(AN INTRODUCTION TO) BY THIS UNWINKING NIGHT
Fiona West, Senior Curator Latrobe Regional Gallery

The world of Gracia & Louise is an elaborate fairytale that transcends all logic of time and truth. Images bounce from past to recent, reality to fiction and come together in a perfectly constructed world, rich in narrative and wonder.

Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison draw inspiration from vintage postcards, old books and wildlife illustrations to create surreal realities in the the form of prints, books, collages and zines. The artists combine incongruous elements from this source material to stage these spectacles, with animals playing the main protagonists. The presence of the animal is fundamental in their work as it is used to express "our very behaviour, those moral principles one governs the self by, and to explore the relationship with the natural world".

Fiona West, 2012
By This Unwinking Night


Louise Jennison
Eclectus Parrots (Eclectus roratus)
2012
drawing