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.
SIX PRINTS, 2010
For our part in the exhibition Playing Field and in addition to the artists’ book, Sleeping during the day, we made five prints especially related to the theme of Childhood.
Including
From this bed, with the wings of a bird, I flew to the sea as I slept last night especially for Of Birds and Fishes/ Over Vissen en Vogels
THREE PRINTS, 2006–2010
Owl
They whispered the secrets of the world to me
A blue-faced female black-naped Monarch whispers the secrets of the world to me but I am unimpressed
Including
I Make Stuff, publication by Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson, 2009
In interview with Anne Ditmeyer of Prêt à Voyager on Design*Sponge, 2008
THREE ZINES, 2010
Several foxes enfolded
A set of two things regarded as a unit
A menagerie of common and exotic animals
Including
Thereza Rowe, Zines: A Labour of love, Doodlers Anonymous, 2010
FIVE WINDOW DISPLAYS AND PROJECTS, 2005–2010
Project Patchwork, Craft Victoria
Watching over me day and night and My little menagerie, MINE
All the things to take to our very own archipelago, Craft Victoria
A parliament of owls, Craft Victoria
Including
Limited edition handmade projects for Iris & Hazel, Lee Mathews Workroom, and Craft Victoria
Interview for Clog, Craft Victoria, 2008
Meet the Creators Gracia & Louise, Issue 2: The Urban Issue, Blanket Magazine, 2007
A PAIR OF ZINES, SHELVED, 2010
There, a moment held
Quadrupeds drawn from London’s Natural History Museum collection
Including
Melissa Hart, Mornington Peninsula Library Interview: Louise Jennison, 2010
THREE ZINES, TUMBLED AND PINNED, 2010
Closing my eyes, it is possible to imagine myself anywhere but where I am (I)
Closing my eyes, it is possible to imagine myself anywhere but where I am (II)
Who are you?
Including
Alexandra Hedberg, Art as Business: Gracia Haby, 2010
FOR YOUR POCKET
We are dreaming of the sea
Views in my pocket
A folded drawing of a Sulphur-crested cockatoo
A folded drawing of a Southern boobook owl
A folded drawing of an Australian Pelican
A KEY TO HELP MAKE YOUR OWN WORLD VISIBLE
An amalgam of sentiment and prose pulled from the pages of Hermann Hesse’s novel Der Steppenwolf (1927).
Craft Victoria
THREE ZINES, 2009
A vagary of impediments & a sneak of weasels
Tweak, Tweaked, Tweet
Tumble & Fall
Including
Space Invaders, National Gallery of Australia (2011)
Prima Facie, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK (2021)
THREE ZINES, 2009
Summertime: And the livin’ is easy, just as Ella & Louis sang
Just the two of us: A fine pair
A Single Thought
THREE EXHIBITIONS, 2008–2009
Borrow, Off the Kerb
I Feel Fine, Milly Sleeping
The Last Hurrah!, Imp Gallery
A SERIES OF FOUR ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2009
Before all colour faded (Ricordo di Genova)
Many tiny potentialities (Københaven)
A view gleaned through looking-glass (London)
Looking only for you (Der Rhein)
A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2009
Primary transport for the dispelling of fallacious beliefs
Blinking in the light (Grand Saint Bernard et son hospice)
More than I was led to believe (Amsterdam)
Spending the night (Hotel Stenton, Philadelphia)
Exhausting all possible avenues (Abbay d'Aulne, Bruxelles)
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)
POSTCARDS FROM…
Postcards from... A key to help make your own world visible (2009)
Postcards from... But for the moon nobody could see us (2008)
Postcards from... A trapdoor in every room (2007)
Postcards from... If we stand very still, no one will notice (2007)
Including
Melissa Cadden, Postcards from other worlds, The Eloquent Page: The National Library of Australia, 2011
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)
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
A SERIES OF FIVE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2008
Objects gathered with care from recent reads I–V
A series of five artists’ books exhibited as part of But for the moon nobody could see us.