SIX EXHIBITIONS, 2014–2015
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Whirling in the Glowing Dark
2015
Single-colour lithographic offset print with silver metallic paint on Fabriano Artistico 300gsm traditional white hot-press paper, 23cm x 34cm
Printed by Redwood Prints
Edition of 40
Created especially for Rona Green’s Beastarium print exchange folio
Take one scene of circus performers on a break Shootin’ Craps in 1902 (even on a Sunday) and turn it on its head. Add lions, tigers, and leopards rendered momentarily tame by a suffragette in 1874, and silver the cosmos by hand, and you have the ingredients for your very own Beastarium Caravan.
Beastarium: A group exhibition of prints by forty artists exploring the animal in art, curated by Rona Green
JSUE ANDERSON, ROSALIND ATKINS, JAZMINA CININAS, PAUL COMPTON, GRAEME DRENDEL, PHILIP FAULKS, ANGUS FISHER, DIANNE FOGWELL, KEVIN FOLEY, ALEX GAME, ALEX GILLIES, FRANCK GOHIER, JANET GOLDMAN, JACKIE GORRING, GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON, ROBERT HAGUE, GREGORY HARRISON, BILL HAY, KYOKO IMAZU, SHERIDAN JONES, MICHAEL KEMPSON, ALEXI KEYWAN, JENNY KITCHENER, DEBORAH KLEIN, PATRICE MAHONEY, JOHN MARSHALL, AARON MCLOUGHLIN, ROS MEEKER, SHARRON OKINES, JANET PARKER-SMITH, GRAEME PEEBLES, DAVID ROSENGRAVE, JOHN RYRIE, HEATHER SHIMMEN, STEPHEN SPURRIER, KATI THAMO, SCOTT TREVELYAN, DEBORAH WILLIAMS
SATURDAY 19TH OF SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 22ND OF NOVEMBER, 2015
DUBBO REGIONAL GALLERY, WESTERN PLAINS CULTURAL CENTRE, 76 WINGEWARRA STREET, DUBBO, NSW
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2/ Beastly: Varmits, Critters and Strays in Art
2014
Curated by Catherine Benz
Sunday 23rd of November – Sunday 7th December, 2014
Gracia Haby
In the borrowed costume of the Buffoon, designed by Mikhail Larionov, with a Teyu (Teius teyou) upon the shoulder
2014
Collage on ephemera
Louise Jennison
That was the very last pair (I)
2014
Pencil on paper
Louise Jennison
One smooth fated egg (3rd July 1844)
2014
Pencil on paper
Louise Jennison
That was the very last pair (II)
2014
Pencil on paper
Gracia Haby
In the borrowed costume of the White Poodle, designed by André Derain, from the one act ballet La Boutique fantasque c.1919
2014
Collage on ephemera
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Beastly: Varmits, Critters and Strays in Art
ERNEST AARON, BRUCE ARMSTRONG, REIKO AZUMA, MAXIME BANKS, KERRY BLAKE, PRISCILLA BOURNE, MARK BROWN, PENELOPE CAIN, BRANDON CAVALLARI, FIONA DOBRIJEVICH, TOM DOHERTY, JAN FIELDSEND, HAYDEN FOWLER, SEIKO FURUSE, SZILVIA GYORGY, GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON, JENNIFER HARDY, PETER HARDY, GEOFF HARVEY, LOU HUBBARD, ANNA JARVIS, CLAUDE JONES, JUMAADI, MICHAEL KEMPSON, GINA LAW, TARA MARYNOWSKY, DARREN MCDONALD, MILAN MILOJEVIC, MAI NGUYEN-LONG, ANTON PULVIRENTI, ANDREW PURVIS, MARIAN PURVIS, HUGH RAMAGE, CHRIS RAYMOND, BRONWYN RENNEX, LEIGH RIGOZZI, AMANDA SEDDON, PATRICK SHIRVINGTON, RANDALL SINNAMON, ROBYN STACEY, TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS, FLORIA TOSCA, STEPHANIE VALENTIN, DEBORAH WILLIAMS, SANDRA WINKWORTH, BARBARA WULFF, ZUZA ZOCHOWSKI
CURATED BY CATHERINE BENZ
SUNDAY 23RD NOVEMBER – SUNDAY 7TH DECEMBER, 2014
DELMAR GALLERY, TRINITY GRAMMAR SCHOOL, 144 VICTORIA STREET, ASHFIELD, NEW SOUTH WALES
Beastly, installed (image credit: Silversalt)
3/ Good Mail Day
2014
Curated by Lisa Solomon and Susan Schwake
artstream, 10 Second Street, Dover, New Hampshire, USA
November – December, 2014
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
In the borrowed costume of the Buffoon’s Wife, designed by Mikhail Larionov, with a Patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas) as a headdress.
Ruyard Kipling’s “eighth wonder of the world”, Milford Sound, Mitre Peak and Sinbad Gully, for a stage.
In the borrowed costume of King Dodon from Le Coq d’or, with additional Harvest mouse (Micromys minutus).
In the borrowed costume of one of three brigands designed by Léon Bakst, with a Collared pratincole (Glareola pratincola) as a headdress.
In the borrowed costume of the Buffoon’s Wife, designed by Mikhail Larionov, with a Meller’s chameleon (Chamaeleo melleri) and a Common redpoll (Acanthis flammea) embellishment.
2014
Collage on ephemera, and pencil on paper
Five 4” X 6” works made especially for the group exhibition, Good Mail Day, curated by Lisa Solomon and Susan Schwake.
Featuring sixty artists, and all art sized 4” X 6”.
4/ 100 Cats
2014
Supporting Ingrid’s Haven, a non-profit cat shelter in Broadford, Victoria
Off the Kerb, 66B Johnston Street, Collingwood
Friday 5th of September – Friday 19th of September, 2014
Concealment in Calais sought (I), with a Leopard (Panthera pardus); Concealment in Calais sought (II), with a Leopard Cat (Felis bengalenis) and a Jaguar (Panthera onca); and Concealment in Calais sought (III), with a Golden Cat (Felis aurata): three hand-coloured postcard collages created especially for Off the Kerb gallery’s 100 Cats exhibition for charity.
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100 Cats
CHRISTIANA APROZEANU, BAREK, AARON BILLINGS, EDDIE BOTHA, CAMERON BRIDEOAKE, TAYLA BROEKMAN, CARAGH BROOKS, CHARLIE CHAMMA, TRISTAN DAVIES, DEV, DIRTY FEMINIST, ERO, DAMIEN VAN EWIJK, KIRSTY FLETCHER, ERIN GREER, SUZANNAH GRIFFITH, LIZ GRIDLEY, JACQUELINE GWYNNE, HA-HA, GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON, EMMA HAMPTON, I & THE OTHERS, CHANTELLE KEY, MINELA KRUPIC, DOMINIK KRUPINSKI, SALLY LAND, CAROLINE LEJEUNE, TRISH LEONE, NAREEDA LEWERS, LOBSTER JUICE, LILLY LOWREY, SHAWN LU, MATTO LUCAS, MARCOMATIC, RYAN MCGENNISKEN, LORENA MONSALVES, MULGA, REBECCA NANFRO, OOKNOW, DAVID LEE PEREIRA, BASAK SAVCIGIL, KAT SCARLET, LIAM SNOOTLE, SIAN SONG, MARTA TESORO, THEPEATREECOLLECTIVE, THIRTY60, TONY TRAN, LUKA VA, MITCH VANE, SKYE WILLIAMS, LAUNA WINSHIP, EMILY WRIGHT
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5/ PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books
2014
Curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis
Post Office Gallery, Federation University Australia, Corner Sturt & Lydiard Street, Ballarat, Victoria
Wednesday 16th of July – Saturday 9th of August, 2014
Our artists’ book As inclination directs (2013) and a selection of our recent zines — A Catalogue of Bodies (Second Edition) (2014), As if from the clouds, restless (2014), Misreadings (2014), Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) who visited my garden one summer’s day (2014), Twelve months, an explorer (2014), 38.1500° S, 144.3500° E (2013), A Postcard as Measuring Device (2013), Beneath the screen of closed eyelids (Port Said) (2013), Genova to Johannesburg (Johannesburg to Genova) (2013), and Lunch (2013) — on display as part of the exhibition PAGE.PRINT.POST at the Post Office Gallery.
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PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 years of Artists Books curated by Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis, offers a rare insight and overview of the development, range and ambition of the Artists Book over half a century. Featuring books, postal art and other ‘alternative spaces’ from the 1960s to the 1980s, the exhibition presents a range of significant works from a host of private and public collections in Australia and the UK.
The exhibition will include a large selection of books by Australian artists, together with remarkable and rare publications by pioneers Ed Ruscha and Dieter Rot, members of Fluxus and the Conceptual art movement, and feminists May Stevens, Nan Becker and Nancy Holt.
A broad range of Artists Books and postal art by contemporary artists, including Nicholas Jones, Deanna Hitti, Angela Cavalieri, Gracia and Louise, Deborah Klein, David Dellafiora, Sarah Bodman and Guy Begbie, will also be presented.
Debbie Hill and Geoff Wallis
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1, 2, 3... 4 OF 100 CATS, PLUS A RING IN
POLISHING ONE'S WHISKERS
SHE QUICKENED HER PACE
6/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)
and
Plum-headed finch (Neochmia modesta) in disguise
2014
Wood engraving and collage, 21cm x 28cm
A pair of works created especially for Jill Sampson’s Bimblebox 153 Birds
Take I and take II of our contribution to the Brimblebox 153 Birds project. When our work was damaged in transit, we thought, rather than remaking the replacement work exactly the same, we'd have a little fun instead. So here you have our first somewhat ill-fated version and our second take.
The Bimblebox Art Project was begun in 2012 by artist Jill Sampson who continues as co-ordinator. Its aim is to creatively engage with and to document the Bimblebox Nature Refuge which is under threat from coal mining. Art/science/nature camps, exhibitions, writing, music and academic research have been some of the outcomes of this project.
The Bimblebox Nature Refuge is an 8,000 hectare area of diverse woodland in the desert uplands region of central western Queensland. Bimblebox is protected by a Nature Refuge Agreement with the Queensland State Government but unfortunately nature refuges are not protected from mining. Waratah Coal plan thermal coal mines which would develop both open cut and underground long wall mining on the Bimblebox Nature Refuge.
Understanding the multiple proposed mining developments for the Galilee Basin has brought a realisation of the greater threat to life on Earth from generated carbon emissions if the Galilee Basin is developed for thermal coal export. As well as an understanding of the extensive and irreversible impact of large scale coal mining on groundwater reserves, agriculture and ecosystems.
The Bimblebox Nature Refuge combines thriving vibrant ecosystems with sustainable beef production. On Bimblebox both conservation and agriculture work together.
Bimblebox Art Project
Curated and coordinated by Jill Sampson, "Bimblebox 153 Birds offers a celebration of the birdlife that inhabits the complex ecosystems of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge... [through an] installation of artist prints, spoken word poetry and prose, plus musicians birdcall interpretations."
Brisbane Writers Festival (2015)
(image credit: Paula Quintela)
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