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100 Cats

You're invited to
100 Cats
(Supporting Ingrid's Haven)
Friday 5th to Friday 19th of September

Off the Kerb
66B Johnston Street, Collingwood, 3066, Victoria

Gallery hours
Thursday and Friday 12.30 – 6pm
Saturday and Sunday 12 – 5pm

Opening Friday the 5th of September, 6-9pm, we hope to see you there.

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Exhibitions, Small projectsGracia LouiseAugust 21, 2014100 Cats, Off the Kerb, Ingrid's Haven, postcard collage, invitation
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Collaborative projects, Exhibitions, Those everyday thingsGracia LouiseAugust 26, 2014Off the Kerb, 100 Cats, Ingrid's Haven, postcard collage, Leopard, Panthera pardus
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Dance/Film/Exhibition, Those everyday thingsGracia LouiseAugust 20, 2014MIFF 2014, Trespassing Bergman
 
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Jul 13, 2019
Other Worlds 2019 Short story competition
Jul 13, 2019
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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
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Jun 23, 2019
Like Light
Jun 23, 2019
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Jun 17, 2019
File under ‘Eye’
Jun 17, 2019
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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
Jun 11, 2019
Jun 10, 2019
“The stability of nature can no longer be taken for granted”
Jun 10, 2019
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Jun 3, 2019
Keep an eye on
Jun 3, 2019
Jun 3, 2019
May 31, 2019
In the museum
May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019
May 23, 2019
Watercolour and pencil, blue, green, more
May 23, 2019
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May 22, 2019
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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May 15, 2019
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
Mar 31, 2019
Mar 28, 2019
“A Certain Slant of Sunlight”
Mar 28, 2019
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Mar 28, 2019
Dark Night
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 28, 2019
Mar 27, 2019
“I am remembered; remember me.”
Mar 27, 2019
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Mar 26, 2019
“4 Signs Your Heart is Quietly Falling You”
Mar 26, 2019
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Distant Sky
Mar 26, 2019
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Mar 23, 2019
Lady Example
Mar 23, 2019
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Mar 22, 2019
“I help you to make your own world visible”
Mar 22, 2019
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Mar 16, 2019
Make Your Own World
Mar 16, 2019
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Mar 11, 2019
New titles for the Melbourne Art Book Fair
Mar 11, 2019
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Mar 10, 2019
The Big Issue
Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019
”There are believed to be fewer than 1,000 black-throated finches still alive, with the largest population surviving in the path of Adani's Carmichael mine site. More than 1,400 artworks of the bird have been mailed to politicians, including the Queensland Premier, Prime Minister and the state's Environment Minister. Adani says its conservation plan for the finch has undergone rigorous scientific examination, but opponents fear the bird will be wiped out by changes to its habitat.” ‘Adani opponents mail bird art to politicians in silent protest’, ABC News, 18th July, 2019: https://www.google.com.au/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/11318918 🐦 We have donated $160AUD to Birdlife Australia from the sale of the first four of our original postcard collages featuring Black-throated finches. Of the full flock of twenty collages, six were posted to politicians by way of protest, with the remainder available through our online store, with all collage sale proceeds being donated to Birdlife Australia. This is our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project (#BlackFinchProject) featured in ABC News. http://gracialouise.com/shop/artwork-black-throated-finch-postcard-collage #extinction #StopAdani #climatecrisis #BlackFinchProject #StopAdaniCoalMine #BlackThroatedFinch
When you realise you have to go back to the library on a much-longed-for home day because you neglected to return your books (one of which someone has placed on hold), but it turns out for the best because winter sun cat encounters are radiators for the heart. Enjoy ‘Artists and their books: books and their artists’ by Marcia Reed and Glenn Phillips, fellow borrower. #onfoot #RMITart #librarybooks #artistsbooks #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram
Literature is a part of life. It is not something “special”. All of life is nothing but a poem, a movement…. Here is what I wanted to say. I have a fever. And this is why I love the painting of the Delaunys, full of sun, of heat, of violence. Mme Delaunay has made such a beautiful book of colours that my poem is more saturated with light than is my life. That’s what makes me happy. Besides, think that this book should be two meters high! Moreover, that the edition should reach the height of the Eiffel Tower! — Blaise Cendrars (the pen name for Frédéric Louis Sauser), in 1913, on ‘La Prose du Transsibérien et de la Petite Jehanne de France’, a collaborative book project by Sonia Delaunay, quoted from the German magazine Der Sturm A “simultaneous book”. An accordion-folded ten times. To whet the appetite for next week’s first Artists’ Book unit at RMIT. #colours #artistsbooks #simultaneous #SoniaDelaunay #BlaiseCendrars
“For in and out, above, about, below, ’Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play’d in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.” —Omar Khayyám Be lined with vermillion. Be weighted with gold acorns. Salvaged Relatives, tucked inside a fairy tale inside a Solander box-nest where old age and weary muscles will not find you. We’re delighted that our Salvaged Relatives have reason once more to dust off their costumes, and take their choreography, like Vaslav #Nijinsky, from a toy duck with its “weighty, angular, downward thrust”. 🎶 Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison ‘Salvaged Relatives’, edition III 2014–2015 Artists’ book, unique state, featuring 21 individual collages on cabinet cards with pencil and paint additions (by Gracia Haby) Housed in a three-colour cloth Solander box (by Louise Jennison) with inlaid collage, ‘In the borrowed costume of a Polovtsian warrior (Prince Igor c. 1909–37)’ 🗝 Exhibited as part of the forthcoming SIGHTS UNSEEN: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE MORELAND ART COLLECTION 27th July – 18th August, 2019 “In recent years the Moreland Art Collection has experienced significant gains through purchases, commissions and a marked increase in the receipt of philanthropic donations. ‘Sights Unseen: Recent Acquisitions from the Moreland Art Collection’ draws together artworks held by the municipality not previously exhibited at the #CounihanGallery In Brunswick. Comprising photography, painting, drawing, prints, collage, artists’ books and mixed media, the artworks reflect a diverse range of contemporary practice as well as some fascinating historical offerings — a trove of cultural heritage for the City of Moreland.” Opening: Saturday 27th July 2019, 2 – 4 pm #dance #collage #collection #artistsbook #SalvagedRelatives
When not cleaning up straight quotes and making them curly and adding new bits of CSS code to our site (hello, Remove Hyphens on Mobile; pleased to meet you, Remove ‘X’ on Announcement Bar), we walked and encountered beauty on both the beach and the streets of North Carlton. Removing dead links in the archives made us long for the early days of blogging and the closeness of community. For the enthusiasm of a shared experience over style and polish. And yet revisiting past projects, though an important part of any journey, also made us feel sheepish. And joined to this the feeling that would anyone even notice if our apostrophes were sometimes straight where they should be curly. Looking back can be tough. Plough on. #onfoot #lookdown #squarespace #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram
Our Zarafa print from 2013 is one of two artworks you can write or recite a story in response to, as part of the ‘Other Worlds: 2019 Short story competition’. Entries close Sunday the 21st of July, 2019. Please see details below. Moreland City Libraries' Short story competition Writers of all ages are welcome to enter Moreland City Libraries’ ‘Other Worlds 2019 Short story competition’. Your story can be written in 500 words (or less) OR recited in 5 minutes (or less) To enter, complete a Short story competition entry form (PDF 1Mb) or obtain one from your local library. Contact Moreland City Council Moreland City Libraries readmore@moreland.vic.gov.au Head to https://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/libraries/children/short-storywriting-competition/ Image: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, ‘And Zarafa Kept Walking’, 2013, Four-colour lithographic offset print on Fabriano Artistico 300gsm traditional white hot-press paper 33 x 23 cm #read #write #Zarafa #collage #lithograph #shortstory
Just when we were feeling in need of a holiday meets pick-me-up, the release of the 68th #MIFF2019 film festival program. 46 films booked, and counting. Image credits: Odeon Theatre, dated 1919, courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives; a frame from Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ (1949); MIFF 2019 artwork by @patfoxart; and Lottie waiting out the front of the Capitol Theatre for the box office to open, dated 10.55am, Wednesday 10th of July, 2019. #film #holiday #cinema #promise #filmfestival #thisiswinter
This is Oscar (RSPCA Shelter ID No. 913120). He is 11 years old, and patiently waiting (East Burwood) for a retirement home with no other cats or dogs. We met him briefly today at the shelter before our little #RSPCA (#fosterfail?) #fostercat’s appointment to check how his tail is healing post surgery. He is on antibiotics and painkillers for a further ten days, and we need to clean the tail wound twice daily with saline, and apply a cream. As with our previous fosters, he is proving a most obliging patient. The RSPCA are currently looking for foster carers. Find out more: https://www.rspcavic.org #Oscar #RSPCAvic #seniorcats #adoptdontshop #catsofinstagram
A bevy of black swans circled our car parked near to the lake’s edge. It was my first encounter with a black swan, nose to beak, separated only by a wind-up wind-down window pane. I would have been no taller than one of the swans, had I’ve been out of the car. I remember feeling awestruck by their scale, their very presence, and yet as I was four-years-of-age, or thereabouts, is this a later addition stitched to a memory derived from family folklore? My Mum recalled one of the swans hopped up on the car’s bonnet, but wonders now if such a spectacle is likely. A small car buried beneath a mountain of feathered bodies, it is almost a cartoon image — better yet, a cinematic one — when viewed from a human perspective. In territorial union to our intrusion, the swans rallied, and looped for me a definitive impression of swans, lakes, and Tchaikovsky. The swans of my memory and family folklore were not so unlike the hissing, awe-inspiring Chimeras within Jean-Christophe Maillot’s LAC, a modern telling of Swan Lake, performed with attack by the renowned Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Imposing, glorious, memorable. In LAC, Maillot, together with writer Jean Rouaud, resurrected “these buried experiences”, albeit against a more “Machiavellian, family backdrop …. to present a ballet of contrasts. The change from animal into human being infuse[d] the entire work and question[ed] our own nature. We believe that we differ from animals because of our ability to make choices. But is this all we are capable of? …. Perhaps our humanity ultimately lies in this unsophisticated insatiability that defines us from our first cry — We want everything!” Continue reading on Fjord Review, and reposted to Marginalia: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/2019/lac 🦢 Images: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (@lesballetsdemontecarlo) in LAC by Jean-Christophe Maillot, photographed by Alice Blangero #LAC #ballet #chimera #memory #FjordReview #LesBalletsdeMonteCarlo
In which Graham Oakley’s Sampson and the Church Mice series makes us think perhaps we should #RSPCA #fosterfail. He (Little-Lee #RSPCAvic Shelter ID No. 912530) just gets along with everyone. Image credit: Graham Oakley, ‘They Just Hoped that Elvis was a Heavy Sleeper’, 2000, ink and watercolour drawing from ‘The Church Mice Take a Break’, 12 x 30cm. “Graham Oakley's delightful series of Church Mice books were inspired by observing the former inhabitants (the mice) of an old mill the artist was renovating in Wiltshire. The escapades of the church mice are closely monitored by their friend, Sampson, the churches ginger tabby cat. In this tale Sampson and the mice need to rescue their fossil from under the nose of Elvis, a sleeping poodle.” — Jonkers Rare Books, UK #cats #Sampson #gingertoms #churchmice #childhoodbooks #SampsonandtheChurchMice
On #theworkingtable, a fold of papers and a neatness of notes. Louise will be teaching Artists’ Books this semester at RMIT (@rmit_art). From making a Retchoso notebook to zines, by way of some hard covers, stab and coptic binding, things are looking exciting. #WIP #notes #RMITart #artistsbooks #bookbinding
When you watch MasterChef Australia (S11, Ep. 13, aired Wednesday 15th of May, 2019) with your finger hovering over the pause button in the hope that you’ll see your artists’ books in the #domedais of the La Trobe Reading Room, @library_vic. #collage #inthelibrary #artistsbooks #NigelaLawson #GraciaLouiseLooped
Days fall a particular way. In a regularly repeated arrangement. Stretch. Splash. Lottie waits (with one of us) out the front of the supermarket. Familiar patterns peppered with a curious encounter. A man bends down to tell Lottie, “no chicken, chicken; be lentil, lentil”. #pattern #thesedays #atthebeach #thisiswinter #fitzroyswimmingpool
Animals — Action. These two words go hand in hand in art. — Alexander Calder, 1926 (Calder, revisited, at @ngvmelbourne, and if you don’t have a pen and a piece of paper handy, an impression with a knife on a serviette will suffice. Lovely to see you today, @catmary11 and team.) #NGV #Calder #doubledip #NGVCalder #thisissunday
Me: I see you, eventually. Up high, on the veranda. Lottie: I see you, instantly. Chasing a ball, across the oval. Today’s winter stroll. #winter #onfoot #notmycat #inthegarden #dogsofinstagram
We have donated $120AUD to Birdlife Australia from the sale of the first three of our original postcard collages featuring Black-throated finches. Of the full flock of twenty collages, six were posted to politicians by way of protest, with the remainder available through our online store, with all collage sale proceeds being donated to Birdlife Australia. This is our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project (#BlackFinchProject). http://gracialouise.com/shop/artwork-black-throated-finch-postcard-collage #extinction #StopAdani #climatecrisis #BlackFinchProject #StopAdaniCoalMine #BlackThroatedFinch
Kirk Douglas (as Spartacus): And maybe there’s no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don’t know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves. This is Spartacus, a three-year-old, desexed male, domestic short hair (RSPCA Shelter ID No. 919518). He has seen a lot. He’s looking for a home with no children, other animals, and he is wary of strangers. But he has a soft pink heart for a nose. He is currently up for adoption at the RSPCA East Burwood shelter. #adopt #RSPCAvic #Spartacus #gingertoms #adoptdontshop #catsofinstagram
Hiss! Kiss! Plunging into Jean-Christophe Maillot’s ‘LAC’, and sprouting feathers, one more time, with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. 🖤🦢 Image credit: Artists of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo; photography by Alice Blangero #LAC #ballet #SwanLake #AfterSwanLake #LesBalletsdeMonteCarlo
All photos, 22,821 Scrolling, saving, deleting, keeping. Memories, all, and bubbling, brimming. A reminder, for those in Adelaide, chanced upon, in the stream. Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison ‘It came like light out of the walls’ & Kyoko Imazu (@kyokoimazu) ‘In the Neighbourhood’ Until Sunday 21st of July, 2019 West Gallery Thebarton 32 West Thebarton Road, Thebarton, South Australia #nature #collage #exhibition #KyokoImazu #itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
We created twenty original postcard collages featuring Black-throated finches. “Adani is saying the birds can just fly somewhere else — well, I’m afraid to say there are very few places left for our threatened species to just fly somewhere else, so that’s just a joke.” — Sean Dooley, Birdlife Australia Our contribution to the Black-throated Finch Project, initiated by artist Charlotte Watson (#BlackFinchProject). Yesterday, six of the originals were posted directly to politicians by way of protest. The fourteen remaining are now available through our online store. Our individual postcard collages are usually priced at $80 however individuals from this flock are priced at $40, and all proceeds from sales will be donated by us to Birdlife Australia. http://gracialouise.com/shop/artwork-black-throated-finch-postcard-collage 🐦 “Now found only in Queensland, the Southern Black-throated finch has already been declared #extinct in New South Wales. Its two known remaining strongholds are in the Townsville area, where it occupies land that is being carved up for residential development, and the Galilee Basin region where numerous coal mines are proposed — including Adani’s controversial Carmichael coal mine. The Queensland Government has approved Adani’s groundwater management plan clearing Adani to start construction work on the controversial Carmichael coal mine. The Galilee Basin is the most important #habitat left for the Southern Black-throated Finch, with significant populations discovered at Adani’s Carmichael mine site in 2013. Improper management of this area will accelerate the Southern Black-throated Finch down the path to #extinction.” — https://www.actforbirds.org/black-throated-finch-petition #StopAdani #climatecrisis #BlackFinchProject #StopAdaniCoalMine #BlackThroatedFinch
 
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