Piece by leaf
Collections and Fairgrounds
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Restoring corridors
2024
12 double-sided image panel artists’ book with 5 text pages, inkjet print on Canson Arches 88 310gsm, with accompanying narrative, A good soft release site is a connected site (by Gracia Haby), housed in a box with original watercolour cover (by Louise Jennison) on Saunders Waterford Aquarelle 300gsm white hot-press paper
Printed by Arten
Edition of 4
“Artists’ Books are the Trojan horse of the art world... you don’t know exactly what is inside until it is revealed.”
Restoring Corridors, as per Aristotle’s De Anima, has found its natural resting place in the world, where it can be read and where it belongs[i]. We are so incredibly delighted that edition 2/4 of our artists’ book, Restoring Corridors, has been acquired by the Cynthia Sears Collection, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Washington, USA. Wrapped snugly in many, many layers of bubblewrap and cardboard, fashioned from the dense cardboard our computer came in, Restoring Corridors made the journey from North Fitzroy to Washington, earlier on, replete with a peep of a Short-tailed wallaby and a Ringtail’s tale.
This edition of Restoring Corridors is joined by those in our Looped series, from 2017, and the Californian sea lion edition of Because I like you, from 2016. We are utterly over the moon that these works should coalesce into one fantastical collection.
Whether in the Cynthia Sears Collection, or, closer to home, institutions like State Library Victoria et al., it is a beautiful and humbling feeling to have your work be a part of such important, active collections, for the time period they span is far bigger than our own lifespans combined and tripled. Curated, intersecting archives reveal our life to be but a deliciously microscopic inkblot in the grand scheme of things.
The physicality of an artists’ book as it is read is so important, and, to that end, pop along, should you be near, to the eleventh NGV Melbourne Art Book Fair next weekend. Until then, peruse some of the new titles we’ll have available.
Restoring corridors, taken up again
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
2025
12 page, nine-hole pamphlet stitched, artists’ book with fold-out colour image insert, with A good soft release site is a connected site (by Gracia Haby), Indigo Digital CMYK on 150gsm Envirocare + 200gsm Ecostar Silk, with cover, Indigo Digital CMYK on 300gsm Envirocare
Printed by Bambra
Bound by Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, with hand-cut elements
Edition of 100
How will they know there’s no-one left
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
2025
Peep-show artists’ book comprised of seven inkjet prints and five internal sections on Canson Arches 88 310gsm, with concertina wings in Hereford Book & Printmaking 140gsm, capable of expanding to 50cm (when open), with a single view hole to cover, with collapsable curtain opening
Housed in a two-toned paper sleeve, with cutout and adhered paper elements, on Fabriano Tiziano 160gsm (Blue Night) and Stonehenge Cotton Rag 245 gsm (Black)
Printed by Arten
Bound by Louise Jennison, with hand-cut elements
Edition of 10
(Imagined) field notes
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
2025
Indigo Digital print zine
Edition of 75
You can also pre-order editions, with the option of collecting in-person from us at our stall at the fair, through our online store.
Melbourne Art Book Fair
NGV Great Hall
NGV International
180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne
Friday 16th May 10am–5pm
Saturday 17th May 10am–5pm
Sunday 18th May 10am–5pm
See the full list of participating publishers
Kids Pumpkin Storytime
Presented by NGV
Saturday 17th May 10.30–11am
With Gracia & Louise
Free, no booking required
Next weekend will also be your last chance to see our artists’ books, Something reverberated and With wings outstretched and quivering, alongside original source material featured within, before the World of the Book exhibition changeover at the tail end of May, 2025.
World of the Book
Dome Galleries
State Library Victoria
Until Sunday 18th of May
And coming up after that, we’re giving a talk about our work and wildlife at the Castlemaine Press on Sunday 29th of June (link below).
Make your own: paper peep show, V&A
[i] Eva Athanasiu, referencing Aristotle’s The Elements All Have Natural Motion [He 300a20] in ‘Belonging: Artists’ Books and Readers in the Library’, Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America, Vol. 34, No. 2 (September 2015), pp. 330–338, JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/683388, accessed 10th May, 2025.
Image credit: Teleorama No. 1, paper peepshow, published by Heinrich Friedrich Müller, about 1825, Austria, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
