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