within a single frame, here is a film, my go-to comforter, Remy and the colony. Behold! Such splendid bristles!
#rat
#film
#Remy
#animation
#Ratatouille

Thanks to Leonard and Lottie, plenty of new zines coming, all in readiness for our fifth time at the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair (14–17 March 2019). (Lovely to see you today, @jim.pavlidis, and thanks for the biscuits. Enjoy your box set of zines. And Lenni asks, where did the bag go?)
#WIP
#zines
#productionline
#LenniandLottie
#catsofinstagram

The final stages of our new zine, ‘Please, I’m looking for (whatever you are looking for)’, on a Sunday night. The title of the zine is drawn from a list of useful French phrases. And you will be able to ask ‘S
s’il vous plaît, je cherche (un zine)’ at the forthcoming NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair in March.
#WIP
#zines
#MABF
#Lottie
#thisissunday

Ten pretty stills all in a row, is how my garden grows.
(For @jurachook, following the rules, more or less, posting “an image, no explanation, from 10 movies that had an impact on me. 10 films, 10 images, 10 nominations. No explanations”. I nominate anyone up for the challenge.)
#film
#image
#impact
#tenfilms
#personal

Lottie. Forever. All ears. On the canvas. A beautiful, beautiful painting by Elaine Haby (@pasadenamansions) especially for Louise to celebrate her recent birthday. Brava Mum! Three cheers Louise! Woof Miss Lottie!
‘Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.’
— #OrhanPamuk, ‘My Name Is Red’
#painting
#thankyou
#oilpainting
#ElaineHaby
#dogsofinstagram

‘....the cool color of skin where the breath of a word rustles the leaves slightly, like a small bird — it is here that one knows the tranquillity of dreaming — color of ‘being’.’
— #JoyHester, ‘Sleep’, a part of, written in 1948
Today, before love and Piccinini’s ‘Balasana’ (2009), ‘child’s pose’ with the comfort and trust of a wallaby and vice versa.
‘....suggesting a world where people coexist harmoniously with the natural world around them. This is a dream, I know, and likely to remain so.’
— #PatriciaPicinini
At @tarrawarrama, with Louise and @georgiacribb for ‘through love’.
#love
#earlier
#tarrawarra
#thisissummer
#tarrawarramuseumofart

Thursday, rewound, to a pavement dance with a cat by the name of Tex. ⭕️
#Tex
#cats
#notmycat
#catsofinstagram
#catsihavedancedwith

One of each ‘French Connections’ print, handcoloured, delivered, and ready to be documented; five views of a creeping Honey possum, on #theworkingtable, closer to ready for the forthcoming NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair; and creatures sighted in between, from a contented lorikeet with a seed block of one’s own to a dog named Oslo scratching that itch. Thursday, rewound.
#zines
#today
#printmaking
#pocketviews
#FrenchConnections

Keep an eye out! Or two. Or three. A varied day, on #theworkingtable, coiled by tails. From hand-colouring prints to scoring zines, things of late, on their way to becoming closer to done.
#👀
#WIP
#zines
#animals
#inthestudio

Momentarily lost in the beautiful and powdery tiny worlds of ‘Visions of Paradise: Indian Court Paintings’ as I turned 43. Thank-you for all of your birthday messages, cards, texts, and presents. XO 🐅
(Image credit: Jai Ram, ‘Maharana Jagat Singh II attending the invocation before a Raslila performance’, 1736, opaque watercolour and gold paint on paper, 59.5 x 44.9 cm)

#NGV
#thankyou
#watercolour
#inthegallery
#happybirthday
#IndianPaintings
#IndianCourtPaintings

Happy Birthday to you, dear Louise! Making our new zine, ‘Museum Sketches: Your Specimens Sing an Operatic Chorus’, with you last night as the clock struck midnight seemed an auspicious way to usher in your 43rd birthday. To all things full of promise! To a wonderful day, and a rosy year of dreaming, doing, and vim. Happy Birthday to you, love G and the Tails XO (Pictured here, a Leadbeater’s possum, @melbournemuseum.) #hooray
#drawing
#inthemuseum
#happybirthday
#museumsketches

We return from another wonderful @stickyinstitute Festival of the Photocopier feeling inspired, and, perhaps like many, hop straight to work on a new zine, ‘Museum Sketches: Your Specimens Sing an Operatic Chorus’. (Thank-you Sticky for your own expert aria. Another marvellous #FOTP2019.)
#zines
#ideas
#drawings
#inthemuseum
#muséefragonard

Here, in the car park of Trades Hall (stall A26), until 5pm. Roll by, friends, and paw over some our new zines.
#zines
#zinefair
#FOTP2019
#thisissunday
#stickyinstitute

Earlier, in the quick change of morning light, before the rain, and weariness set in. Final photo: in-the-bag mistake, just right.
#light
#earlier
#onfoot
#withLottie
#thisissummer
#dogsofinstagram

Find us, and editions of ‘Paint out’, at stall A26 at tomorrow’s zine fair at Trades Hall. The @stickyinstitute zine fair is in full swing today and tomorrow from noon until 5pm, with different stall holders on both days.
#zines
#collage
#zinefair
#FOTP2019
#seeyouthere

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