LOOKING FOR GREEN, PINK, YELLOW AND BLUE
We are delighted to be a green piece of Looking for green, pink, yellow and blue.
Thursday 2nd of July – Tuesday 1st of September 2026
Bower Ashton Library
UWE Bristol, City Campus, Bower Ashton, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol BS3 2JT
The exhibition is open to the public Monday – Friday, 9am-5pm. No booking needed.
An exhibition of works observing flora, woodlands, wildlife, skies, marshes, and islands — artists’ books, printed poetry and ephemera. Whether you can be out in the landscape and the sun is shining near you, or you just need to see something lovely from indoors, we have a display of inspirational works by artists, writers and poets that can hopefully lift your spirits or give better insights into the layers and textures of the world surrounding us. From daily, observational pencil studies of individual flowers, to poetic works on landscape, to collaging green spaces into being or composing image, text and sound in relation to place, there are many ways we can find to enter these spaces.
Artists and writers in this exhibition include:
Andrew Norris, Astra Papachristodoulou, Catherine Cronin, Cathey Webb, Chrystal Cherniwchan, Colin Sackett, Csilla Bíro, Elizabeth Willow, Gordon Yapp, George Gibson, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Graeme Hobbs, Greg Thomas | Oo Press, Ioulia Akhmadeeva, Jane Hyslop, Jean McEwan, Jeff Rathermel, Julie Johnstone, Kurt Johannessen, Laura Crehuet Berman & Owen Bullock, Laurie Clark, Leonard McDermid, Lucy May Schofield, Marian Kilpatrick, Nancy Campbell, Nancy Gaffield & The Drift, Pirrip Press, Roelof Bakker, Sarah Nicholls, Stanley Miller, Stevie Ronnie & Tessa Bunney, Tracey Bush.
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Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison’s Looking for green, remaining hopeful, 2024, provided the inspiration and title for this exhibition: “We search the map for big green shapes to head towards. Sometimes these irregular shapes turn out to be less green upon arrival. Sometimes they are golf courses and cultivated lawns. Sometimes they get smaller, the closer we get.
In finding the reality of the mapped green shape to be ill-fitting, we cut the scenario anew and make a more befitting visual effect upon the green screen. This series of ten analogue postcard collages, with a green area like that on a map, mirrors our own longing for green spaces to head towards, and a filmic green screen on which a potential environment more suited for a motley assortment of birds could sprout.” Read more here.
Alongside making art, Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison are “Tiny but Wild, a licensed DEECA wildlife shelter based, like our studio, in our home in North Fitzroy, Melbourne / Naarm.” Find out more and donate if you wish, here.
Book Arts
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29th of June, 2026
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Looking for green, remaining hopeful
2024
9 page concertina, artists’ book, Indigo Digital CMYK on 160gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated, with cover, Indigo Digital CMYK on 300gsm ecoStar + 100% Recycled Uncoated
Printed by Bambra
Bound by Louise Jennison
Edition of 75
