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The Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis

Recently landed: The Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, a new post on Elsewhere (by Louise)

Louise Jennison, The very last pair (II) (detail), 2014, drawing

Louise Jennison, The very last pair (II) (detail), 2014, drawing

Exhibitions, DrawingGracia LouiseApril 6, 2014In Your Dreams, Great Auk, extinct, Natural History Museum
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Dance/Film/ExhibitionGracia LouiseApril 5, 2014The Middle Room, FOLA, Nat Cursio, dance, performance, Fjord Review
We are delighted to invite you to our exhibition ’Through a glass eye’ at the Australian Print Workshop. Opening 2 to 4pm Saturday 1 June, 2019 Exhibition dates: Saturday 1 to Saturday 29 June, 2019 Australian Print Workshop 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy If you are free and curious to see this work with your own eyes, we’d love to see you there. Read more: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/watercolour-and-pencil 🦉 Image credit: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, ‘At the Musée Fragonard d’Alfort’, etching with hand-colouring. Image drawn directly on to the copper plate by the Artists and processed, proofed and printed in an edition of 20 (plus proofs), in three colours from one plate, by APW Printer Martin King (@artmartz) and hand-coloured by the Artists, at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 2019. #owl #exhibition #Winkingowl #youreinvited #FrenchConnectionsAPW
The curve of a tail, bobbing. Paw prints and my tread. And all those before us. We return to our happy pattern. By the sea. #Lottie #pattern #flyLottiefly #thisisautumn #dogsofinstagram
Work on ‘It came like light out of the walls’ continues. ✂️ With our planet on the verge of another major extinction event[i], the question is “whether plants and animals can adapt quickly enough to outpace climate change. We often think of evolution as something that happens slowly, but that’s not always the case. If the selection pressures are strong enough, evolution can happen over mere decades”.[ii] We now have “several examples [of] where organisms have evolved in response to selection pressures associated with #climate change, including changes in the timing of life history events and in the ability to tolerate abiotic and biotic stresses arising from climate change. There are concerns that the rates of #environmental changes are too fast to allow many, especially large and long-lived, organisms to maintain adaptedness…. Hence, widespread maladaptation and #extinctions are expected”.[iii] 🌱 [i] Tony Hiss, ‘Can the World Really Set Aside Half of the Planet for Wildlife?: The eminent evolutionary biologist E.O. Wilson has an audacious vision for saving Earth from a cataclysmic extinction event’, Smithsonian Magazine, September 2014, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-world-really-set-aside-half-planet-wildlife-180952379/, accessed 2nd April, 2019. [ii] Helen Thompson, ‘Ten Species That Are Evolving Due to the Changing Climate: From tropical corals to tawny owls, some species are already being pushed to evolve — but adaptation doesn’t guarantee survival’, 24th October, 2014, Smithsonian.com, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-species-are-evolving-due-changing-climate-180953133/#vW0EYl6zpd8GT4uT.99, accessed 13th April, 2019. [iii] Juha Merilä and Ary A. Hoffmann, ‘Evolutionary Impacts of Climate Change’, Environmental Science, August 2016, http://oxfordre.com/environmentalscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389414-e-136, accessed, 2nd April, 2019. 🔥 #WIP #collage #climatecrisis #thisisautumn #theworkingtable #Itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
Rewind. Earlier, we delivered ‘Nineteen’, a limited edition compilation set of all our recent zines to Melbourne University Library (@unimelbspecialcollections). From 2018 ‘Your gelatine silver print, in the shape of the full moon’ ‘Paw Pad Path’ ‘Looped’ ‘I think all the world is falling’ ‘No longer six feet under’ ‘Disrupted and rumpled’ ‘Dim wood, spark bright’ ‘A warmed pebble in my hand’ From 2017 ‘Limbed’ ‘Winged’ ‘Dove, love, wash’ ‘Here, there’ ‘Duck in, duck out’ ‘Flippered and flightless’ ‘Pattern’ ‘Round, circle, dot’ ‘Take a lesson from the ground’ ‘Seasonal museum sketches (autumn)’ ‘It was a familiar pattern’ #zines #books #collage #collection #artistsbooks #unimelblibrary
A pillow fit for a cat, by the computer. All’s well. (Today, our little #RSPCA foster cat (Shelter ID No. 912530) had a checkup to see how the nerve damage in his tail is going. It’s likely his tail will need to be amputated, but we’ll know more by the end of the week.) #home #foster #fostercat #catsofinstagram #theworkingtable
We always enjoy the challenge of creating collages to illustrate a particular tale for The Big Issue (@bigissueaustralia). And this feeling rolls over into seeing the collage printed upon the page. On Marginalia (Through a forest: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/trees), take a look at two commissions from this year, featuring both the selected collage and its companions also submitted for consideration. Here is a look at the forest we grew to accompany Raphaelle Race’s ‘Trees of Life’ about Sophie Cunningham’s City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest. Pick up a copy of the latest issue (No. 587, available until the 30th of May). 🌱 #nature #collage #CityofTrees #TheBigIssue #ClimateCrisis
We need to preserve marine and land-based ecosystems; increase the connection between natural areas to secure the migration routes that allow for species to travel to cooler zones, and enable the congregation of larger populations needed to support genetic diversity required for phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution. This is what we have shoehorned into our series ‘It came like light out of the walls’, our functioning (or not) ecosystem on the page. That organisms are not static is our light (within our drawings). #WIP #collage #drawing #theworkingtable #catsofinstagram #Itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
In the park, we meet a woman out walking her elderly Great Dane named Carl. She asks if we would mind taking a photo of her and apologises for her “odd request”. She is relieved she has made it out of the house with two small toddlers and a baby strapped to her torso. They are moving as a cohesive, calm unit, and she’d like the moment captured so as to send the image to her partner. Carl obliges by going to the toilet as we take their photo of real life harmony. On Election Day, we also met a rescue dog named Alice, new to off-the-lead encounters, and we lined up behind a 4-month-old Pomeranian named Goldie. Paws and paths and light. And now we wait. #auspol #electionday #andnowwewait #theworkingtable #dogsofinstagram #Itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
All delivered, safe and sound, one ‘Ripples in the Open, toy scale’. Make yourself tiny and climb into it at the 49th St Kevin’s College Art Show 2019 (@skc.artshow). The exhibition runs from the 25th to 27th of May, KC Smith Hall, Moonga Road, St Kevin’s College Toorak. #nature #collage #exhibition #inmyhand #RipplesintheOpen
Happy to see our collage created especially for Sophie Cunningham’s City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest (‘Trees of Life’ by Raphaelle Race, p. 30) in the current edition of The Big Issue (17–30 May, 2019, No. 587), with Greta Thurnberg on the cover. We heartily recommend you grab a copy of both book and magazine. 🌳🔥 #trees #nature #collage #walking #CityofTrees #climatecrisis
On #theworkingtable, another walrus appears, and we are one away from reaching double digits. Our fifteen-panelled collaged drawing is growing, and we’ll not know how it looks altogether until it is ready to install. But we have a map, and we’re yet to encounter a wrinkle (in our plan) we couldn’t smooth. #WIP #collage #drawing #watercolour #Itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
Five years ago. Lenni. Darker ear-tips. Squinting. 🍂 #WIP #collage #theworkingtable #catsofinstagram #Itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
Delighted to discover we share an admiration for the work of Natalia Goncharova and undulating tentacles with Sebastian Blue Pin. “I am studying costume with Royal Opera House and making a replica of Goncharova’s 1916 Sadko Squid costume at present. Just discovered your MARVELOUS collage of the dress with the fruit bat. WONDERFUL! So glad we both are championing this wonderful costume! +++” Here is Sebastian Blue Pin’s own Costume for a Squid, after Natalia Goncharova, of hand-dyed and painted silks, goldwork Russian braid, 20s goldwork ribbon, gold foil heat-pressed linen and wire. (Thank-you for sharing your beautiful work with us, Sebastian Blue Pin.) 🦑 Natalia Goncharova Costume for a Squid c.1916 “Sergei Diaghilev’s Les Ballets Russes presented the underwater ballet segment of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s 1898 fairytale opera #Sadko in New York in 1916, with designs for costumes by the Russian artist and designer #NataliaGoncharova and scenery designed by Boris Anisfeld. Goncharova imagined vivid marine creatures, such as the seahorse and the squid characters for this epic Russian #folk poem set in Novgorod, Russia, in which Sadko, an impoverished musician, leaves his wife in search of his fortune. He plays his guslei by the shores of Lake Ilmen, captivating Princess Volkova, the youngest daughter of the King of the Sea. Following the spectacle of their wedding, attended by monsters of the deep and fantastic #sea creatures, Sadko returns to his wife in Novgorod and the Princess is transformed into the Volkova River. This #BalletsRusses dance interpretation of the story was based on the sixth scene of the opera, The kingdom under the sea, focusing of the festivities of Sadko and Volkova’s wedding. Goncharova’s knowledge and love of Russian folk dress can be seen in her design of these costumes and in the shape of the headdresses for the marine characters.” From: Collection highlights: National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2014 #costume #SalvagedRelatives
Charmed by the woof-woof and paddle-paddle of ‘Dog’ (1909, brass sheet; Calder Foundation, New York Mary Calder Rower Bequest, 2011) and ‘Duck’ (1909, brass sheet, Calder Foundation, New York Mary Calder Rower Bequest, 2011) at ‘Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor’, at @ngvmelbourne with @peterhaby and @pasadenamansions for a lovely kinetic Mother’s Day. (Happy Mother’s Day, Mum. 💕) “An eleven-year-old Calder presented his parents with these small #sculptures as Christmas gifts in 1909. The ingenious fashioning of three-dimensional forms from a flat sheet of brass suggests a kind of prodigy, and foreshadow Calder’s unique spatial and visual thinking. Contours are cut flat in a continuous line, much like a sewing pattern, achieving uncanny resemblances to the actual #animals with wit and #imagination. With a few simple bends, the dog stands on point with nose forward, ear and tail up and out. Likewise, with two neat folds, semicircles form the head and body of a duck. The duck is #kinetic, rocking back and forth when tapped.” — #NGVCalder (Additional images: André Kertész, ‘Alexander Calder with His Circus, Paris, 1929’, printed ca. 1960, gelatin silver print, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum; ‘Rigoulot, the Strong Man, Weight Lifter’, Alexander Calder (1898–1976), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, by Sheldan C. Collins, from Calder’s Circus (1926–1931); ‘Equestrian act from Cirque Calder (1926–1931)’, 2017 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
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