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Gracia Haby

Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
The Company You Keep
2016
Artists’ book, unique state, featuring 15 individual collages on cabinet cards with pencil (by Gracia Haby)
Housed in a linen Solander box (bound by Louise Jennison)

 

GRACIA HABY

MARGINALIA, as the name suggests, is a space for those things ‘in the margins’ of Gracia & Louise.

Having outgrown my space, High Up in the Trees (2006–2016), here, in the wings, something of a collaged extension.

I have been collaborating with Louise Jennison for over twenty years (since 1999), making artists’ books, zines, collages, stories, prints, and drawings. Besotted still, it appears, with paper for its adaptable, foldable, cut-able, concealable, revealing nature, using an armoury of play, the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you into our A(rtists’ books) to Z(ines).

Our work can be found in the collections of: Art Gallery of Ballarat; Artspace Mackay; Banyule City Council; Burnie Regional Art Gallery; City of Whitehorse; Charles Sturt University; Deakin University Library; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery; Gold Coast City Art Gallery; Latrobe Regional Gallery; Maroondah City Council; Melbourne Museum; Melbourne University Library; Monash University Library; Moreland Art Collection; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery; National Gallery of Australia; National Gallery of Victoria; National Library of Australia; Print Council of Australia; RMIT University Library; Royal Perth Hospital; State Library of New South Wales; State Library of Victoria; State Library of Queensland; University of Wollongong; Warrnambool Art Gallery; Tate (UK); University of the West of England (UK); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (USA); and private collections.

Our work has been commissioned by: Ace Hotel; The Australian Ballet; Australian Poetry; The Big Issue; Fjord Review; Genevieve Lacey; Maroondah City Council; Melbourne Chamber Orchestra; Melbourne City of Literature; National Gallery of Victoria; State Library Victoria; and The World of Interiors.

I have been writing for Fjord Review since 2012. Fjord Review is an international online and print review of ballet and dance, edited by Penelope Ford.

And because all things are connected, alongside our work, Louise and I, after being foster carers for RSPCA Victoria (2017–2021) and Grey-headed flying-fox carers for Bat Rescue Bayside (2020–2023), are Tiny but Wild, a wildlife shelter for all things tiny but wild, specialising in Grey-headed flying foxes.