A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2009
1/ Gracia Haby
Primary transport for the dispelling of fallacious beliefs
2009
Six page artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil across the pages of a small book of Some Ship Models in the Museum of Applied Science of Victoria (Brown, Prior Anderson Pty. Ltd., Melbourne)
Two staples hold together this small collage book originally from the Museum of Applied Science of Victoria (formally known as the Industrial and Technological Museum, founded in 1870). The title is drawn from point C listed inside the cover, which states: This is an important field of public instruction. By clearly labelled and realistic models it is hoped to inculcate an appreciation of hygiene and dental health, dietetics and first aid treatments, and to illustrate the best methods of combating infection, reducing accidents and dispelling fallacious beliefs.
Shipping models photographed include, H.M. Bark ‘Endeavour’; ‘Thermopylæ’ Clipper Ship; ‘Nyora’ Screw Tug and Salvage Steamer; P.S. ‘Weeroona’; and ‘Mary’ Pearling Lugger (c. 1939). This artists’ book was made for and exhibited as part of A key to help make your own world visible (2009).
2/ Gracia Haby
Blinking in the light (Grand Saint Bernard et son hospice)
2009
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil across the pages of Grand Saint Bernard et son hospice (Creátion et photos Darbellay)
Prepare to comb the landscape in Switzerland in this artists’ book made especially for A key to help make your own world visible (2009).
3/ Gracia Haby
More than I was led to believe (Amsterdam)
2009
16 page artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil across the pages of Amsterdam
Sixteen blue sky landscapes of Amsterdam, it begins with a Pampas deer in pursuit at the Palais Nieuwe Kerk, an Addax at the Centraal Station, and a leaping tiger at the Rijks Museum. Other animals include a Dromedary, a Snow leopard, a precariously placed African ass in Reguliersgracht, an inquisitive Golden hamster, several birds of varied plumage, and a Giant anteater, the largest of its family, in Prinzengracht. It was exhibited as part of A key to help make your own world visible (2009).
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RELATED LINKS,
ADVICE FOR THOSE CURIOUS, EXHIBITION TEXT FOR A KEY TO HELP MAKE YOUR OWN WORLD VISIBLE
THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK, MATERIALITY, NUMBER 1: BOOK, PINKNANTUCKET PRESS, 2012
INSTALLING AT CRAFT VICTORIA (CLOG: CRAFT VICTORIA'S BLOG, 2009)
AT EVERY TURN (CLOG: CRAFT VICTORIA'S BLOG, 2009)
4/ Gracia Haby
Spending the night (Hotel Stenton, Philadelphia)
2009
12 page artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil across the pages of a small booklet for the European Plan at the Hotel Stenton on Broad and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, PA
The Hotel Stenton no longer stands, but history tells us that the Hotel Stenton “offered lodging for $2 and upward per day on the European plan and $4 and upward per day on the American Plan. The European Plan usually covered the cost of the room whereas the American plan covered the cost of both the room and meals at the hotel” (Staying in Philadelphia: The Hotel Stenton and Hotel Walton, The Philly History Blog).
It, too, was exhibited as part of A key to help make your own world visible (2009).
5/ Gracia Haby
Exhausting all possible avenues (Abbay d'Aulne, Bruxelles)
2009
Ten page artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil across the pages of a small red-covered book of cartes vues détachables of Abbay d’ Aulne, Bruxelles (Ern. Thill, lve, Simonis, 20–22, Bruxelles)
In the ruins, papered characters try to blend, some more successfully than others, in this artists’ book exhibited as part of A key to help make your own world visible (2009), and now in the collection of the State Library of NSW.
