BY THE PRICKING OF MY CLAWS
Exhibited as part of Ex Libris
Project Space, 23–27 Cardigan Street, Carlton
Monday 28th November – Friday 16th of December, 2005

By the Pricking of My Claws
Artists' book single color lithographic offset print hand colored with pencil, pen and collage on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper.

18cm X18cm eight page concertina, bound in cotton by the artists, with engraved mirrored perspex discs on the cover.
Printed by Redwood Prints.
Edition of 16, 2005.

List of animals featured
White-footed Rabbit-rat
Last seen: 1845
Distribution: South Eastern Australia

Bavarian pine-vole
Rediscovered: 2000, Northern Tyrol, Austria, after an absence of 38 years

Bulldog rat
Last seen: about 1903
Distribution: Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

Ivory-billed woodpecker
Rediscovered: 2004, in the Big Woods of Eastern Arkansas, United States of America, after an absence of 60 years

Lesser stick-nest rat
Last seen: afternoon 18th July 1933
Distribution: Southern inland Australia

Pig-footed bandicoot
Last seen: 1901
Distribution: inland Australia


Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
By the Pricking of My Claws
2005
artists' book