RESTORING CORRIDORS
Restoring corridors is a multi-panelled, double-sided artists’ book that when hung on the gallery wall makes an interchangeable, reversible 100cm x 300cm slice of biodiversity in flux.
BILATERAL SYMMETRY
Bilateral Symmetry will be released at this year’s tenth Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV International (Thursday 23rd of May – Sunday 26th of May, 2024).
LOOKING FOR GREEN, REMAINING HOPEFUL
The challenge we set: to use what we had to make something especially for World Book Night 2024’s theme, In praise of birds.
Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, City Campus at Bower Ashton, Bristol, UK
THE REMAKING OF THINGS
What if you could grow a forest from a collection. What if you could weave a floor to ceiling landscape from E. G. Adamson’s Snow coral (1930s–1940s) and Louisa Anne Meredith’s Study for gum-flowers and ‘love’ (c. 1860). Slide Tom Roberts’s She-oak and sunlight (1889) alongside Tom Humphrey’s Summer walk (c. 1888), and glimpse Grace Cossington-Smith’s Bottlebrushes (1935) through the foliage.
BRACKETED BY LIGHT
To those who require foraging resources and roosting sites.
To the ingenious ecological kindness of the pollinators and seed dispersers.
The echolocators catching insects on the wing. The leaf-consuming fuel-reducers.
The intricate connection of all things.
SOMETHING REVERBERATED
There were once trees growing under the roads. There are still creeks flowing beneath the directional pathways we’ve imposed.
An artists’ book to take you within the forest, created especially for Biosphere.
Including
Biosphere — a sense of belonging catalogue essays by Felicity Spear and Penelope Gebhardt, 2021–2022
WITH WINGS OUTSTRETCHED AND QUIVERING
Empty the room. View it from the outside in. Brick by brick. Twig by twig. At the beginning: what is there?
An artists’ book featuring variations of the original Bowerbird collages we created especially for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower.
DIP AND BOB
Dive into a 620cm long digital collage with an original watercolour cover, created especially for the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2021.
A HEMLINE OF SKY, FOREST, AND WATER THROUGH SMOKE
A Hemline of Sky Through Smoke
A Hemline of Forest Through Smoke
A Hemline of Water Through Smoke
KEEP A BEADY EYE ON
For the Museum of Aphorisms and Platitudes, we created a real but not real 24-page catalogue of Through a glass eye.
PAW PAD PATH
Paw Pad Path was selected for the 2018 Libris Awards: Australian Artists’ Book Prize exhibition at Artspace Mackay. Paw Pad Path was acquired by Artspace Mackay.
A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2017
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
PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, 2017
From Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) to Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), a digital edition of the unique state artists’ book Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds (2016).
A PAIR OF SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2017
Your nimble tread
Your untroubled verse
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
This artists’ book, The Company You Keep, was released into the wild at the 2016 Melbourne Art Book Fair at the National Gallery of Victoria. In addition, this artists’ book of Yellow-headed parrots and Laughing owls was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria.
PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS
Whether knee-deep in carpet weave or native grass clump, this naturalist's companion is misleading, but its dedication, sincere. Created especially for and exhibited in its entirety as part of Birds: Flight paths in Australian Art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Including
Leah Muddle, True or False? Milly Sleeping: Quick Interview with Gracia Haby of Gracia & Louise, 2017
CLOSER TO NATURAL
In continuation of a theme explored for Animal Instinct (2016), thirteen costumed Salvaged Relatives on cartes de visite have been paired with drawings of the same collage element in a new and arguably more natural setting.
Including
Printing the Page, State Library Victoria (2016)
BECAUSE I LIKE YOU
Because I Like You is based on the concept of a love letter to ten mammals.
Including
Contemporary Paper: Celebrating a Year of Print (2016)
Wrap Up (2015)
A DECK OF SALVAGED RELATIVES
In a borrowed costume from Pulcinella, deigned by Giorgio de Chirico, 1932, with a Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) looking to form a charm and others.
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2014–2015
Salvaged Relatives, edition I
Salvaged Relatives, edition II
Salvaged Relatives, edition III