COMMISSIONS, 2024
Melbourne City of Literature Office: Walking the City of Literature map
Fjord Review: POESIS collage
Competing choreographies: 10 years of the Keir Choreographic Award collage for publication
Including
From Dreamweaver, presented as part of Art Enterprise Workshop for the School of Art, RMIT University, 2024
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.
Including
An extract from Kelly Fliedner's A message, a Point of Connection, a Gesture to Where We Are, from Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s National Works on Paper 2024 catalogue
BILATERAL SYMMETRY
Bilateral Symmetry, released into the wild at the tenth Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2024.
Including
Gloriously Wild: How artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison opened a tiny wildlife shelter in their backyard, Brita Frost, The Lost Island, 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
Including
Q & A for RMIT University’s School of Art students Rain Richardson, Sherin Prawira, and Alannah Borg, 2024
GENESIS BAROQUE, 2022–2024
Genesis Baroque’s 2024 season
Genesis Baroque’s 2023 season
Genesis Baroque’s 2022 production of George Frideric Handel’s Acis & Galatea
FOUR PRINT PROJECTS, 2022–2024
Chatter, rattle, Noddy turns overhead, for the 2024 RMIT Print Exchange Folio
Pollinators, Remy & Pip, for the Australian Print Workshop’s 40x40 survey exhibition
Where we can encounter each other, for the 2023 RMIT Print Exchange Folio
By hoot and Glide, for Whereabouts: A Print Exchange Folio for Rona Green, Art Gallery of Ballarat
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.
FOUR ZINES, 2023–2024
Turn a bird
Brilliant Gathering
Hold
Recall
Including,
Bird’s Eye View: Perspectives on the Art and Science of Ornithology, presented as part of Melbourne Rare Book Week, Melbourne Museum, 2024
MELBOURNE NOW: THE REMAKING OF THINGS
A green pocket of restored eucalyptus forest habitat collaged with pieces from the collection of the NGV.
Including
”They look straight through your soul”: The art of raising bats, Melissa Cunningham, The Sunday Age, 2023
TWO PROJECTS, 2023
World Book Night 2023 — We Remember
Leadbeater’s possum commission
MELBOURNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, 2020–2023
Poems & Romances CD for Melbourne Chamber Orchestra, 2023
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra’s 2021 season
THE BIG ISSUE, 2020–2022
Have rocket, will travel
Reel to Real
Including
Q & A for RMIT University School of Art student Mya Cook, 2022
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.
SIX ZINES, 2021–2022
Rakali Grotto
Roosting on a concealed tree branch
Tiny but huge
Went out for a walk
Bats aren’t scary
Something reverberated
MORNINGTON PENINSULA REGIONAL GALLERY MEMORY GAME
We were commissioned to create a Memory Game for Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery comprised of artworks from our three artists’ books Because I Like You (2016), Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds (2016), and A Flight of Twelve Southern Hemisphere Birds (2013).
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
Inspired by the Collection, as part of World of the Book, Dome Galleries, State Library Victoria, 2024–2025
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.
Including
Inspired by the Collection, as part of World of the Book, Dome Galleries, State Library Victoria, 2024–2025
IN LOCKDOWN PROJECTS, 2021
Melbourne City of Literature Office: Hooded plover, Wildlife Postcards
Melbourne City of Literature Office: writers in residence, one-day, social media takeover
The Overwintering Project: With a slow and deliberate wing beat
Including
Q & A for RMIT University School of Art student Kasandra Hendy, 2022
BOWER
We were commissioned to create artwork for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower, “a project inspired by bowerbirds’ obsessive collecting habits, and their ability to build magical architecture out of fragments”.
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.