HERE, THERE, TRACING
1/ Covered with wild hair and shiny feathers, two things of the same appearance and size. Here, there, in the window.
2/ Tracing the Line in Australian Contemporary Printmaking, on the wall.
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Here, there
2016
Friday 4th of November – Tuesday 22nd of November, 2016
Little Window of Opportunity
Port Jackson Press Print Gallery, 84 Smith Street, Collingwood
Twins, collaged and drawn, down to the last stripe on their tail tips or hooked nip on their talons. Covered with wild hair and shiny feathers, two things of the same appearance and size. Placed together they form a twosome, equal in origin. Yoked puzzle pieces of a whole, reconfiguring their second home, erasing the mistakes of the first. In pencil, they correct the lines. This looks right. This looks closer to natural.
Or is it the other way around? Is it the pencilled form who follows the collaged to a new island fashioned from a discarded carte de visite. To a manmade world cut by scissors and buried beneath heavy drapery.
Whichever came first, Salvaged Relatives either way. Matched and inseparable, like,
a pair of straight lines
a pair of intersecting planes
a pair of adjacent complimentary angles
a pair of aces — lucky that
a pair of ragged claws
a pair of plums, pants, wings, and odd ducks
a pair of (honeybee) scissors
a pair of brown eyes
a pair of brown eyes lyrics
a pair of silk stockings
a pair of glasses
a pair of star-cross’d lovers
a pair of scissors is what kind of machine
a pair of shoes — here’s to you, Vincent van Gogh
(Courtesy of Google’s drop down search poetry on a spring afternoon)
Here, there, always together. Whether paired human and animal, front and back, collage and drawing, or collage and print: a perfect pair.
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Orchestrated pairs of big cats, elephants, parrots, and zebras created from the song of honeybee scissors, ink roller, and 2B pencils, were pressed to the glass window of Port Jackson Press Print Gallery.
Later, in February, 2017, a zine of the same name was created. Here, there, the zine, features a selection of our collages and drawings, paired.
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2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Giving libation to John Singer Sargent’s dead bird study of 1878 (limestone and rose)
and
Giving libation to John Singer Sargent’s dead bird study of 1878 (limestone and gold),
2017
Friday 9th of June – Sunday 27th of August, 2017
Port Jackson Press Print Gallery, 84 Smith Street, Collingwood
Giving libation to John Singer Sargent’s dead bird study of 1878 (limestone and rose) and Giving libation to John Singer Sargent’s dead bird study of 1878 (limestone and gold), two prints created especially for Port Jackson Press Print Gallery’s group exhibition, Tracing the Line in Australian Contemporary Printmaking.
