BUT FOR THE MOON NOBODY COULD SEE US
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

30th of August – 21st of September, 2008

Imp Gallery
above Greville St Bookstore
145 Greville St, Prahran

Visual Arts
The Sunday Age, M, Sunday, September 7, 2008

Evidently the moon had its crepuscular rays trained upon IMP gallery last week, because I could see this exhibition as soon as I walked in the door. Gracia Haby and Louis Jennison use paper as their primary medium, presenting collage, watercolours, lithographic offset prints and artist books in this new show. It's lovely, and there's not much more to say. OK then, lovely in the way that old Europe is lovely. Nice like a pair of Turkish slippers and a postcard in the mail. Quirky like a leopard in a lounge-room full of antiques. Unlike other collaborative duos, Haby and Jennison don't manifest a productive tension. They manifest productive agreement - that vintage postcards are good, but they're even better with a cut-out beaver stuck on. That wordy titles are charming; Something mighty peculiar was afoot but I was hard-pressed to say for certain what it was.

Penny Modra


Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Proving to one and all that a body really was just an assemblage of bits and pieces stacked one on top of the other.
2008
from the artists' book And we stood alone in the silent night