THE PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION
Cutting the Collection
Thumb Through
ON THE VERGE FESTIVAL, 2016
In the windows of Obus Clothing and Collected Works bookstore as part of BLINDSIDE’s experimental art festival of chance encounters, immersive soundscapes and intimate creative exchanges.
FIVE PROJECTS, 2008–2016
Milly Sleeping: SHOE
Milly Sleeping: Ornament
The Australian Ballet: What is Beauty?
Dear you
A skulk of foxes and a husk of hares
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.
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
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
THREE COMMISSIONS, 2013–2015
Cover collage created for the Creating and Collecting: Artists’ Books in Australia issue of the State Library Victoria’s La Trobe Journal
Three collages created for MIEL books special edition of their journal 1110/5
Artwork created for Objects of Affection
IMPRINT, 2015
Cover image for the Collaboration issue of the Print Council of Australia’s Imprint magazine (Autumn 2015, Volume 50, Number 1) featuring a Giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) in John Soane’s courtyard.
Including
Dr Olivia Meehan, The Poetic Partnership: the work of Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison, 2015
SIX DIGITAL PROJECTS, 2009–2015
RemixVic
Onwards
To good year’s end
Celebration
Could be me
Transit Lounge: Moving While Standing Still and other projects
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
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2015
Salvaged Relatives, red edition
Salvaged Relatives, yellow edition
Salvaged Relatives, blue edition
Salvaged Relatives, boxed
SIX EXHIBITIONS, 2014–2015
Beastarium
Beastly
Good Mail Day
100 Cats
PAGE.PRINT.POST: 50 Years of Artists Books
Bimblebox 153 Birds
MATERIALITY, 2012–2015
Number 1: BOOK
Number2: TIME
Number 3: PRECIOUS
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)
A CATALOGUE OF BODIES
A Catalogue of Bodies harvested from the television adaptations (1989-2013) of Agatha Christie’s stories featuring Hercule Poirot as played by David Suchet.
First edition, 2012
Second edition, 2014
SIX FOLDED ZINES, 2012–2014
Nuit Noir
Four Rainbow Lorikeets (Trichoglossus haematodus) who visited my garden one summer’s day
38.1500° S, 144.3500° E
Lunch
A beating of wings (I)
A beating of wings (II)