SIX EXHIBITIONS, 2016–2018
1/ Self-made: Zines and Artist Books
2017
Curated by Monica Syrette
Blue Rotunda, Cowen Gallery, State Library Victoria
Friday 11th of August – Sunday 12th of November, 2017
Touring
Bunjil Place Gallery (2 Patrick North East Drive, Narre Warren, Victoria), Thursday 8th of March – Sunday 29th of April, 2018
Mildura Arts Centre (199 Cureton Avenue, Mildura, Victoria), Thursday 21st of June – Sunday 2nd of September, 2018
Murray Bridge Regional Gallery (27 Sixth Street, Murray Bridge, South Australia), Saturday 15th of September – Sunday 21st of October, 2018
New England Regional Art Museum (106-114 Kentucky Street, South Hill, New South Wales), Friday 9th of November, 2018 – Sunday 3rd of February, 2019
Tweed Regional Gallery (Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah, New South Wales), Friday 1st of March – Sunday 19th of May, 2019
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery (531 Ruthen Street, Toowoomba, Queensland), Saturday 1st of June – Sunday 28th of July, 2019
Latrobe Regional Gallery (138 Commercial Road, Morwell, Victoria), Saturday 10th of August – Sunday 10th of November, 2019
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
A Deck of Salvaged Relatives
2015
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring 26 individual collages on carte de visite with pencil and paint additions (by Gracia Haby) with 26 accompanying lino print title cards, housed in a red cloth Solander box (bound by Louise Jennison) with inlaid collages
Gracia Haby
Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
Gracia Haby
Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
May, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
Louise Jennison
A Company of Parrots
December, 2015
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
Self-made: zines and artist books, a travelling State Library exhibition, which began in the Blue Rotunda, Cowen Gallery, State Library Victoria, in 2017, has since headed to Bunjil Place Gallery, Mildura Arts Centre, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery in 2018. In 2019, Self-made toured to New England Regional Art Museum, Tweed Regional Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, and Latrobe Regional Gallery.
Self-made: Zines and Artist Books
Self-made: Zines and Artist Books is a new exhibition showcasing the eclectic world of independent publishing, from exquisite handmade artist books to radical low-fi zines, opening at State Library Victoria on 11 August. This bold exhibition delves into the evolution of do-it-yourself culture, from limited-run artist books to cut-and-paste photocopy fanzines. Discover science fiction fanzines from the 1940s, ground-breaking 1970s punk zines, Australian underground press publications, and artist books designed to defy tradition and buck the commercial gallery system.
Developed in partnership with The Sticky Institute, Self-made will display rarely-seen material from the Library’s collection of artist books and its zine collection — the largest and most comprehensive in Australia.
Exhibition curator Monica Syrette said Self-made will take visitors on a journey through the colourful and sometimes controversial evolution of self-publishing. “The history of zine-making and self-publishing is inextricably linked to influential counter-cultural movements and social activism. What we’re displaying — items like sci-fi zines from the 1940s, punk zines from the seventies and contemporary feminist zines — are all reflections of the political and cultural movements of the time. The artist books in Self-made were also ground-breaking, designed to circumvent the commercial gallery system and make art easily available to all.”
The exhibition features works by leading international artists including Swiss German artist, Dieter Roth; Pop Art influenced American artist, Ed Ruscha; pioneering conceptual artist Sol LeWitt; and renowned Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker, Robert Jacks; alongside works by contemporary artists and zine-makers.
More than 170 works will be on display, including a dedicated reading lounge, revealing the breadth and beauty of artist books and zines.
Self-made: zines and artist books will be on display at State Library Victoria from 11 August until 12 November 2017 and will tour Victoria and interstate in 2018. This exhibition is supported by the Visions regional touring program, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to cultural material for all Australians.
State Library Victoria
The Cold War in Australia, and the anarchic world of zines, on The Conversation Hour
Listen to The Cold War in Australia, and the anarchic world of zines, to hear Louise with Monica Syrette talking about zines and artists’ books.on The Conversation Hour with Jon Faine on ABC Radio Melbourne.
Duration: 1hr
Broadcast: Thursday 27th July, 2017, 11:00am
Jon Faine's co-host is Emily Sexton, who is the Head of Programming at the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne Festival, and The City of Melbourne have joined forces to present The Festival of Questions at the Melbourne Town Hall on Sunday 15th October, 2017.
Their first guests, Mark Aarons and John Grenville, have collaborated on the new book The Show: Another Side of Santamaria's Movement (Scribe). Mark Aarons is a journalist and author, who was once a member of the Communist Party of Australia. He's a former ABC Radio National reporter, was the founding EP of Background Briefing, and went on to work as an advisor to NSW Premier Bob Carr. Mark's books include The Family File and War Criminals Welcome. John Grenville is an industrial advocate, who was once a member of the National Civic Council (The Movement). He's a former Federal Secretary of the Federated Clerks Union, and was Assistant Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council.
Then they are joined by Monica Syrette and Louise Jennison. Monica is a curator at the State Library of Victoria, and has put together the show Self-made: Zines and Artist Books which features work by Louise. Louise works with Gracia Haby as Gracia & Louise. The exhibition Self-made: zines and artist books is on at the State Library Victoria from 11th August to 12th November, 2017, and will then tour to the Mildura Arts Centre, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, New England Regional Art Museum, Tweed Regional Gallery, Toowoomba Regional Gallery, and Latrobe Regional Gallery through 2018 and 2019.
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Encrusted in a rock
2018
Etching
Printed by APW Printer Martin King at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, 2018
Edition of 20
Impressions
APW, 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Friday 16th of November, 2018 – Saturday 16th of February, 2019
We’ve created a print of barnacles and a Black swan for the Australian Print Workshop’s 2018 fundraising exhibition.
Image courtesy of Australian Print Workshop
3/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Not my sky (exhibit A)
2017
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, with collage components
Beneath the stack of a Griffon vuture’s rock nest, a niche in which to read. Beneath the dome of a blue plastered sky, something akin to nature. In our adapted environments, some, but in no way all, of the things we require, if you ignore the creatures on the other side of the glass.
In our image, freedom is reconfigured in exhibit A.
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Imaginings: A print exchange folio and exhibition project curated by Rona Green
EEMMA ‘RUBY’ ARMSTRONG-PORTER, JANET AYLIFFE, SUSAN BARAN, KYLIE BLACKLEY, HELEN BLUE, LORIS BUTTON, ELAINE CAMLIN, LAURA CASTELL, JENNY CLAPSON, ELIZABETH COLE, PAUL COMPTON, RACHEL DERUM, SUE ERNST, IAN ‘SPIKE’ FARRAWELL, PHILIP FAULKS, KEVIN FOLEY, SUE FRASER, RONA GREEN (CURATOR), GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON, GREGORY HARRISON, CAROLYN HAWKINS, BILL HAY, KATE HUDSON, KYOKO IMAZU, JET JAMES, DEBORAH KLEIN, JO LANKESTER, SUZIE LOCKERY, CASSIE MAY, JOHN MCCLUMPHA, AARON MCLOUGHLIN, LORELEI MEDCALF, GLENN MORGAN, KAREN NEAL, BELINDA ‘BILLY’ NYE, SHARRON OKINES, DIANA ORINDA BURNS, GLENDA ORR, TRAVIS PATERSON, JIM PAVLIDIS, SUE POGGIOLI, JOCELYN RAWLINS, BRONWYN REES, TRUDY RICE, DAVID ROSENGRAVE, JOHN RYRIE, JILL SAMPSON, GWEN SCOTT, BENJAMIN SEXTON, HEATHER SHIMMEN, GLEN SMITH, SANDRA STARKEY SIMON, MRS STAMP, MAGGIE STEIN, RACHEL SUAREZ, SOPHIA SZILAGYI, SCOTT TREVELYAN, LEE WARD, PETER WARD, JUSTIN WATSON, ANDREW WEATHERILL, LYNETTE WEIR, JOEL WOLTER, CHRISTINE WREST SMITH
SATURDAY 2ND OF DECEMBER – TUESDAY 19TH OF DECEMBER, 2017
NEOSPACE, 7 CAMPBELL STREET, COLLINGWOOD
4/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Take a lesson from the ground (I through IV)
2017
A series of four inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308gsm, with watercolour on Fabriano Artistico 640gsm traditional white hot-press paper
The Confessional
GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON, LUCY FOSTER, PIA JOHNSON, STEPHANIE KARAVASILIS, LAURA MCPHEE-BROWNE, JULIA POWLES
AN EXHIBITION CURATED BY CARLY RICHARDSON AND ALICE DICKINS
WEDNESDAY 1ST OF NOVEMBER – SATURDAY 2ND OF DECEMBER, 2017
MAILBOX ART SPACE, 141–143 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE
I tell my secret? No indeed, not I:
Perhaps some day, who knows?
Christina Rossetti’s sleight-of-hand secret[i] enfolded itself in “a shawl; a veil, a cloak, and other wraps”, and would not open “to everyone who tap[ped]”. And behind the glass doors of Mailbox Art Space, we have posted the heart in hiding, two-times twice. Peer and peck at the glass, to see something akin to true nature. In our masked environments, “suppose there is no secret after all.” Just you and me, leaving quiet footsteps.
[i] Christina Rossetti composed Winter: My Secret in 1857, and it was published in her first volume of poetry, Goblin Market and Other Poems, in 1862.
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5/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
It was a familiar pattern
2017
Created for and exhibited as part of Unusual
Milly Sleeping, 157 Elgin Street, Carlton
Wednesday 11th of October – Sunday 29th of October, 2017
A moving collage of 250 stills, looped, roaming, and projected, created especially for Milly Sleeping’s Unusual. It was a familiar pattern features inhabitants from our artists' book A warmed pebble in my hand and other tales. The green cat as sentinel, the sleeping boy, they are all there, stowaway rooster too. Moths and birds from No longer six feet under also. From the base collage beneath Disrupted and rumpled, you can see the golden whaling ship upon the grey sea, and all to the sounds of the glockenspiel and our bathroom shower.
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Unusual
ALEXI FREEMAN, ALICE HUTCHINSON, ALY PEEL, ANNA VARENDORFF, BIRGETTA HELMERSSON, ELISE SHEEHAN, ELIZABETH YONG, GRACIA HABY & LOUISE JENNISON, KATHERINE BOWMAN, IVETT SIMON, JESSILLA ROGERS, SEB BROWN, SUZAN DLOUHY, VIKKI KASSIORAS
Fourteen contributing artists, ourselves included, were invited to make new works that somehow differ from their usual output. This presented much potential for experimentation... perhaps the use of a different material, a different technique, or the chance to work towards a new form. Today was the first day that the finished works began to roll in to Milly. It was very exciting to see both diversity and synchronicity, and sort of astonishing to see how much quiet labour has been going on.
Milly Sleeping
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6/ Animal Instinct
2016
Metropolis Gallery, 64 Ryrie Street, Geelong, Victoria
Saturday 5th of March – Saturday 19th of March, 2016
For Animal Instinct, we created four elaborately costumed Salvaged Relatives on cartes de visite (by Gracia) paired with drawings (by Louise) of the same collage element in a new and arguably more natural setting.
In the borrowed evening jacket inspired by the heavens, designed by Elsa Schiaparelli, c. 1937, with an American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
Gracia Haby
2015
Collage on carte de visite with pencil and paint additions
65mm(w) x 105mm (h)
(paired with)
Closer to natural (American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus))
Louise Jennison
2016
Pencil on Fabriano Artistico 640gsm traditional white hot-press paper with metallic paint trim
65mm(w) x 105mm (h)
In the borrowed jacket from The hunt, Act I, Giselle, designed by Alexandre Benois, c. 1910, with a Golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus)
(paired with)
Closer to natural (Golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus))
Closer to natural (Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus))
(paired with)
In a borrowed costume for Columbine from Carnival, designed by Léon Bakst, c. 1942, with a Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
Closer to natural (Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti))
(paired with)
In the borrowed costume for a Greek from Cléopâtre, designed by Léon Bakst, c. 1909, with a Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti)
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ANITA BARRETT, DEAN BOWEN, JAZMINA CININAS, RONA GREEN, BRIDGET FARMER, LUCY HARDIE, GRACIA HABY AND LOUISE JENNISON, SHERIDAN JONES, KYOKO IMAZU, ADRIAN LOCKHART, JOHN RYRIE, JUDI SINGLETON, JESS SZIGETHY-GYULA, TJANPI DESERT WEAVERS, DEBORAH WILLIAMS, GAIL WILLOUGHBY
Metropolis Gallery is excited to present Animal Instinct which explores how artists view animals and at times appropriate their characteristics to make sense of the human species and connect more with the natural world.
This exhibition presents diverse interpretations by a number of artists in a variety of mediums
Metropolis Gallery
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