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Sticky Institute Zine Fair 2019

The Sticky Institute annual Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair is coming up soon.

Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair
Trades Hall
54 Victoria Street, Carlton
Sunday 10th of February
12 pm – 5 pm

The zine fair runs for two days and we will be there on the Sunday, looking forward to seeing you there.

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ZinesGracia LouiseJanuary 18, 2019Sticky Institute, zine fair, The Festival of the Photocopier, Trades Hall
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ExhibitionsGracia LouiseJanuary 27, 2019Ripples in the Open, umwelt, nature, lenticular prints, Melbourne Museum, Realm, RMIT University Library
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Impressions 2018

Exhibitions, PrintsGracia LouiseJanuary 17, 2019Australian Print Workshop, black swan, French Connections, etching, Impressions, fundraiser
One of the nicest parts about having an exhibition a short distance from home is being able to walk down with Lottie to meet people and introduce them to our museum specimens. Thank-you Janice (pictured). And thank-you @greerhoneywill for finding these prints “exquisite” on “a gloriously sunny winter’s day”. Dear all, thank-you. Image credit: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, ‘On a perch of “cheval usure des dents”, chirping’, 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 and hand-coloured by the Artists, at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 2019. #bitds #prints #etchings #thankyou #museumspecimen #FrenchConnectionsAPW
‘A little palace of pink marble and porphyry’ makes known three views of a Western pygmy possum, and three views of a Powerful owl. And at the Palais Garnier, ‘Contemplating marble, stucco, velvet, and gilding’, three views of a Koala, a Leadbeater’s possum, and a Red kangaroo. Created in the memory of pressing our noses to glass before a Thylacine specimen, beholding a “liminal creature …. a radical little boundary crosser: both intimate and strange, creaturely and objectified, profoundly dead and holding out the promise of futurity”*. 🦉 ‘Through a glass eye’ Until Saturday 29th of June, 2019 Australian Print Workshop Gallery 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy This work 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. * Hannah Stark, ‘The Cultural Politics of Mourning in the Era of Mass Extinction: Thylacine Specimen P762’, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 63, November 2018. (Gallery installation photos by @greshtim.) #koala #nature #lithography #museumspecimen #FrenchConnectionsAPW
A shared space for walruses and beetles. And Lottie-Dogs too. “The habitats that make up our planet are connected and reliant upon each other. The astonishing diversity of life on earth depends on these global connections.” — ONE PLANET, OUR PLANET 🐜 Our exhibition, ‘It came like light out of the walls’, together with Kyoko Imazu’s ‘In the Neighbourhood’, runs until Sunday the 21st of July. At West Gallery Thebarton, 32 West Thebarton Road, South Australia. See more on Marginalia: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/like-light Image: Kyoko Imazu, ‘Beetle Spotting’, Etching and aquatint, 73cm x 54cm #nature #upclose #atadistance #dogsofinstagram #itcamelikelightoutofthewalls
Over in Versailles, ‘In the Trianon theatre, before a forest set’, a Common spotted cuscus, a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo, a Herbert River ringtail possum, and a Dusky antechinus wound like a ball of twine wait.... We are “interested in the way in which the past is imagined and inherited”[i]. And upon the thread of these borrowed words, in the way that the histories “we tell, that we inhabit, animate our understanding and action …. How we tell the past plays a powerful role in structuring what is nurtured into the future and what is allowed or required to slip away”. Just as the collection reveals the collector, our prints reveal us, their very ‘stuffed’ and ‘stilted’ selection feels like a series of awkward self-portraits (of us all, perhaps). And beneath the skin, within their molecular makeup, “the specimens reveal more than the mere identities of their owners. Their sizes and shapes show how bodies adapt: how lizards evolve longer legs when faced with invasive fire ants, or how songbirds become smaller as the climate gets hotter and sharper-winged as deforestation forces them into open habitats”[ii]. These are specimens, removed from action, animated, possibly, by your vantage point in the gallery. An animated afterlife. “Animated precisely by what is not recoverable”[iv]. . . . Sharing this self portrait as the animal we both most resemble today is the centrally placed ball of antechinus, with their paws tucked over their snout. Today, Louise has a small procedure under ultrasound; she is having abdominal wall steroids and local injections to hopefully ease the abdominal pain for a little bit. *paws crossed* . . . [i] Thom van Dooran, ‘Life at the Edge of Extinction: Spectral Crows, Haunted Landscapes and the Environmental Humanities’. [ii] Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa, ‘To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens’. [iv] Judith Butler, ‘Afterward: After Loss, What Then?’, Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Image: ‘In the Trianon theatre, before a forest set’, lithograph with hand-colouring, printed by APW Printer Martin King at Australian Print Workshop, 2019. #exhibition #lithography #chronicpain #Duskyantechinus #FrenchConnectionsAPW
Little #RSPCA foster ‘cotton tail’ cat, Little-Lee (Shelter ID No. 912530), beholds the view from the front veranda, in the spirit of a Townsend’s Rocky mountain hare, and reveals to us how far he has come and how far he still has to travel. Inside the house, the robust patient, who waggles his tail, seems an emboldened lion. Outside, snuggled high on Louise’s shoulder, he appears half his size. He is recovering well from his surgery, and the slight swelling at what is the new tail tip has gone down. Once the stitches come out, he won’t have to wear the cumbersome plastic cone, and he’ll really be free in his movements. It is remarkable how far he has come and how brilliantly he has adjusted. Seeing him now able to move his whole body, right to the tip, is a delight. This is why we foster. Thank-you for all your messages. 💛 Image: Townsend’s Rocky Mountain Hare (detail), Plate III, Drawn on Stone by R. Trembly, drawn from Nature by from John James Audubon F.R.S., F.L.S., ‘The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America’. “Although now famed for his enormous ‘Birds of America’, a labour of love which took 20 years to complete, towards the end of his life, #Audubon also began preparation for a similarly ambitious work on the mammals of North America. His son, John Woodhouse Audubon, assisted in the drawing of several species and his friend, John Bachman, wrote the accompanying text. The first volume was published in its entirety in 1846 but Audubon did not live to see the whole work finished. His sons published the second and third volumes following his death in 1851.” — Royal Collection Trust, UK #recovery #RSPCAvic #fostercare #gingertoms #catsofinstagram
“As soon the question “What is lost?” is posed, it invariably slips into the question “What remains?” …. loss is inseparable from what remains, for what is lost is known only by what remains of it, by how these remains are produced, read, and sustained”[i]. As we wandered through Le musée Fragonard, a museum of anatomical oddities and dissections, mounted and spirit specimens, and educational models, located in the École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort, Maisons-Alfort, France, we thought about all of the animals immortalised in the collection, now with a timber base for earth and glass for sky. . . . Sharing this today, as we begin work on a series of collages for the Black-Throated Finch project. @lindastudena: “The Black-throated Finch is a small bird that has had its territory systematically removed by land clearing and development. There are approx 1500 birds left in the wild with the largest population directly on the site of the proposed Adani Carmichael mine. Adani had to prove it had a conservation management plan for the finch population. This approved plan has been strongly condemned by scientists and conservation groups. The aim is to send 1000 artworks of Black-throated finches to the government. Sign up to the project to send your message: www.charlottewatson.org/black-throated-finch (@cwatson_studio)” . . . [i] David Eng and David Kazanijan, ‘Introduction: Mourning Remains’, Loss: The Politics of Mourning, edited by David Eng and David Kazanijan (California: University of California Press, 2003), p. 2. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pp71r Image: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, ‘Two views of a Gouldian finch’, 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 and hand-coloured by the Artists, at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 2019. #art #action #StopAdani #1000finches #BlackFinchProject #StopAdaniCoalMine #BlackThroatedFinch #FrenchConnectionsAPW #BlackThroatedFinchProject
An edition of 10, ’Keep a beady eye on’ is a fake souvenir for a real collection to file under Eye. Why not take a look this Sunday. 👁 ‘Museum of Aphorisms and Platitudes #4’ Curated by Phil Edwards (@phil9076) c3 Contemporary Art Space (@c3artspace) Until the 14th of July, 2019 “The Museum of Platitudes and Aphorisms is part of a series of #exhibitions and events that explore how individual #artists and audiences explore their thinking about the presence of art in a #studio or a #gallery environment. It seems that there is a kind of peripheral vision that occurs in all artist’s practices that, once recognised, avoids or extends the awareness of the role of art and galleries in our lives. The aim of the project is to ask both makers and observers to reflect upon their own values in the experiences of making, encountering and looking at #art. The role of the #museum or gallery as the psychological architecture used to reflect upon accepted knowledge is also in review.” Nada Polski, Fleur Summers, James Healey, Henry Law, David Dellafiora, Susan Hartigan, Gracie Edwards, Nico Tavella, Richard Harding, Peter Ellis, Chris Deakin, Louise Weaver, Shaun Wilson, Tammy Honey, Michael Vale, Greg Moncrieff, Fran Van Riemsdyk, Craig Easton, Simon Perry, Joyce Huang, David Thomas, Cat Polski, Adrian De Vries, Shane Hulbert, Tammy Hulbert, James Murnane, Jim Murnane, Kit Wise, Elouise Harper, Madeleine, Bronte Webster, Wilma Tabacco, Charles O’Loughlin, Peter Clarke, Colleen Morris, Peter Hill, David Thomson, Lesley Duxbury, John de la Roche, Lesley O’Gorman, Greg Fullerton, Tiffany Parbs, Ron Guy, Kristian Brennan, Ceri Hann, Jason Wade, Ben Sheppard, Rhett D’Costa, P J Hickman, Robin Kingston, Harry Hay, Simon Gardam, Paul Compton, Morris Edwards, Malcom Bywaters, Julian Goddard, Ben Harper, Rod Prohasky, Al Outchomsky, Rhonda Watson, John MacKinnon, Stephanie Kam, Gabriel Nielsen, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Jim Ross, Guy Hughes, Raphael Buttonshaw, Nicholas Jones, Emma Neumann, Vicky Kanellouplos, Felicity Eustace, Enrique Toches, Andrew Tetzlaff, Tony Garifalakis, Stephen Armstrong and others. #FrenchConnectionsAPW
7.30 am, in pursuit of rainbows. And thinking space. “It’s the pleasure of watching the #beach, which means watching the #sky and the #sea, and if you go at a different time, it can be different light and weather, it can be white or it can be flat. I love it when it’s almost flat. It's so pure that it’s like the beginning of the world.” — Agnès Varda #Lottie #thesea #onthebeach #dogsofinstagram #takethreeforthesea
Lottie’s heard these stories before. (Thank-you @raisingcatpeople and Birdie for coming along to see our museum specimens. ‘At length’, added Lottie. 🐕) With a thumping of tails and a scurrying of paws, our exhibition, ‘Through a glass eye’, at the Australian Print Workshop, has reached the halfway mark. But there's still plenty of time to catch our series of awkward self portraits, and find yourself eye to eye before our stuffed and stilted specimens. ‘Through a glass eye’ Until Saturday 29th of June, 2019 Australian Print Workshop 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy Tuesday to Saturday 10 am – 5 pm You can find editions of each ‘Through a glass eye’ print available through the APW's online store. #etching #lithograph #printmaking #museumspecimen #FrenchConnectionsAPW
Our little #RSPCA foster ‘cotton tail’ cat, Little-Lee (Shelter ID No. 912530), is doing really well post surgery, and he even waggles his little downy tail. It is wonderful to see how his tail now moves in accordance with his body where before it would hang like a dead weight. At this rate, this little sweetheart will be ready for adoption (from the RSPCA East Burwood shelter, Victoria) in no time at all. Awaiting only a powder puff at the tail and the promise of a forever home. Image credit: Noel Hopking, ‘Where did I put that powder puff?’ #foster #cottontail #fostercare #RSPCAfoster #catsofinstagram
Our little #RSPCA foster cat, Little-Lee (Shelter ID No. 912530), has had his big operation and he is ready to come back home with us for his recovery. He is doing really well, and they were able to amputate the tail further from the base than anticipated, which will help minimise the risk of post-surgical infection. His little shaved rear end is quite confronting, at first glance, but we are grateful to be given the chance to look after him and to help him clear the next hurdle to finding his forever home. Tonight, we will monitor him to make sure he doesn’t loosen any stitches. Thank-you for all you messages and support. Image credit: Tile with two rabbits, two snakes and a tortoise. Illustration for Zakariya al-Qazwini’s book, ‘Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing’ (13th century). Earthenware, molded and underglaze-painted decoration. Iran, 19th century. In the collection of the Louvre, Richelieu wing, Department of Islamic Art, room 1. #RSPCA #RSPCAvic #fostercare #gingertom #catsofinstagram
Tails, ready! Feathers, glossed! Opening tonight! For Phil Edwards’ (@phil9076) Museum of Aphorisms and Platitudes, we created a real but not real 24-page catalogue of our ‘Through a glass eye’ suite of prints created with Australian Print Workshop as part of French Connections. ‘Keep a beady eye on’ is a souvenir for a collection to file under Eye. Gallery five, c3 Contemporary Art Space (@c3artspace) The Abbotsford Convent (@abbotsfordconvent), Abbotsford Wednesday 19th of June – Sunday 14th of July, 2019 👁 (An edition of 10, we have two remaining copies of this catalogue available through our online store. Please head to http://gracialouise.com to see more.) #eye #museum #catalogue #collection #FrenchConnectionsAPW #AphorismsandPlatitudes
Green and pink. You and me. Cat and dog. Home and smiling, ear to ear. A beautiful painting by @jim.pavlidis. (Dear Jim, thank-you. You’ve captured everything about us and our painted nest. Such a delight to see this photo of your painting, out of the blue. Or should that be out of the green and pink? 💕🌱) #home #family #portrait #youandme #JimPavlidis
Today, our little #RSPCA foster cat, Little-Lee (Shelter ID No. 912530) has his big operation. His tail is being amputated at the base, and if all goes well, we will be picking him up tomorrow for his recovery. As he drags and flings and chomps his favourite toys around the lounge room floor, things look promising. There are risks with any surgery, but we’re feeling positive. (Good luck, little champ. You’re another step closer to finding your forever home. 💛) #RSPCA #RSPCAvic #fostercare #gingertom #catsofinstagram
Swim it away, you. Stretch it away, me. Run it away, Lottie. #reboot #Monday #thisiswinter #splishsplash #dogsofinstagram #cobwebbanishment
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  • Gracia & Louise
    One of the nicest parts about having an exhibition a short distance from home is being able to walk down with Lotti… https://t.co/E0sWWCDP5n
    about 7 hours ago
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