SOMETHING REVERBERATED
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SOMETHING REVERBERATED

There were once trees growing under the roads. There are still creeks flowing beneath the directional pathways we’ve imposed.

An artists’ book to take you within the forest, created especially for Biosphere.

Including
Biosphere — a sense of belonging catalogue essays by Felicity Spear and Penelope Gebhardt, 2021–2022

Inspired by the Collection, as part of World of the Book, Dome Galleries, State Library Victoria, 2024–2025

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WITH WINGS OUTSTRETCHED AND QUIVERING
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WITH WINGS OUTSTRETCHED AND QUIVERING

Empty the room. View it from the outside in. Brick by brick. Twig by twig. At the beginning: what is there?

An artists’ book featuring variations of the original Bowerbird collages we created especially for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower.

Including
Inspired by the Collection, as part of World of the Book, Dome Galleries, State Library Victoria, 2024–2025
Paper Universe: The book as art, Galleries, State Library of NSW, 2025–2026

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IN LOCKDOWN PROJECTS, 2021
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IN LOCKDOWN PROJECTS, 2021

Melbourne City of Literature Office: Hooded plover, Wildlife Postcards

Melbourne City of Literature Office: writers in residence, one-day, social media takeover

The Overwintering Project: With a slow and deliberate wing beat

Including
Q & A for RMIT University School of Art student Kasandra Hendy, 2022

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BOWER
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BOWER

We were commissioned to create artwork for Genevieve Lacey’s Bower, “a project inspired by bowerbirds’ obsessive collecting habits, and their ability to build magical architecture out of fragments”.

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TWO ZINES, 2021
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TWO ZINES, 2021

A pair of zines, What if we saw, while out walking (I)
and (II), for you to download, print, splice, fold, share, especially for the 2021 Sticky Institute Festival of the Photocopier.

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IN LOCKDOWN PROJECTS, 2020
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IN LOCKDOWN PROJECTS, 2020

Pollinator outline, for the 2020 RMIT Print Exchange Portfolio

Live in-studio artist visit, in conversation with Jess Cole, Assistant Curator, Prints and Drawings, at NGV

Including
“I was curious and amused — a night parrot, a marmoset and a bilby each side-eyed me back from three different zines”
Zoë Sadokierski, EXTRA!EXTRA!, 2020

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REMOTE RESIDENCY 2020, UWE, BRISTOL, UK
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REMOTE RESIDENCY 2020, UWE, BRISTOL, UK

A pair of zines made-in-iso for you to download, print, fold, splice, share, to accompany a display of our zines and artists’ books in the cases of the Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, UK.

In the MET there is a “Pit from a Balanites tree with a hole caused by a rodent”, ca. 2381–2323 B.C., Old Kingdom, on view in Gallery 100.

We have been looking at you the wrong way round. We still do. To the gardeners of the sky.

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THROUGH A GLASS EYE
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THROUGH A GLASS EYE

This body of prints was produced with APW Printers at Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, as part of Australian Print Workshop’s French Connections project curated by APW Director Anne Virgo OAM.

Including,
Dark Horse: Wild Beasts and Curious Creatures, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2020
The Natural World, Australian Print Workshop, 2021
Call and response, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2022
Significant Others, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, 2023–2024
Terrain, Australian Print Workshop, 2024–2025

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IT CAME LIKE LIGHT OUT OF THE WALLS
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IT CAME LIKE LIGHT OUT OF THE WALLS

Things evolve, it’s what they do. True to the word’s Latin origin, they roll. As such, our 15-metre wall collage, Ripples in the Open, exhibited at ArtSpace Realm, Victoria (2018–2019) in one ‘finished’ guise, has grown into It came like light out of the walls, a series of collaged drawings for West Gallery Thebarton, South Australia.

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