SALVAGED RELATIVES, BOXED

Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Salvaged Relatives, boxed
May, 2015
Three digital print zines within a slipcase
Edition of 30

A 15cm X 10.5cm X 1.5cm grey card slipcase with hand-punched cosmos, housing a red, yellow, and blue edition of Salvaged Relatives.

Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition

One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria's inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015.

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Preparations and Words

In the mood for a “naively narcissistic folktale” (Melbourne Cinémathèque). In the mood for Dušan Makavejev’s ‘Innocence Unprotected’ (1968). In the mood for a cobbling together of footage, for what Makavejev describes as “a new production of a good old film”. Collage me an acrobat in Belgrade. Pull away. swing. Rebuild. Sour cherry strudel me a strongman, perhaps we’ll find the muscle to stay for ‘Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator’ and ‘Man is Not a Bird’.
#collage
#thisissummer
#thisiswednesday
#DušanMakavejev
#MelbourneCinémathèque

It brings us pleasure to deliver a heap of tulips and an Emperor penguin, to those of you who can’t dive in to ‘Ripples in the Open’ in person. To your right, you’ll note a Long-nosed potoroo, flick, flick, flickering, perhaps opening the door to a different way of knowing. Up high, to your left, a Panthera leo, not unlike poet Ruth Padel’s big cat drinking at a forest pool, one “Slash of light, then gone”. And you can see more of this wilderness (thanks to a raft of photographs courtesy of ArtSpace, Realm, @artsinmaroondah) here: http://gracialouise.com/ripples-in-the-open 🦜
Our exhibition runs until the 27th of January, 2019, which suddenly feels rather close. What a fast-feeling year this is proving.
#nature
#collage
#umwelt
#landscape
#artsinmaroondah
#RipplesintheOpen

In the library at Realm, five of our artists’ books, waiting to be read. To coincide with ‘Ripples in the Open’ (ArtSpace, Realm), an edition of ‘I think all the world is falling’, ‘No longer six feet under’, ‘Disrupted and rumpled’, ‘Dim wood, spark bright’, and ‘A warmed pebble in my hand’. (Photographs courtesy of ArtSpace Realm. Thank-you @artsinmaroondah.)
🦜
We’ll be holding a zine workshop at Realm on the 17th of January, 2019. Find out more: http://gracialouise.com/blog/2018/11/6/ripples-in-the-open-zine-making-workshop

#collage
#concertina
#inthelibrary
#artistsbooks
#RipplesintheOpen

I have been going to the same dentist since I was two, only now, instead of taking a toy mouse to squeeze during my checkups, I take along a zine of rodents for Dr Glynn. (Pictured here, inhabitants from ‘Your gelatine silver print, in the shape of the full moon’ (2018), and a cat in the ‘no dogs allowed’ park. You can pick up a copy of this zine at https://gracialouise.bigcartel.com, should you need a treat for your dentist or a pick me up after you’ve had a filling. 🦷)
#zine
#netsuke
#notmycat
#collection
#thisismonday
#Rijksmuseum

And by 5pm, nine linen-covered Solander boxes, pressed and drying. Thank-you @firestationprintstudio workshop attendees for a wonderful day. Happy bookbinding!
#workshop
#bookbinding
#Solanderbox
#thisissunday
#FirestationPrintStudio

Halfway through the workshop
is a box
and hardcover started
near to where i sit.
there isn't any
other spot
quite like
it.
We’re not at the start,
we’re not at the end;
so this is the
where
I always
stop.
🕰
Glue drying. Lunch break. At Firestation Print Studio on a Sunday. With apologies to A.A. Milne (‘Halfway down’).
#halfway
#workshop
#bookbinding
#thisissunday
#Solanderbox
#FirestationPrintStudio

On the gallery wall, ‘Encrusted in a rock’. An edition of 20, our contribution to the Australian Print Workshop’s biennial fundraiser, IMPRESSIONS 2018. The exhibition runs until the 16th of February, 2019. And 2019, she’s just around the corner. These days of late, a bright and varied juggle (of brochures, and posters created and stuck up about campus (@rmit_art)), but still there is time to meet a cat named Rick, and tap your feet to a song about not Lola but Rona (@ronagreenart) “with her tattooed pets and sharpie hair”. 🐀
#RMITart
#fundraiser
#blackswan
#printmaking
#Impressions
#Impressions2018
#AustralianPrintWorkshop

‘A Jelly-Fish’ (1909)
Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

Visible, invisible,
A fluctuating charm,
An amber-colored amethyst
Inhabits it; your arm
Approaches, and
It opens and
It closes;
You have meant
To catch it,
And it shrivels;
You abandon
Your intent—
It opens, and it
Closes and you
Reach for it—
The blue
Surrounding it
Grows cloudy, and
It floats away
From you.
🥽
Earlier, on the beach, a thousand jellyfish.
#Lottie
#jellyfish
#onthebeach
#thisissummer
#dogsofinstagram

Summer is four rugs washed and hanging out to dry; an early dash to Officeworks to photocopy instruction sheets for a bookbinding workshop; and collecting additional branches for Timmy’s aviary to create a little series of hops for him now that he can no longer fly so well. Summer is finding the shade; procuring a sweet treat; and hot before 9am.
#Lottie
#inthepark
#summertime
#thisissummer
#dogsofinstagram

A network of lines that cross each other to form a series of squares or rectangles. On the way home from barre and on #theworkingtable. (Louise is conducting a ‘Make a Solander Box in a Day’ workshop this Sunday at Firestation Print Studio (@fpsfirestationprintstudio), in Armadale. The session is fully booked, but you can register your interest for other bookbinding workshops with Firestation Print Studio.
#grid
#blue
#collage
#workshop
#bookbinding
#Solanderbox
#FirestationPrintStudio

Improvise. Feel. Be. Draw a line of notes with your body as it feels for the bright notes of sound hovering in the air. Add another. And another. Loop them together. Wriggly lines, loose and melodic lines, angular, jaunty lines. Embody sound. You. Ordinary, particular, brilliant, you. Add your notes to the fantasia. Be the fantasia. Be spry, reflective, receptive.

Coming soon on Fjord Review (@fjordreview).
’Soliloquy’

Thursday 22nd November
Elisabeth Murdoch Hall
Presented by Melbourne Recital Centre (@melbrecital)

Artists
Genevieve Lacey: recorder/concept
Gideon Obarzanek: director
Stephanie Lake; dance/movement director (@stephlake)
Niklas Pajanti: light
Harriet Oxley: costume
Gene Hedley: production manager
Zela Papageorgiou: assistant producer/volunteer co-ordinator
Michaela Coventry: producer

with 39 Volunteer participants

Program
Georg Philipp Telemann
Twelve Fantasias for solo flute without brass, TWV 40:2–13
Image credit: Pia Johnson (@piajohnsonphotography)
#dance
#Telemann
#FjordReview
#GenevieveLacey
#TwelveFantasias

Based in Melbourne, we work from home. And more often than not, we collaborate with each other. We rather fell into #collaboration, many years ago now, and it is one based on harmony. To date, we have made 99 artists’ book titles and 127 zine titles.

We decided early on in our collaboration, through an organic process, not to polish the same skills. We naturally lent towards different things and now bring those different things together to make one work not possible without the other. Working this way, a third work is made that belongs to us both. 🦡

The two of us have been fans of the #book for a long time now, and it is perhaps because no work is ever as you’d imagined or saw in your mind’s eye, that we keep working with books. Every step, every part of the process, every learning curve, holds us entranced. We love the challenge artists’ books present, the possibilities and #history they hold, and the intimacy they can awaken in the #reader. The flexible medium of the book holds us in its palm rather than us holding the book in our own palms. In the beginning, the medium of the artists' book seemed, to us, to be free of rules and regulations. It also presented many new things to consider, from page layout and sequence to typographical decisions, and such things we tossed in the air and arranged upon their landing. Working together has meant we were able to figure out the particulars through trial and error, and groundwork.
🦘
You can see an #exhibition of our artists’ books at Artspace Mackay until the 3rd of February, 2019. ‘Focus on the Collection: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison’

Foyer Gallery, #ArtspaceMackay, Civic Centre Precinct, Gordon Street, Mackay, Queensland

The exhibition is drawn from the Mackay Regional Council collection, and it includes
‘Find your place’, 2007
‘Small collection’, 2008
‘Postcards from... a key to make your own world visible’, 2009
‘A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels’, 2009
‘Tumble & fall’, 2009
‘This evening, however, I am thinking of things past’, 2009
‘Closer to natural’, 2016
‘Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds’, 2016
and ‘Paw Pad Path’, 2018
@artspacemackay
#artistsbooks
#fromthecollection

Lost and Found Dispatch
🐾
Soft like a peach, the beautiful and friendly Siamese cat we found and took to the Port Phillip Animal Hospital has been reclaimed by their owners. We don’t know anything else about what happened, but we do know that Leonard is pleased he is the only Siamese in our castle. (Image credit: Scottish actress Elizabeth Sellars with her pet Siamese cat at her home in Bayswater, London, 1952; photographed by John Pratt.)
#cats
#notmycat
#siamesecat
#ElizabethSellars
#ingloriousblackandwhite

As part of our exhibition Ripples in the Open we’re conducting a #zine making workshop at ArtSpace.

Collage across the spread of your very own stitched zine. Bring along any printed and photocopied snippets, images, and text collected from your surroundings, and in the workshop you will cut and glue them into place to create your own artwork.
In addition, you will learn to fold and stitch a simple zine structure. Paper, glue, thread, and equipment are all provided, however please bring along anything you’d like to include in your collage be they magazine cuttings, photocopies of things that interest you, original drawings. The world is your oyster; the paper is your universe!

Saturday 17th of January
2 to 4pm
Ages 12+
Cost $5

Bookings essential:
www.trybooking.com/ZBZM

Meet us at ArtSpace at Realm
Ringwood Town Square
179 Maroondah Highway
Ringwood
03 9298 4553

#zines
#workshop
#inmyhand
#inmypocket
#artsinmaroondah
#RipplesintheOpen

Glorious day out, to be working indoors. But there was the morning, the glorious morning. We frolicked. We gamboled. We woofed. And we procured treats on the way home to sweeten the load.
#blue
#earlier
#blueskyday
#thisissummer
#dogsofinstagram

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