THE BIG ISSUE, 2017–2019
1/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Through a forest
2018
Collage created for The Big Issue magazine
No 587
17th of May – 30th of May, 2019
A collaborative collage created to accompany Raphaelle Race’s ‘Trees of Life’ article about Sophie Cunningham’s City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest on page 30.
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Humans and trees share an ability to communicate. Trees release hormones and pheromones. So do we. We speak words, they pass sugars to each other using fungal filaments. You can read relationship in the way they grow and sway together, the way they weave around each other, the way their roots reach out to each other, the way their crowns meet overhead.
Sophie Cunningham
‘Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia)’, City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest (Melbourne: Text Publishing) page 5.
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2/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Memory
2009
Collage created for The Big Issue magazine
No 581
22nd of February – 7th of March, 2019
A collaborative collage and elements created to accompany Suxi Fox’s ‘A Small Slice of Peace’ on pages 24–25, using a treasured family photo courtesy of Shirley Macey.
As ever, we created a handful of collages for The Big Issue to pick from to accompany the piece.
3/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
The year that was
2011
Collages created for The Big Issue magazine
Love Summer
No 552
26th of December, 2017 – 11th of January, 2018
Collaborative collages to Chris Kennett’s look at 2017, ‘The Good, the Bad and the Donald’ on pages 14–15.
As is our method, we created a series of collages for The Big Issue to pick from to accompany the piece.
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4/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
In hand, in mind
2011
Collages created for The Big Issue magazine
No 542
28th of July – 10th of August, 2017
Collaborative collages created to accompany to accompany Big Issue vendor Sharon’s written piece, ‘View from the Street’.
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So many people feel it’s not their problem, so why bother? Why worry about the less privileged, the poor, the homeless, the drug addicts and alcoholics, the mentally ill and those needing a hand up? But you never know when you are talking with angels. The Big Issue gives me the wherewithal to accomplish my good Samaritan feats.
Sharon
’View from the Street’
The Big Issue, 2017, pages 18–19
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5/ Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
In the garden with you
2017
Collage created for The Big Issue magazine
No 538
2nd of June – 15th of June, 2017
Collaborative collage and elements to illustrate Suvi Mahonen’s written piece, ‘Parks and Recreation: A plan to pretty up an empty lot turns into something much bigger’, about the Rollo Meyers Park in the Gold Coast, which was established by Rollo and Christine Meyers. The garden is the embodiment of the words of poet Helen Steiner Rice: “the more you give the more you get” (pages 26–27).
