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CZECH AND SLOVAK FILM FESTIVAL 2016

A selection of our collages and drawings created in response to the festival's theme Text and Texture, exhibited as part of BETWIXT, curated by Carmen Reid, at ACMI Mediatheque, at ACMI.

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A PAIR OF SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2017

Your nimble tread

Your untroubled verse

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FIVE ZINES, 2016

The Company You Keep

Whiskers and Bristles

Dear Tails

You and Me

Salvaged Relatives in Seven Costumes

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THE PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTION

Cutting the Collection

Thumb Through

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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.

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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

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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.

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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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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)

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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)

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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

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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.

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FIVE FOLDED ZINES, 2015

A Company of Parrots

Whoot-woo

Birds with tremendous beaks

A charm of finches

Shaped like that of an egg

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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

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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

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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

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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