PAW PAD PATH
Paw Pad Path was selected for the 2018 Libris Awards: Australian Artists’ Book Prize exhibition at Artspace Mackay. Paw Pad Path was acquired by Artspace Mackay.
A PAIR OF SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2017
Your nimble tread
Your untroubled verse
THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
This artists’ book, The Company You Keep, was released into the wild at the 2016 Melbourne Art Book Fair at the National Gallery of Victoria. In addition, this artists’ book of Yellow-headed parrots and Laughing owls was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria.
PRATTLE, SCOOP, TREMBLING: A FLUTTER OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS
Whether knee-deep in carpet weave or native grass clump, this naturalist's companion is misleading, but its dedication, sincere. Created especially for and exhibited in its entirety as part of Birds: Flight paths in Australian Art at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Including
Leah Muddle, True or False? Milly Sleeping: Quick Interview with Gracia Haby of Gracia & Louise, 2017
CLOSER TO NATURAL
In continuation of a theme explored for Animal Instinct (2016), thirteen costumed Salvaged Relatives on cartes de visite have been paired with drawings of the same collage element in a new and arguably more natural setting.
Including
Printing the Page, State Library Victoria (2016)
A DECK OF SALVAGED RELATIVES
In a borrowed costume from Pulcinella, deigned by Giorgio de Chirico, 1932, with a Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) looking to form a charm and others.
SALVAGED RELATIVES, 2014–2015
Salvaged Relatives, edition I
Salvaged Relatives, edition II
Salvaged Relatives, edition III
FOLLOWING THE SOFT PERCUSSION OF YOUR TREAD
An artists’ book twenty-six pages in length, made especially for the National Gallery of Victoria’s inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair, NGV International, May 2015, which at first glance appears to take place in several of the 15,000 rooms of the Château de Fontainebleau.
Including
Gracia & Louise on making artists’ book, State Library Victoria (2015)
BLURRED AND DISTINCT
A suite of seventeen collages made especially for and exhibited as part of In Your Dreams (Counihan Gallery, 2014), and accompanying dream text, assembled in a handmade Solander box guarded by Petrouchka. This artists’ book is now in the collection of State Library Victoria.
TUMBLING LIGHTLY, TUMBLING FAST
A pair of artists’ books made especially for and exhibited as part of In Your Dreams (Counihan Gallery, 2014), which takes place in the Palace of Versailles, a royal château in the Île-de-France region of France, and is now in for the collection of Monash University Library (Caulfield Campus).
A TRIO OF STORY BOOKS, 2014
Under the water, with a two-colour eye-glass, something similar
As if from the clouds, restless
The Loon of Swan Hill seeks an audience
A YEAR OF SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE BIRDS
In Louise Jennison’s A Year of Southern Hemisphere Birds unique state artists’ book, twelve birds are brought together and their portraits hand-drawn for posterity.
BENEATH THE SCREEN OF CLOSED EYELIDS
Made especially for and exhibited as part of Charms of the Gloaming (2012), this collaborative hand-bound concertina artists’ book, Beneath the screen of closed eyelids (Port-Said), features twelve hand-coloured scenic views of Port-Said each with collage elements.
A TRIO OF KING PENGUINS, 2012
Testing the laws of hazard
This is where the dormouse lives
A headdress to show you how much I care
A PAIR OF SCENIC VIEWS, 2012
All that’s bewitching by the water (Capri)
And with that, she sets off on the journey home
A TRIO OF SCENIC VIEWS, 2012
With you my destiny I’d steal (Venezia)
A different picture with every look (Kjøbenhavn)
To spend a quiet day (Interlaken Berner Oberland)
A PAIR OF SCENIC VIEWS, 2012
Copenhagen Extension
Among such company
A SET OF THREE ARTISTS’ BOOKS, 2011–2012
An unexpected gathering
For Martha
A meeting of parrots that shouldn’t
IN PADOVA LOOKING FOR YOU
In Padova, looking for you was created especially for Milly Sleeping’s Loved & Lost Society.
Including
The Melbourne Design Guide, edited by Viviane Stappmanns of Alphabet Press, 2009–2011
MODIFICATIONS IN PICTORIAL EDUCATION
Modifications in pictorial education (I)
Modifications in pictorial education (II)