TWO PROJECTS, 2023
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Recall
2023
Collage created for World Book Night United Artists 2023 — We Remember
Sunday 23rd of April, 2023
WBN 2023 is curated and organised by Sarah Bodman and Linda Parr. The exhibition at Hong Kong Design Institute is organised by Jessica Ho Yuk Ching.
Especially for World Book Night, we have created Recall, a double-sided A4 sized memory capsule in the form of a zine that can be printed out upon receipt, folded (along the white lines) and cut (black lines), and read.
When printed double-sided, head to tail, once folded, the zine is 63mm (h) by 45mm (w).
Within the collage you will find the outline of a caterpillar when you open the page and lay it flat. When you fold the page, the caterpillar morphs into several different butterflies. As you leaf through the pages, join together the butterflies from Natural history of eighteen nondescrpt. moths with descriptions. Collected — engraved and faithfully coloured after nature by John William Lewin, New South Wales Parramatta, 1804; Illustrations of spiders and insects from Ash Island by Helena Scott and Harriet Scott ca. 1852–1864 (both part of the Linnean Society of New South Wales: pictorial and manuscript collection, ca. 1797–1970, in the collection of the State Library of NSW); and Thomas Scott’s Insects &c. Van Diemen's Land, 1825. Set to several fragments of moving panoramas attributed to the Borgmann Brothers, ca. 1853, because some memories are like that: sunsets and (nectar-feeding insect) possibilities.
Recall has recently been made into a zine of the same name, especially for the 2023 NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair.
“Some caterpillars walk around with tiny rudimentary wings tucked inside their bodies, though you would never know it by looking at them.”
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For World Book Night 2023, WBN United Artists invite you to read one or both of the following books and consider how you might represent a memory that could be used to create a shared experience, a coming together of voices from the past and present.
I Remember by Joe Brainard
Granary Books, New York City, 2001, ISBN 978-1-88712-348-8 (other editions available)
I Remember (Je me souviens) by Georges Perec
Philip Terry (Translator), David R. Godine, New Hampshire, 2014, ISBN 978-1-56792-517-3
(other editions available)
Our memories give us our personalities but we don’t seem to hold all memories in an instantly reachable database, often needing something to jog memories — smell, sights, sounds, touch and taste (Proust). Memories can be helped to flood up, and a chain of associations unstoppered, a recall from memory forgotten.
So, we would like to receive from you, a memory, to be part of the collaborative World Book Night 2023 exhibition, a combination of memories to document ourselves and our past, and perhaps our future. Using the constraint of something that no longer exists except in memory may jog memories for each other.
We will reveal the keepsake and video on World Book Night Sunday 23rd April, the exhibition will be at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK from mid-April – late June 2023, and Hong Kong Design Institute from late July – end of Sept 2023.
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2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Small, Arboreal, Nocturnal
2023
Collages created for April Golder’s A Cry for the Leadbeater’s Possum
We were commissioned to create artwork for April Golder’s A Cry for the Leadbeater’s Possum. April is working on a project to highlight the effects of native logging on Australia's fauna as part of a University of Melbourne's Wattle Fellowship.
We created a series of three collages, Small, Arboreal, Nocturnal, featuring photographs of a Leadbeater’s possum (Gymnobelideus leadbeateri), and their nest (in the collection of Museums Victoria, 1867).
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April is a Bachelor of Arts student majoring in geography exploring the intersection between politics, power dynamics, and the natural environment.
Her love for Australian landscapes and conservation began in Brisbane, where she grew up, especially following her personal experience with the 2011 floods. Her interests in water policy, native forest protection and Indigenous land sovereignty have led to her volunteering with the Friends of Earth Forests Collective and the Victorian Forest Alliance.
April will focus on the role of education across generations through the Wattle Fellowship by partnering with local conservation groups. This builds on her current leadership role as a member of the executive for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Wattle Fellowship, The University of Melbourne
