A VELVET ANT, A FLOWER AND A BIRD
This exhibition can be seen as a garden of knowledge, structured around three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant, a flower, and a bird. These figures represent a parliament of beings, each carrying symbolic and metaphorical weight that encourage us to reimagine what intelligence means”
— Chus Martinez, Curator
Commission for A Velvet Ant, a Flower and a Bird: Telling Intelligence Otherwise, The Potter Museum of Art, 2026
HOW WILL THEY KNOW THERE’S NO-ONE LEFT
How will they know there’s no-one left?, our first peepshow book released into the wild at the eleventh Melbourne Art Book Fair, 2025.
BILATERAL SYMMETRY
This time around, our fellow exhibitors, the insects, all, momentarily pressed within our artists’ book, Bilateral symmetry, are untethered and unglued upon the unfolding paper stage. And all weighing no more, it is estimated, than 1662 grains of gold, once bound in book form.
Including
Gloriously Wild: How artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison opened a tiny wildlife shelter in their backyard, Brita Frost, The Lost Island, 2024
BRACKETED BY LIGHT
To those who require foraging resources and roosting sites.
To the ingenious ecological kindness of the pollinators and seed dispersers.
The echolocators catching insects on the wing. The leaf-consuming fuel-reducers.
The intricate connection of all things.
DIP AND BOB
Dive into a 620cm long digital collage with an original watercolour cover, created especially for the NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair 2021.
COMPILATION BOX SETS, 2013–2021
Three years, flew: a compilation box of zines, 2019–2021
Nineteen: a compilation box of zines, 2017–2018
Twenty-four: a compilation box of zines, 2015–2016
A constellation of zines, 2014–2015
An order of zines, 2013
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
B is for Book, Frankeinstein Press exhibition, Bristol, UK
SIX LOOPED ZINES
I think all the world is falling
No longer six feet under
Disrupted and rumpled
Dim wood, spark bright
A warmed pebble in my hand
Looped
FOUR ZINES, 2017
Take a lesson from the ground
It was a familiar pattern
Pattern
Round, circle, dot
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)
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2014–2015
Salvaged Relatives, edition I
Salvaged Relatives, edition II
Salvaged Relatives, edition III
Including,
Salvaged Relatives: New work by Gracia & Louise, Alice Cannon, Book Arts Newsletter, 2015
Paper Universe: The Book as Art, Maria Savvidis, Openbook, 2025
Paper Universe: The book as art, Galleries, State Library of NSW, 2025–2026
A TRIO OF STORY BOOKS, 2014
Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
As if from the clouds, restless
The Loon of Swan Hill seeks an audience
A FLIGHT OF TWELVE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BIRDS
This artists’ book was launched alongside A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds in the Leigh Scott Room of the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, 2013.
THIS EVENING, HOWEVER, I AM THINKING OF THINGS PAST
This evening, however, I am thinking of things past wasmade for and exhibited as part of A key to help make your own world visible (2009).
SLEEPING DURING THE DAY
Sleeping during the day, was made especially for Playing Field (2010), as part of Craft Victoria’s annual Craft Cubed festival.
A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2009
In search of a time the heart does not recall (Souvenir of Johannesburg)
Through purgatory passed, and then there was Bombay (Photogravure views of Bombay)
Seen and later forgotten (Souvenir of Niagara Falls)
Passing through, undetected for the time being (A Souvenir of Bangor)
Avant et Après (Dixmude, Before and After the War of 1914–1918)
A SERIES OF SIX ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2009
At the Château de la Malmaison tigers roam
Forming new acquaintances at the birthplace of Honoré de Balzac
I am not trying to trick you; not purposefully
They ate their meals on the grass and danced on the lawns (Versailles & les Trianons)
Meet me at the Opéra Theatre and hand in hand we'll go through the streets of Paris (Paris Vues Artistiques)
Eager for the old joys once more (Musée Grévin)
FIND YOUR PLACE
Find Your Place was exhibited as part of A trapdoor in every room (2007), and later as part of the 2008 Libris Awards: Australian Artists’ Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland.
A SERIES OF FOUR ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2005
The Case of the Lost Aviary
By the Pricking of My Claws
The Dubious Clue
Trouble at Sea
Featuring a cast of extinct animals, a series of artists’ books with a distinct nod towards Agatha Christie, created for and exhibited as part of Ex Libris at RMIT, and later shown as part of Dervish (2006), Fictions (2008) at MUMA, and Interconnections: Books, Text, Art (2014) at the University of Melbourne’s Baillieu Library.
THOSE TWO DARING PIRATES
Those Two Daring Pirates was launched in West Melbourne at Hound Dog’s Bop Shop, a record shop specialising in original and reissues of rock & roll, rockabilly, hillbilly, country, blues, soul, jive and boogie.