Zines 2012–2014

Savaged Relatives Pocket Edition , 2014

Savaged Relatives Pocket Edition, 2014

In your dreams, blurred and distinct , 2014

In your dreams, blurred and distinct, 2014

Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus)... , 2014

Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus)..., 2014

Misreadings , 2014

Misreadings, 2014

A Postcard as Measuring Device , 2013

A Postcard as Measuring Device, 2013

The Glimmer of Armour , 2012

The Glimmer of Armour, 2012

It's the dusty hour , 2012

It's the dusty hour, 2012

A beating of wings (I) , 2012

A beating of wings (I), 2012

A constellation of zines , 2014–2015

A constellation of zines, 2014–2015

A Catalogue of Bodies , Second Edition, 2014

A Catalogue of Bodies, Second Edition, 2014

Nuit Noir , 2014

Nuit Noir, 2014

Twelve months, an explorer, 2014

Twelve months, an explorer, 2014

A Catalogue of Bodies , First Edition, 2013

A Catalogue of Bodies, First Edition, 2013

Beneath the screen of closed eyelids , 2013

Beneath the screen of closed eyelids, 2013

Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova) , 2013

Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova), 2013

A beating of wings (II) , 2012

A beating of wings (II), 2012

Conveyed by the Postal System , 2012

Conveyed by the Postal System, 2012

Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar , 2014

Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar, 2014

The Suggestion of Opulence , 2014

The Suggestion of Opulence, 2014

As if from the clouds, restless , 2014

As if from the clouds, restless, 2014

An order of zines , 2013

An order of zines, 2013

38.1500° S, 144.3500° E , 2013

38.1500° S, 144.3500° E, 2013

Lunch, 2013

Collection , 2012

Collection, 2012

Whose lights were now seen glittering , 2012

Whose lights were now seen glittering, 2012

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Zines: A Labour of love, Thereza Rowe, Doodlers Anonymous
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Gracia & Louise

Frida would fly about the house, in pursuit of Lenni or Lottie, leaping upon them, nibbling… https://t.co/9oGabTGGC2
about 8 hours ago

Frida would fly about the house, in pursuit of Lenni or Lottie, leaping upon them, nibbling them, playing with Lenni’s favourite string with Lottie holding the other end of it between her teeth, like some Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene re-enactment on our lounge room floor. She loved to bite the back of Lottie’s legs or gnaw at her tail as Lottie tried to eat or sleep. Lottie and Lenni became Frida’s greatest amusement. Their every reverie interrupted by Frida chewing, licking, pawing at their ears, tails, legs. During her time with us, Frida became a #kitten. She was no longer the quiet little soul with the face of an adult but a playful, chomping, leaping kitten. She transformed under our very noses.

As she grew in confidence, she extended her exploration of the house, including Olive’s domain (pictured here). She still returned to the safety of her space in the bathroom, but more often she chose to be out in the house in the company of us all. She grew in strength and scaled furniture, pulling herself up with ease. She’d find high ground from which to launch an attack on your extremities and her bite was sharp. She’d curl up around your neck and fall asleep. She adapted quickly. As if made from kitten fibres fused with elastic. And eventually as her form evolved and her condition improved, we noticed that she wasn’t limping or sitting off to the side like a roly-poly tumbler. Where previously she would skittle to your feet, wobble as she sought orientation, and flop over like the self-righting toy, now she was using all four limbs equally. Her lower half, which had previously looked wasted away and fragile, was now looking stronger. Frida was ready to return to the shelter. Ready to find her forever home.

Frida is up for #adoption at the #RSPCA East Burwood shelter, and you can read and see more of her journey on #Marginalia:

http://www.graciahaby.com/home/2018/4/23/frida

#home
#RSPCAvic
#fostercare
#catsofinstagram
#blackandwhitecats

As paint dries on the bathroom floor, and brushes on the kitchen sink, the thought occurs to us, our exhibition, ‘A Whisker of Light’, at Maitland Regional Art Gallery closes this Sunday the 29th of April, 2018. These birds of ours, and their companions, will be flying home to us shortly. 🐦
‘I think all the world is falling’
2017
8 page concertina artists' book, inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, with covers mounted on gold-trimmed board, housed in a printed slipcase on 225gsm Buffalo board
Printed by Arten (covers, pages)
Printed by Bambra Press (slipcase)
Edition of 6, with an artists' proof
#birds
#collage
#artistsbook
#AWhiskerofLight
#GraciaLouiseLooped

The animal that arrives in need of your care at the beginning and the animal that leaves your care at the end best sums up what foster care is. At the end of their time with you, for whatever the reason — post surgical care, recovery from injury or mistreatment or neglect, socialisation, timidity, possible allergies, or a mum with a litter of kittens — the animal you head back to the #RSPCA shelter with is utterly different. Their coats might become glossier, their tummies rounder, their eyes brighter, their demeanour more confident (albeit not always in the initial return in a carrier; big challenges remain big challenges in anyone’s books). They are transformed, through time and love and care.

Yes, the little #kitten we dropped off today to the East Burwood shelter was not the little kitten we first met two-months-ago. She is ready to fly. And we hope she does. Fly into the arms of a wonderful person looking for a tiny puss with bandit markings and a cheeky, determined disposition. Should that be you, please note, she is rather keen on popcorn and will steal a piece from your bowl before dragging it to her lair to devour. She has also just started to like chin rubs and pats behind the base of the ear. She trills when her favourite toy is stuck behind the fridge and she requires back up. She is great with (Lottie) dogs and keen to meet other cats.

Frida was a joy to have stay with us, and seeing her thrive is the reason we will continue to foster animals for the RSPCA. With the RSPCA, we’ve helped get her ready for take-off. This is why saying goodbye to her at the shelter is possible. We’ve got her ready for her next chapter, goggles fastened, world ahead. Fly, Frida, fly.

Read more on #Marginalia:
http://www.graciahaby.com/home/2018/4/23/frida
🖤

#RSPCAvic
#fostercare
#goodnews
#adoptdontshop
#catsofinstagram

@rspcavictoria

A weight of albatross can be lifted by forklift, wrapped in plastic, and transported by van. They can be cut by laser, from sheets of acrylic and stainless steel. They can be polished to a mirror-like finish (which we can’t wait to see later in the week). ‘A Weight of Albatross’ are surprisingly adaptable and agreeable to work with. Today, we collected our two stainless steel and fourteen Perspex albatross of varying scale, and it was an exciting part of the process, so much so that Ross on the floor asked us what drove our enthusiasm. Things in planning. Things coming to fruition. Things that require problem-solving. Making things that (hopefully) don’t just add to the noise. Things that make other people think. Things we’ve not tried. Good things to counter the bad, like fostering for the RSPCA. In a nutshell. Succinctly. Early in the foggy morning. As he helped us load up the hire van we thought, this might just work.
#WIP
#process
#Perspex
#onthefactoryfloor
#AWeightofAlbatross

Tripping off the tongue, a handful of films which have featured Mozart’s Requiem: ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ (1999), ‘Amadeus’ (1984), ‘Primal Fear’ (1996), ‘The Mother and the Whore’ (1973), less so, admittedly. To say little of ‘The Big Lebowski’ (1998), ‘Happiness’ (1998), and ‘Elizabeth’ (1998). With cinema so close to the mind, it is no wonder I thought of Andrei Tarkovsky as I left Scots’ Church, my head filled with the sounds of the Australian Chamber Choir, and a million ideas as within my grasp as stars and the luminosity of light through stained glass windows. When Tarkovsky wrote (in ‘Sculpting in Time’ (Austin: University of Texas, 1986), p. 183) of films ability to sculpt for the viewer, and in turn their consciousness, "the opportunity to live through what is happening on the screen as if it were his own life, to take over, as deeply personal and his own, the experience imprinted in time upon the screen, relating his own life to what is being shown”, to me he could also be referring to music and the experience of taking it as one’s own. The passage of time, condensed only to expand, and #reverie the outcome. In one hour, a deliciously condensed and expanded view of all it is to be human that is authentic to my, your, everyone's experience of reality. “The #eternal within the finite, the spiritual within matter, the #limitless given form” (Tarkovsky, p. 37.), I left the performance in an entirely different frame of mind. Thank-you Australian Chamber Choir and Melbourne Baroque Orchestra.

Australian Chamber Choir
Melbourne Baroque Orchestra
Directed by Douglas Lawrence

The Scots’ Church, Melbourne
Sunday 22nd April, 2018
(Image credit: Maurice Sendak’s ‘Mozart in the garden’ (detail). “Art has always been my salvation, and my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, and #Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain. I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.”— #Sendak, 2004)
#time
#thisissunday
#AndreiTarkovsky
#MozartsRequiem
#AustralianChamberChoir
#MelbourneBaroqueOrchestra

In a letter to his father, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote: “Young as I am, I never go to bed without thinking that possibly I may not be alive on the morrow; yet not one of the many persons who know me can say that I am morose or melancholy. For this happy disposition I thank my Creator daily, and wish with all my heart that it were shared by all my fellows.” (Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel, ‘Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words’, Public Domain, accessed via Project Gutenberg.) And it is with this in mind that I head to Scots’ Church to hear Mozart’s Requiem (K626) using instruments of the composer’s time, performed by the Australian Chamber Choir, directed by Douglas Lawrence, sung alongside Palestrina’s ‘Stabat Mater’ on a Sunday afternoon. "Mozart’s basset horns, of which there is no modern equivalent, are heard from the first bar, adding their plaintive voice-like quality to the orchestral timbre. Written during the final weeks of the composer’s life for a patron who wished to remain anonymous, this unfinished work is shrouded in mystery.” — ACC

Lead on, basset horns. We’re not bedridden yet.

#timbre
#Mozart
#Requiem
#thisissunday
#AustralianChamberChoir

“Suddenly from one #celestial body obscuring the light of another to a small bird’s distinctive markings, eclipsed, I feel myself to be a tiny, tiny speck. The path ahead, an unfinished, unfixed, ever changing #puzzle.” Binding the last edition of ‘Disrupted and Rumpled’ for exhibition, on #theworkingtable. It has been shortlisted and will be in the St Kevin’s Collage Art Show (@skc.artshow). The exhibition is on for three days, late May (26–28). And you can see this artists’ book, and it’s four companions, as part of ‘Looped’, @library_vic, until the 31st of August, 2018.
‘Disrupted and rumpled’
2017
8 page concertina artists' book, inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, with covers mounted on gold-trimmed board, housed in a printed slipcase on 225gsm Buffalo board
Printed by Arten (covers, pages)
Printed by Bambra Press (slipcase)
Edition of 6, with an artists' proof
#collage
#artistsbook
#GraciaLouiseLooped

$Tomorrow, our little operatic Fledermaus, Frida-Mouse, heads to the #RSPCA for an X-ray of her (healed) fracture. After the appointment, she will more than likely be processed and popped through to adoption, so we will need to bring with her all of her belongings (dishes, bedding, and favourite toys to nibble and flick). Saying goodbye is going to be hard, but she is heading back to the clinic in glossy-coated health, full of bounce, and upon four agile legs. She looks entirely different to the #kitten we met late February. She is cooked and ready to move to the next stage. Naturally, as soon as she is up for #adoption, we’ll share photos of her. You never know, you, reading this now, you might need a Frida in your life. (Image: 1934, photographer unknown) #cats #pets #home #fostercare #catsofinstagram$

In the quiet silver of morning.
#earlier
#rescuedog
#RunLottieRun
#thisissaturday
#dogsofinstagram

Today’s detour took in ‘Chaos & Order: 120 years of collecting at RMIT’, and you can see more on @drawpaintshare. (Pictured here, Rupert Bunny’s ‘The Shelter [I]’, c. 1913–12, oil on canvas, by the ‘Unsettled Dogs’, 2012 (ed. 1/3; silicone, pigment, resin, hair, and fur), of Sam Jinks, at @rmitgallery.)
@rmit_art
#RMITart
#collection
#inthegallery
#juxtaposition
#ChaosandOrder

Visiting old friends in the library, yesterday afternoon. (‘Looped’, @library_vic, until the 31st of August, 2018.)
‘A warmed pebble in my hand’
2017
8 page concertina artists' book, inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, with covers mounted on gold-trimmed board, housed in a printed slipcase on 225gsm Buffalo board
Printed by Arten (covers, pages)
Printed by Bambra Press (slipcase)
Edition of 6, with an artists' proof
#collage
#eyesclosed
#artistsbook
#inthelibrary
#GraciaLouiseLooped

The fine felines of Fitzroy’s George Street.
#hello
#notmycat
#justpassing
#catsoffitzroy
#catsofinstagram

Overnight, in Dandenong South, our two main albatross are being laser cut into being from a large sheet of stainless steel by “the best programmer” on the floor. As our work for #Realm takes wing, we feel very fortunate to have found the perfect people for the job. They seem as excited about our project as we are, and we are looking forward to the reveal. (Image credit: ‘Habitat with #Laysan albatross chick and marine #debris, Midway Atoll, Spit Island’, photographed by Forest & Kim Starr, 3rd of June 2008, from Plants of Hawaii)
#WIP
#albatross
#stainlesssteel
#artsinmaroondah
#AWeightofAlbatross

Cut, stack, clip, done. Tonight, a workshop at Bunjil Place Gallery. All you need to make a wrap around book, a four-stab stitch Japanese book, and a tiny folded book. Materials and nouse. (Presented as part of @library_vic’s exhibition, ‘Self Made: zines and artist books’.)
#zines
#workshop
#artistsbooks
#bookbinding
#SelfMadeSLV
#theworkingtable

There once was a kitten who could fit in your palm, but that was a long time ago. Our #RSPCA foster kitten, Frida-Mouse, grows stronger, bigger, faster, day by day. She can leap from work surfaces work surface now, and insert worded code into emails. She is nearing the end of her stay with us, and we’re sure this little speedster is going to thrive. (Image credit: Lissák Tivadar, 1945 (detail))
#cats
#kittens
#RSPCAvic
#fostercare
#LissákTivadar

Still-life painting in Glen Iris. (Thank-you for a délicieux lunch, dear @13locked_. It is always a delight to catch up with you and @milly_s_presents. Nous avons passé des moments merveilleux. XO)
#feast
#stilllife
#thankyou
#friendship💕
#thisistuesday

Citrus, Blush, Lime. Labelling our jewel-coloured Perspex offcuts on the factory floor so the right albatross silhouette is cut from the right sheet, and admiring the industrial laser cutter which will conjure our two large stainless steel albatross while we are at it. ‘A Weight of Albatross’, on #Marginalia: http://www.graciahaby.com/home/2018/4/15/a-weight-of-albatross
#WIP
#process
#Perspex
#factoryfloor
#AWeightofAlbatross

To the suburbs in a red fire engine, with a book-burning fireman. Cutting it fine once again (wait for me, Melbourne Cinémathèque). The future is now, said François Truffaut in ‘Fahrenheit 451’ (1966), and I seek refuge with the Book People. I’ll embody Ali Smith’s ‘There but for the’, a strange place book I’m currently reading.
#scifi (sort of)
#ACMI
#JulieChristie
#bannedbooks
#Fahrenheit451
#FrançoisTruffaut

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66th Australian Book Design Awards 2018

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NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2018

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