A KEY TO HELP MAKE YOUR OWN WORLD VISIBLE
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

23rd October – 28th November, 2009

Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

A key to help make your own world visible is an amalgam of sentiment and prose pulled from the pages of Hermann Hesse's novel Der Steppenwolf (1927). Spoken in warm voice by Pablo to Harry: 'I can throw open to you no picture-gallery but your own soul. All I can give you is the opportunity, the impulse, the key. I help you to make your own world visible. That is all.' 1

From such we took impulse and created a series of other worlds that lie hidden, other interior worlds viewed with twin 'gleam of pain and beauty that comes from things past'. 2

Read further,
Advice for those curious (exhibition text)

Invitation (pdf)
In review, Dylan Rainforth, The Age
In review, Emma Kirsopp, The Melboure Art Review
In preview, Michi Girl
In preview, Sunday Arts, ABC television
In interview, Inside Out magazine's blog

For a look at the exhibition, from installation, opening night, and the inevitable deinstall, head to our blogs, elsewhere and high up in the trees. For exhibition's duration we guest blogged on Clog.

1. Hermann Hess, Der Steppenwolf (Australia: Penguin Group, 2009), 204.
2. Ibid., 186.


All memory of that day sparkled right and unchanging (detail)
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
2009
lithographic offset print