SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2015
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 15cm X 10.5cm, 40 page full-colour zine with colour covers and a red spine.
This zine, based on the unique state artists’ book, Salvaged Relatives, edition I, features reproductions of all 21 collages on cabinet cards. In addition, it features a letter to the Salvaged Relatives, a written accompaniment by Gracia Haby. The first thirty of the edition were released in a handmade slipcase with a hand-punched cosmos.
One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015. Companions to this costumed zine are the yellow and blue editions.
(Inside cover) In the borrowed headdress of a seahorse from Sadko (c. 1916)
1. In the borrowed costume for a lady-in-waiting, c. 1921, designed by Léon Bakst, with a Piapiac (Ptilostomus afer)
2. In the borrowed costume for a squid from Sadko, designed by Natalia Goncharova, c. 1916
3. In the headdress of Shah Shahriar from Shéhérazade, 1910–30s, with a Jungle runner (Ameiva ameiva)
4. Fashioned as a necktie, a modified costume for a slave or dancing girl from Cleopatra, 1909, with a Rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri)
5. In the borrowed costume for an Ivan, c. 1922, designed by Natalia Goncharova, from Aurora’s Wedding, with a Golden cat (Felis aurata)
6. In the borrowed costume for Queen Thamar, c. 1912, with a House mouse (Mus musculus) and a Marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) tucked under the arm
7. In the headdress of a Maiden from The Rite of Spring, 1913, with an Okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
8. In the borrowed costume for a Court Lady in Francesca da Rimini, c. 1937, with an Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
9. In the borrowed costume for a Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov for Diaghilev’s Saison Russes, c. 1908, with a three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
10. In the borrowed costume of Prince Charming from The Sleeping Princess, c. 1921, with a Black-bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas)
11. In the borrowed costume for a Prince, with ‘essence d’orient pearls’ from Sadko, c. 1916, with a Red fish (Sebastes marinus)
12. In the borrowed costume worn by Doris Faithful as the Sea Princess from Sadko, after Natalia Goncharova, 1916
13. In the borrowed costume for a slave or dancing girl, designed by Sonia Delaunay, 1918, with a Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebes)
14. In the modified headdress for the Mandarin from The song of the nightingale, after Henri Matisse, 1920, with an aardvark (Orycteropus afer)
15. In the borrowed costume for a Polovtsian Warrior from Prince Igor, c. 1909, with a Leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius)
16. In the borrowed costume for a spirit of the hours from Le Pavillon d’Armide, c. 1909, designed by Alexandre Benois, with a Flying fish (Exocetus volitans)
17. In the borrowed costume of a Polovtsian Warrior, 1909–37, designed by Nicholas Roerich, with an Australian rainbowfish (Melanotaenia fluviatilis) and a Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta)
18. In the borrowed costume for a peasant woman from Le Coq d’or, c. 1937, with a Red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa)
19. In the borrowed costume of the Chief Eunich from Schéhérazade, designed by Léon Bakst, c. 1910, with a Red spurfowl (Galloperdix spadicea)
20. In the borrowed costume for the Huzzar, c. 1933, from Massine’s Le Beau Danube, with a Himalayan snowcock (Tetraogallus himalayensis)
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 15cm X 10.5cm, 40 page full-colour zine with colour covers and a yellow spine.
This zine, based on the unique state artists’ book, Salvaged Relatives, edition II, features reproductions of all 21 collages on cabinet cards. In addition, it features a letter to the Salvaged Relatives, a written accompaniment by Gracia Haby. The first thirty of the edition were released in a handmade slipcase with a hand-punched cosmos.
One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015. Companions to this costumed zine are the red and blue editions.
(Inside cover) In the borrowed costume for Dr Romualdo with an Angolian talapoin (Miopithecus talapoin)
1. In the modified costume for the Prince in L’Oiseau d’Or, c. 1909, with its red raspberry temptation
2. In the stained costume of a Young Man from The Rite of Spring, c. 1913, with a Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrew (Dendrogale melanura)
3. In the borrowed costume for the Buffoon’s Wife from Chout, with cane-stiffened felt and cotton, c. 1921, and a Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco)
4. In the borrowed costume of a Polovtsian Warrior, 1909–37, designed by Nicholas Roerich, with a Blue-winged parrot (Neophema chrysostoma)
5. In a modified headdress from a Mourner from The song of the nightingale, c.1920, designed by Henri Matisse, with an Emerald toucanet (Aulacorhynchus prasinus)
6. In the borrowed costume for a friend of Queen Thamar, designed by Léon Bakst, with a Large ground finch (Geospiza magnirostris) hovering in attendance
7. In the borrowed skirt of Columbine, c. 1942, with a Pen-tailed tree shrew (Ptilocercus lowii) and a Water opossum (Chironectes minimus)
8. In the headdress of a Seahorse, taking dictation from a Madras tree shrew (Anathana ellioti)
9. In the borrowed costume for a chamberlain from The song of the nightingale, c. 1920, with a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)
10. In the borrowed costume for a court lady from The sleeping princess, c. 1921, designed by Léon Bakst, with an Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
11. In a borrowed tunic from Pulcinella, 1932, designed by Giorgio de Chirico, 1932, with a Pinecone fish (Monocentris japonicas) and an Emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri)
12. A family portrait in the borrowed mantle from King Dodon, c. 1937, designed by Natalia Goncharova
13. In the borrowed costume for a Squid from Sadko, designed by Natalia Goncharova, c. 1916, with a Queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula)
14. In the borrowed costume of a Prince for Vaslav Nijinsky, 1914
15. In the borrowed costume for a guest from Balanchine’s Le Bal, c. 1929, with a Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra)
16. In a borrowed costume from Carnival, designed by Léon Bakst, c. 1920, with a Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi)
17. In the borrowed headdress worn by Adolph Bolm as the Prince from Sadko, 1916, with a Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli)
18. In the borrowed costume for Pierrot, 1920–24, cradling an Atlantic flyingfish (Cheilopogon melanurus)
19. In a borrowed costume from Scene II of Massine’s Les Présages, c. 1933
20. In borrowed costume for a soldier from Chout, c. 1921, designed by Mikhail Larinov
3/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 15cm X 10.5cm, 40 page full-colour zine with colour covers and a blue spine.
This zine, based on the unique state artists’ book, Salvaged Relatives, edition III, features reproductions of all 21 collages on cabinet cards. In addition, it features a letter to the Salvaged Relatives, a written accompaniment by Gracia Haby. The first thirty of the edition were released in a handmade slipcase with a hand-punched cosmos.
One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015. Companions to this costumed zine are the red and yellow editions.
(Inside cover) In the borrowed costume of a Polovtsian warrior (Prince Igor c. 1909–37)
1. In a borrowed cape, designed by Léon Bakst from Papillions, c. 1914
2. In the modified tunic of the Blue God, c. 1912, designed by Léon Bakst, with a Monk saki (Pithecia monachus)
3. In the borrowed costume for Lezghin, c. 1912, from Thamar
4. In the borrowed costume worn by Alice Nikitina as Flore from Zéphire et Flore, after Georges Braque, 1925, with a Cream-coloured courser (Cursorius cursor)
5. In a borrowed costume from The Firebird, designed by Natalia Goncharova, c. 1926, with an endangered Peralta giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis peralta)
6. In the borrowed costume of an unspecified character from Pulcinella, 1932, designed by Giorgio de Chirico, with a Rufous-tailed plantcutter (Phytotoma rara)
7. In a modified costume from a Maiden from Vaslav Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring, c. 1913, with a Plate-billed mountain toucan (Andigena laminirostris)
8. In the borrowed costume for a Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov for Diaghilev’s Saison Russes, c. 1908, with an Eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunni)
9. In the headdress of a Maiden from The Rite of Spring, 1913, with a Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) and a pair of Star finches (Neochmia ruficauda)
10. In a borrowed crown from Sadko, with a Grey treefrog (Hyla versicolor)
11. In the backwards costume for the Buffoon, 1921, after Mikhail Larinov, with a Curl-crested aracari (Pteroglossus beauharnaesii)
12. In the modified costume for the Prince in L’Oiseau d’Or from Le Festin, c. 1909, with a Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus) and a North African gerbil (Dipodillus campestris)
13. In the modified costume for a Little God from Le Dieu bleu with a brass headdress, 1912, with an Indri (Indri indri)
14. In the borrowed costume for Petrouchka, designed by Alexandre Benois, c. 1911, with a Mountain tree shrew (Tupaia montana) and a Flap-necked chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis)
15. In the modified robe (no longer with ermine tails as decoration) for King Dodon from Le Coq d’or, c. 1937, designed by Natalia Goncharova
16. In the modified costume for a Young Man, designed by Giorgio de Chirico, c. 1929, with a Harpy fruit bat (Harpyionycteris whiteheadi)
17. After Henri Matisse, in the borrowed costume for a Courtier from The song of the nightingale, 1920, with gold studs, paint, satin, and braid
18. After David Hockney, in the borrowed costume for the Bonze from The Nightingale, 1982, with crêpe, lamé, a Greater glider (Petauroides volans) and a Blue parrotfish (Scarus coeruleus)
19. In the borrowed costume for an attendant of Köstchei from The firebird, 1910, designed by Aleksandr Golovin and Léon Bakst, with a Short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica)
20. In the borrowed costume for Shah Zeman from Schéhérazade, 1910–30s, with a Swallow-tanagier (Tersina viridis)
4/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Salvaged Relatives, boxed
May, 2015
Digital print zine within a slipcase
Edition of 30
A 15cm X 10.5cm X 1.5cm grey card slipcase with hand-punched cosmos, housing a red, yellow, and blue edition of Salvaged Relatives.
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
One of several zines made for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2015.
A boxed set of Salvaged Relatives was exhibited as part of Pagination (2016) at the University of Newcastle, alongside As inclination directs (2013) and Those Two Daring Pirates (2004).
