THE REMAKING OF THINGS
What if you could grow a forest from a collection. What if you could weave a floor to ceiling landscape from E. G. Adamson’s Snow coral (1930s–1940s) and Louisa Anne Meredith’s Study for gum-flowers and ‘love’ (c. 1860). Slide Tom Roberts’s She-oak and sunlight (1889) alongside Tom Humphrey’s Summer walk (c. 1888), and glimpse Grace Cossington-Smith’s Bottlebrushes (1935) through the foliage.
Including
Erratic Temporality, Sophie Cunningham, The Melbourne Now broadsheet, 2023
MELBOURNE NOW: THE REMAKING OF THINGS
A green pocket of restored eucalyptus forest habitat collaged with pieces from the collection of the NGV.
Including
”They look straight through your soul”: The art of raising bats, Melissa Cunningham, The Sunday Age, 2023
IN LOCKDOWN PROJECTS, 2020
Pollinator outline, for the 2020 RMIT Print Exchange Portfolio
Live in-studio artist visit, in conversation with Jess Cole, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, at NGV
Including
“I was curious and amused — a night parrot, a marmoset and a bilby each side-eyed me back from three different zines”
Zoë Sadokierski, EXTRA!EXTRA!, 2020
A HEMLINE OF SKY, FOREST, AND WATER THROUGH SMOKE
A Hemline of Sky Through Smoke
A Hemline of Forest Through Smoke
A Hemline of Water Through Smoke
Including
‘The Living and the Dead: artists’ books, absence and presence’, Sarah Bodman, Wrocław University Press, 2026
B is for Book, Frankeinstein Press exhibition, Bristol, UK, 2024
The Mountains Are Calling… , Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol, UK, 2023
FOUR ZINES, 2019–2020
Rewild
Museum Sketches: Your Specimens Sing an Operatic Chorus
Please, I’m looking for (whatever you are looking for)
Paint out
A PAIR OF FOLDED ZINES, 2019
Four Museum Drawings
Five views of a creeping Honey possum (Tarisipes rostratus)
FOUR ZINES, 2017
Take a lesson from the ground
It was a familiar pattern
Pattern
Round, circle, dot
THREE ZINES, 2017
Winged
Limbed
Here, there
PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS, 2017
From Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) to Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata), a digital edition of the unique state artists’ book Prattle, scoop, trembling: a flutter of Australian birds (2016).
FOUR FOLDED ZINES, 2016
Seasonal museum sketches (summer)
Seasonal museum sketches (spring)
Wrens, flycatchers and honeyeaters, beware
Afternoon of a Hopping Mouse (Notomys mitchellii)
A PAIR OF SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2017
Your nimble tread
Your untroubled verse
FIVE ZINES, 2016
The Company You Keep
Whiskers and Bristles
Dear Tails
You and Me
Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes
THE PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION
Cutting the Collection
Thumb Through
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
This artists’ book, The Company You Keep, was released into the wild at the 2016 Melbourne Art Book Fair at the National Gallery of Victoria. In addition, this artists’ book of Yellow-headed parrots and Laughing owls was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria.
CLOSER TO NATURAL
In continuation of a theme explored for Animal Instinct (2016), thirteen costumed Salvaged Relatives on cartes de visite have been paired with drawings of the same collage element in a new and arguably more natural setting.
Including
Printing the Page, State Library Victoria (2016)
BECAUSE I LIKE YOU
Because I Like You is based on the concept of a love letter to ten mammals.
Including
Contemporary Paper: Celebrating a Year of Print (2016)
Wrap Up (2015)
FIVE ZINES, 2015
Thither & Hither
Hither & Thither
Zoological Digs
Gentlemen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Gentlewomen from a deck of Salvaged Relatives
Including
Christian Tatman, ‘Self-made: Zines and Artist Books’ exhibition now on at Bunjil Place, 2018
A DECK OF SALVAGED RELATIVES
In a borrowed costume from Pulcinella, deigned by Giorgio de Chirico, 1932, with a Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) looking to form a charm and others.
FIVE FOLDED ZINES, 2015
A Company of Parrots
Whoot-woo
Birds with tremendous beaks
A charm of finches
Shaped like that of an egg
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2015
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
Salvaged Relatives, boxed