GRACIA + LOUISE

THOSE TWO DARING PIRATES
launched at
Hound Dog's Bop Shop
313 Victoria Street, West Melbourne
6 - 7.30pm
Friday 26th of November, 2004

With live New Orleans songs by The Pelican Duet... and serves of hot red beans & rice.

Those Two Daring Pirates
Artists' book single color lithographic offset print hand colored with pencil on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper.

18cm x 18cm twenty two page concertina, bound in cotton by the artists.
Printed by Redwood Prints.
Edition of 30 with one artists' proof, 2004.

Editions 1-10 housed in a painted screen board slip box with New Orleans themed collage along the spine by Peter Haby.

{Images from top to bottom, left to right, page details from an edition of Those Two Daring Pirates.}

Those Two Daring Pirates was launched in West Melbourne at Hound Dog's Bop Shop, a record shop specialising in original and reissues of rock & roll, rockabilly, hillbilly, country, blues, soul, jive and boogie. It was later exhibited as part of The Banyule City Council Works on Paper Art Award 2005.

Huge thanks to The Pelican Duet for the music, Denys Williams for the venue, Elaine Haby for the serves of red beans & rice and Peter Haby for the New Orleans themed collage along the spine of the slip box.