A TRIO OF KING PENGUINS, 2012
1/ Gracia Haby
Testing the laws of hazard
2012
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
The forty-third King Penguin, A Prospect of Wales (published 1948), with an essay by Gwyn Jones and twenty colour plates by Kenneth Rowntree, is now home to the woolly spider monkey, the drill, the dugong, Wallace’s flying frog, and the collared lizard. This ‘modified’ copy comes also with the handwritten inscription in unknown hand: “Better a Whale of Prospects than a Prospect of Wales! 20th Sept. 1948.”
This artists’ book was made especially for the exhibition, By This Unwinking Night (2012). Several page details from this work were published in the first volume Materiality, 2012.
Other King Penguins to have been modified by means of collage include One step ahead; The first aerial travellers; his is where the dormouse lives; and A headdress to show you how much I care.
The entire series of King Penguins thus far is in the collection of the State Library of NSW.
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2/ Gracia Haby
This is where the dormouse lives
2012
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
The fifty-second King Penguin, The Isle of Wight (published 1950), illustrated and described by Barbara Jones, is now home to the dog bat, the toucan, the sea otter, the woolly lemur, the lar gibbon and leopard cat. It features sixteen colour plates and five black and white illustrations in total, with a cover designed by Clifford Barry. To this single copy made especially for the exhibition By This Unwinking Night (2012), several alterations now describe or perhaps hoodwink your understanding of where it is the dormouse calls home.
This artists’ book is in the collection of the State Library of NSW.
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OVER MY SHOULDER (VII)
IN THE GALLERY, BEFORE A WALL OF SOME 443 POSTCARD COLLAGES, WE INVITE YOU TO TURN THE PAGES OF THIS IS WHERE THE DORMOUSE LIVES, IN OUR SEVENTH IPHONE FILM. THIS TIME ARE TAKING YOU TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT IN THE YEAR 1950, AND SINGING IN THE BACKGROUND YOU CAN HEAR CLARA SMITH (BLACK CAT MOAN, 1927).
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3/ Gracia Haby
A headdress to show you how much I care
2012
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring collage elements and pencil
The sixtieth King Penguin, The Crown Jewels (published 1951), is now home to the solitary paca (upon the cover), a red howler atop Queen Mary’s crown and a black howler atop the Queen Consort’s crown, and an ocelot by the Orbs. It features sixteen colour plates now embellished and buffed by animal tail, and it was made especially for the exhibition By This Unwinking Night (2012).
This artists’ book is in the collection of the State Library of NSW.
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OVER MY SHOULDER (VIII)
IN THE GALLERY, BEFORE A WALL OF SOME 443 POSTCARD COLLAGES, WE INVITE YOU TO TURN THE PAGES OF A HEADDRESS TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH I CARE. PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND, YOU CAN HEAR THE DELIGHTS OF ROY SMECK'S UKULELE BOUNCE, 1949.
PRECIOUS PRINT
A DETAIL FROM THIS ARTISTS' BOOK FEATURES ON THE COVER OF MATERIALITY, NUMBER 3: PRECIOUS, PINKNANTUCKET PRESS, 2014
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A HEADDRESS TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH I CARE
DELIGHT
