Seats, please.
Gracia Haby
Find Your Place
2007
22 page concertina artists’ book, full-colour lithographic offset print on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper
Printed by Redwood Prints
Bound by Louise Jennison
Edition of 10, with one artists’ proof
Exhibited as part of A trapdoor in every room (2007), and later as part of the 2008 Libris Awards: Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland. Editions of this book are in the collections of Artspace Mackay, Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem, the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne University Library, Monash University Library, and the National Gallery of Australia (formally as part of the Ergas Collection).
Find your place has since been exhibited as part of Focus on the Collection: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison in the Foyer Gallery of Artspace Mackay (Friday 30th of November, 2018 – Sunday 3rd of February, 2019). The exhibition, drawn from the Mackay Regional Council collection, also included our artists’ books Small collection (2008); Postcards from... a key to make your own world visible (2009); A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels (2009); Tumble & fall (2009); This evening, however, I am thinking of things past (2009); Closer to Natural (2016); Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds(2016); and Paw Pad Path (2018).
Find your place can also be seen in this small State Library Victoria film, Highlights from the Collection of Artists’ Books with Des Cowley, State Library of Victoria's Rare Printed Collections Manager, 2011.
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RELATED LINKS,
ARTSPACE MACKAY
SPOTLIGHT ON: ARTISTS’ BOOKS AND ZINES WITH GRACIA AND LOUISE, 2026
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FIND YOUR PLACE
HELPFUL EXTRAS
PORPOISE, SEA OTTERS AND LONG-NOSED ECHIDNAS
A FEW MORE GLIMPSES THROUGH THE TRAPDOOR
A TRAPDOOR HAS OPENED
IMPS ARE ABOVE THE GREVILLE ST BOOKSTORE
WITH A TRUSTY DONKEY BY MY SIDE
FOR THE BOOKWORMS
SEEN TODAY (TAKE II)
SEEN TODAY (TAKE III)
LATELY
