“LET’S GO ABOUT THIS SLOWLY.”

WORKS
Written by Gracia Haby
 

Recently landed: “Let’s go about this slowly”

With the Melbourne Art Book Fair around the corner, there is time to cast the mind back to last weekend’s opening of Slow Read at Town Hall Gallery, Hawthorn Arts Centre, and back further still to the installation process.

Continuing reading on Marginalia.

 
 
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14th of May, 2026

 
 

Earlier, installing Restoring corridors, piece by piece, upon the wall at the Town Hall Gallery, overseen by a centrally placed Brush-tailed rock-wallaby (southern population) (Petrogale penicillate), a family of Eastern barred bandicoots (mainland population) (Perameles gunnii); and an inspection of Pookila (New Holland mouse) (Pseudomys novaehollandiae), ever the dream.

 
 
Gracia Haby

I have been collaborating with Louise Jennison since 1999, making artists’ books, collages, large-scale installations, prints, drawings, zines, and various tales. Besotted still, it appears, with paper for its adaptable, concealable, revealing nature, we use an armoury of play, the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you into our A(rtists’ books) to Z(ines).

As artists and wildlife carers, our practice frequently concerns the natural world, addressing themes of conservation and biodiversity. Our home-based studio is also home to our wildlife shelter, Tiny but Wild.

I collage with words about dance for Fjord Review.

http://gracialouise.com
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