THE REMAKING OF THINGS
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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.

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PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS
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PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS

Whether knee-deep in carpet weave or native grass clump, this naturalist's companion is misleading, but its dedication, sincere. Created especially for and exhibited in its entirety as part of Birds: Flight paths in Australian Art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Including
Leah Muddle, True or False? Milly Sleeping: Quick Interview with Gracia Haby of Gracia & Louise, 2017

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FOLLOWING THE SOFT PERCUSSION OF YOUR TREAD
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FOLLOWING THE SOFT PERCUSSION OF YOUR TREAD

An artists’ book twenty-six pages in length, made especially for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV International, May 2015, which at first glance appears to take place in several of the 15,000 rooms of the Château de Fontainebleau.

Including
Gracia & Louise on making artists’ book, State Library Victoria (2015)

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THREE ZINES, 2011
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THREE ZINES, 2011

My dear, don’t worry my deer

An even distribution of weight

Small ephemeral atlas

Including
Sarah Bodman, ‘Artists’ Books in Australia’, Collaboration, Cooperation, & Shared Goals, JAB—Journal of Artists’ Books, 2012

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SEVEN FOLDED ZINES, 2011
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SEVEN FOLDED ZINES, 2011

Humble birds

Birds that like to display

Webbed

The Interloper

Birds that have caught my eye in print, but I've never been lucky enough to see in reality

An aurora of polar bears I have dreamt of

Five proud birds

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AND WE STOOD ALONE IN THE SILENT NIGHT
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AND WE STOOD ALONE IN THE SILENT NIGHT

And we stood alone in the silent night was exhibited as part of But for the moon nobody could see us (2008), this artists’ book features several of our collaborative works created especially for our part in Lines & Shapes, Volume 3, Gather (2008).

Including
Victoria Cooper, Reading Montages: perceptions, dilemmas, edges and resolution, State Library of Queensland, 2016

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