THREE COMMISSIONS, 2015–2017
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Beneath my suit, I am...
2015
Six-page concertina artists’ book, featuring four individual collages on cartes de visite, with pencil and paint additions collage and pencil
A unique state artists’ book featuring a customised French cuff
Created especially for Lord Coconut’s exhibition Art of the Cuff
As part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2015
Wednesday 16th of September – Saturday 3rd of October, 2015
Lord Coconut, Level 4 Carlow House, 289 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Cover. Beneath a curtain made from Nijinsky’s tunic from The blue god, designed by Léon Bakst, c 1912, with a discarded hat from Sha Sharian from Schéhérazade and a Papuan forest-wallaby (Dorcopsulus macleayi)
1. In the borrowed costume for the Prince from Sadko, designed by Natalia Goncharova, c 1916, with a Scarlet macaw (Ara macao)
2. With the borrowed costume for a Syrian woman from Cléopâtre for a necktie, designed by Léon Bakst, c 1909–30s, with a Black-capped lory (Lorius lory)
3. In the borrowed costume for the Buffoon from Chout, after Mikhail Larionov, c 1921, with a Diamond dove (Geopelia cuneata)
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We conducted a free bookbinding workshop at RMIT University Library, as part of RMIT Library's free 700s Arts Festival.
How to Bind a Concertina Book: Artists' books workshop with Gracia and Louise
RMIT University Library (city campus)
Thursday the 27th of August, 2015
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
A Souvenir of Paris
2017
Commissioned artists' book for a private collection
Incorporating such source material as French seed packets and a bushy-tailed Hormiguero from an 1852 edition derived from Buffon’s Historie Naturalle, A Souvenir of Paris is a memory bound into a commissioned artists' book for a private collection,
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3/ Louise Jennison
Artwork for Meow: A Genetic Concert for Cats
2017
Commissioned watercolours for cover illustration
From the Jardin des Plantes to chromosomes, genes, and alleles, Louise had the pleasure of working on the cover illustration for Kerry J. Fowler’s book, Meow: A Genetic Concert for Cats, which looks at the DNA responsible for the diversity and appearance of cat breeds.
