FIVE ZINES, 2016
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
The Company You Keep
May, 2016
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 15cm X 10.5cm, 31 page full-colour zine with a colour cover and cardboard back and a black spine.
One of nine new zines made especially for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2016. The Company You Keep is a Salvaged Relatives zine from the artists' book of the same name, featuring colour reproductions of all 15 collages on cabinet cards, with the titles printed on grey paper.
1. In the company of an extinct Short-tailed hopping-mouse (Notomys amplus) from Central Australia, and Leonardo’s ermine (Mustela erminea)
2. In the company of a central Australian Desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), last seen in 1935, and a Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)
3. In the company of the gentlest of owls, a Laughing owl (Sceloglaux albifacies), last seen in 1914
4. In the company of a Seychelles parakeet (Psittacula wardi), last seen in 1870
5. In the company of a Seychelles parakeet (Psittacula wardi), last seen in 1870, and a Yellow-headed parrot (Amazona oratrix)
6. In a borrowed evening ensemble of gold organdy, designed by Norman Norell, 1970–71, with a Darwin's rice-rat (Nesoryzomys darwini), last seen in 1929 on Indefatigable Island
7. Grandma Ferry in the company of a Nicobar pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica), in a photographic studio in Sydney Rd., Brunswick
8. In a borrowed costume of a Tigress, designed by Gilbert Adrian, 1949, with a Giant hummingbird (Patagona gigas)
9. In an offcut of a costume of a Tigress, designed by Gilbert Adrian, 1949, with a Kea (Nestor notabilis) in a photographic studio in South Melbourne
10. In a borrowed costume of a Tigress, designed by Gilbert Adrian, 1949, accompanied by a tiger (Panthera tigris)
11. In the company of an extinct Molokai ‘O’o (Moho bishopi) of the Hawaiian Islands, last seen in 1904
12. Florence Hunter in the company of an extinct Guadalupe caracara (Polyborus lutosus), last seen in 1900 by collector Rollo Beck
13. In the company of a nectar-loving Small Mauritian flying-fox (Pteropus subniger), last seen in the early 1800s, and a Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew (Dendrogale melanura)
14. In a borrowed costume of silk organza poppies, designed by Arnold Scaasi, 1983, accompanied by a critically endangered Golden arrow-poison frog (Atelopus zeteki), and a Fire-crested alethe (Alethe castanea)
15. In the borrowed costume of dragon scales of overlapping gold and silver sequins, designed by Travis Banton for actress Anna May Wong in her role as Tu Tuan, a nightclub entertainer in the 1934 film, Limehouse Blues, and a Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)
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RELATED LINKS,
THREE BOUND, AND NINETY-SEVEN TO GO (THE WORKING TABLE)
PAGE AFTER PAGE, COLLATING THE COMPANY YOU KEEP IN THE QUIET OF THE AFTERNOON (MUSIC: AMIINA, HEMIPODE)
RELATED POSTS,
WHIRL, WHOOSH, SWOOP
FAIRGROUND BECKONS
WORK IN PROGRESS
TINKERING WITH PURPOSE
PINS IN SPIN
COSTUMED
2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Whiskers and Bristles
May, 2016
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 10.5cm X 10.5cm, 32 page B&W zine with yellow card and tracing paper covers and a black spine.
One of nine new zines made especially for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Art Book Fair in the Great Hall, NGV International, May 2016. Whiskers and Bristles features a single set of collages and the woodblock portraits of animals from the artists’ book, Because I Like You.
Animals featured,
Greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
Black-and-gold howler monkey (Alouatta caraya)
Rufous mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus)
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Royal antelope (Neotragus pygmaeus)
Californian sea lion (Zalophus californianus)
Snow leopard (Panthera uncia)
Greater stick-nest rat (Leporillus conditor)
Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris)
3/ Elaine Haby
with Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Dear Tails
May, 2016
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
Beloved Omar
9th May 2014
Beloved Percy
4th January 2016
A central role, jointly shared, our home would be little to nothing without our pets, and so this is for them, as well as you, their whiskery, bristly presence immortalised in this selection of daily drawings by Elaine Haby (from 2013 to 2016). Nose to tail, page by page, and side by side, the dearly departed and the current crew, together as we hold quiet the tick-tock of the clock and invite you to pause and marvel at the paws marvellous of N. Fitz..
Omar, Percy, Olive, Lenni, and Lottie: here’s to you. The ring-ins and blow-bys too. Agile, clever, graceful, and bright. Playful, crafty, loving, and constant. Charming, base and snoring. Just like us and yet nothing like us. Pets, you wondrous pets, showing us all how to be. Showing us “the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.”[i]
“Loving old acquaintances, sniff.”[ii]
Ain’t no doubt, we worship at the shrine of the pet.
[i] Diane Ackerman, The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral, 1974
[ii] E. B. White, Dogs Around the Block, 1938
4/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
You and Me
February, 2016
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 10.5cm X 15cm 20 page B&W zine on grey paper, hand-stitched with black thread.
You and Me features a series of four pairs of works created for the exhibition Animal Instinct, Metropolis Gallery, Geelong.
Playing a part, in collage and pencil, an American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus), Golden angwantibo (Arctocebus aureus), Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops franqueti), and a Three-toed sloth (Bradypus variegatus).
You and Me was released into the wild at the 2020 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier Zine Fair.
5/ Gracia Haby
Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes
February, 2016
Digital print zine
Edition of 100
A 21cm X 30cm (folded to 10.5cm X 7.5cm in proportion), full-colour zine.
This zine features seven collaged Salvaged Relatives on cartes de visite.
This zine featured in the reading library of the touring exhibition, Self-made: Zines and Artist Books, at the State Library Victoria, 2017. The exhibition also included our artists’ book, A Deck of Salvaged Relatives, and two accompanying pocket-sized zines featuring costumed Salvaged Relatives.
In the borrowed costume from Petrouchka, designed by Alexandre Benois, c 1911, with a Burrowing owl (Speotyto cunicularia).
In the borrowed costume for a Little God from Le Dieu bleu, after Léon Bakst, 1912, with an Eastern collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris).
In the borrowed costume for a Young Man from The Rite of Spring, after Nicholas Roerich, 1913, with a Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus).
In the borrowed costume worn by Fyodor Chaliapin in the Coronation Scene from Boris Godunov for Diaghilev’s Saison Russes, after Alekandr Golovin, c 1908, with a Western tarsier (Tarsius bancanus).
In the borrowed costume from The Sleeping Princess, c. 1921, designed by Léon Bakst, with a an Indri (Indri indri) and a Leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis).
In the borrowed costume for Vaslav Nijinsky as the Prince from the pas de deux L’Oiseau et la Prince, after Léon Bakst, 1914, with a Northern cricket frog (Acris crepitans).
With a Russian (Vladimir) doll from the second half of the 18th century’s headpiece of glass, pearls, linen, cotton and wood.
