GRACIA + LOUISE

GRACIA HABY
1975, Melbourne, Australia

1994 - 96 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts (Painting)
1997 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Honours (Painting)
2002 Centro Del Bel Libro, Ascona, Switzerland, Innovative Book Constructions

Artists' book launches & collaborative exhibitions with Louise Jennison
2007
A trapdoor in every room, IMP, Melbourne
If we stand very still, no one will notice, Mailbox 141, Melbourne
2004 Those Two Daring Pirates, Hound Dog's Bop Shop, Melbourne
2003 Melbourne in 31 days and 30 days in Vienna, Victoria Room, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne
2001
101 ways to get to your favoured destination and Snug as a bug in a rug, Craft Victoria, Gallery 3, Melbourne
The ermines tea party - one weekend and The kingdom of the blue poppy - as made for Sinclare, Guy May Bonsai, Melbourne
Nao falo Portugese, Portuguese Consulate, Melbourne
2000 This morning I went into the garden, Newry street, Melbourne
1999 01.02.99 - 19.02.99, Gallery 3 and cabinets, Linden Gallery, Melbourne

Selected group exhibitions
2008
2008 Libris Awards - The Australian Artists' Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland
Secrets of the Photocopier, Platform, Melbourne
The Space in Between, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria
2007
Books 07: Works of Imagination, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland
The Space in Between, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2006
Mirror of the World: Books & Ideas, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Dervish, IMP, Melbourne
Lexicon, Gallery @ City Library, Melbourne
2006 Libris Awards - The Australian Artists' Book Prize, Artspace Mackay, Queensland
2005
Ex Libris, RMIT Project Space/Spare Room and RMIT Visual Arts Summer Studio Residency Fundraiser and Exhibition, Melbourne
Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award 2005, Melbourne
Print Out: An exhibition of fine original prints from the Burnie Regional Art Gallery's Permanent Collection, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
2004
Counter Productive, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
The Found Project, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria
Compendium, Icon Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
2003
Act XII: new works on paper, George Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne. Touring to UTS Gallery, University of Technology, Sydney and Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre, South Australia
Second Freedman Foundation Exhibition, Sir Hermann Black Gallery, University of Sydney, NSW
Compendium, Platform, Melbourne
2002
Shell Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre, Western Australia
2002 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
Global Fusion, Federal Chancellery, Department for the Arts, Kunstraum Palais Porcia and Wienstation, Vienna, Austria
Uno - one unique object, Craft Victoria, Melbourne
2000
2000 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria
@ global city, Public Office and urbanart transport shelters, Melbourne
Blink, ACCA, Melbourne
1999
The Image Reflected, Platform, Melbourne
Cultivated sphere of events, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria
1998
It's a Girls World, Temple, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
Silent Fall, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1997
Girls in Melbourne, Platform, Melbourne
Naked, Stripp, Melbourne
Artline 1997, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1996
Graduate Exhibition, RMIT Bdg 2, Melbourne
Times five, Monash University, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne

Zines & Projects
2008
Small Collection, printed zine
Have Wheels, Will Go, zine made in collaboration with 31 others
Three in the Kitchen, zine made in collaboration with Shari Altman and Louise Jennison
What do you think?, printed zine
2007
Postcards from... (If we stand very still, no one will notice), printed zine
2006
How to... (spot a phoney fossil), zine made in collaboration with Louise Jennison
Geschlecht und Schoklade, zine made in collaboration with Gaby Bila Gunther and Louise Jennison
2005
Imagined Travels, collaborative web zine
2004
Omar & Olive - chinese whispers with other creatures they meet wandering through their dreams, two versions, web zine & printed zine
Omar & Olive - what they'd really like in their friskies feast cat food, web zine
2003
My Beautiful Laundrette, collage installation, Eco-Express Waschsalon, Berlin, Germany
Where does the muskrat keep his musk?, zine made in collaboration with Elaine Haby and Louise Jennison
Looking out the window, zine made in collaboration with Louise Jennison and Barbara Wolters
Money: does it always make the world go around? cheque book zine made in collaboration with Louise Jennison, edition of two. As part of Soho in Ottakring, Vienna, Austria
2002
Everything between home & work, zine made in collaboration with Shannon Bracken, Martin Checklin and Louise Jennison
Family in Melbourne, Melbourne Vox Pops, urbanart project
Is there kunst in the house, zine made in collaboration with Gaby Bila Gunther and Louise Jennison

Grants / Scholarships
2004 Print Council of Australia Print Commission
2002 Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists
2000 Australia Council for the Arts, New Work, Emerging Artist

Private & Public Collections
Artspace Mackay, Banyule City Council, Bibliotheca Librorum Apud Artificem, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Camberwell Grammar, City of Whitehorse, Charles Sturt University, Ergas Collection, Gladstone Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Lauriston Girls' School, Monash University, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Print Council of Australia, Royal Perth Hospital, RMIT Library, St Michael's Grammar, State Library of Victoria, Tintern Girls Grammar School, University of Wollongong, Vermont Secondary College, Warrnambool Art Gallery and Private Collections

Residencies / Employment
2007 How I entered there I cannot truely say, Collaborative works from the ANU Edition + Artist Book Studio, Words and Images: Examining the artist book, symposium, SLV, Melbourne
2004 - 05 Summer Studios @ 66 (Formally Project Space/Visual Arts Summer Residency programme), RMIT, Melbourne
2003 - 08 Sessional staff, RMIT, Department of Art, Melbourne
2002 Visiting guest speaker, RMIT, Department of Art, Melbourne

Publications / Catalogues
Charlotte Francis, Towards new trains of thought, A2, The Age 15/03/08
Jurate Sasnaitis, Ravening/Ravelling/Revelling, Book Arts newsletter, UWE Bristol, Number 40, March/April 2008
Millie Ross, Zine Scene, Yen magazine, Issue 29, 2007
Sarah Bodman, Book Arts newsletter, UWE Bristol, Number 38, November/December 2007
Megan Backhouse, Around the galleries, The Age, 10/03/07
Jazmina Cininas, Tall tales and antipodean adventures: narratives in contemporary Australian printmaking, Imprint Journal, volume 41, Winter 2006
Jazmina Cininas, Ex Libris catalogue essay, 2005
Jurate Sasnaitis, Those Two Daring Pirates artists' book review, Poster Magazine, Issue Eight, Autumn 2005
Louise Tegart, The FOUND Project exhibition review, Imprint Journal, Summer 2004
Robert Nelson, Documenting the everyday, A3, The Age, 24/09/04
Penelope Trotter, The FOUND Project catalogue essay, 2004
Cover & Lesley Harding, From mise-en-scene to mise-en-page, Imprint Journal, Volume 38, Spring 2003
Lesley Harding, Marita Smith, Act XII: new works on paper catalogue essay, 2003
Lucinda Strahan, Act XII: new works on paper exhibition review, The Age, 29/05/03
Fiona O'Doherty, Artists take a fantasy journey, Yarra Leader, 12/05/03
Megan Backhouse, Paper-art Awards set to fold, The Age, 30/04/03
Von Almuth Spiegler, Global Fusion 2002, Die Presse, Kultur/Medien, 25/02/02
Georgia Cribb, One month - Melbourne & Vienna catalogue essay, 2002
Megan Backhouse, Have Freedman, will travel, The Age, 14/11/01
Georgia Cribb, It's a Girls World catalogue essay, 1998
Robert Rooney, Shock of the new heightened by delve into past, The Australian, 15/05/98
The Main Event, Malvern Prahran Leader, 22/05/98
Brendan Wall, Silent Fall catalogue essay, 1998
Colin Shingleton, Artline 1997 catalogue essay, 1997

{Image left The wolf assisted me in my own great train robbery, from All the discarded things, mended. by Gracia, exhibited at IMP gallery May, 2007.}