Tumbling
Tumbling
Exquisitely
Transitorily
Visible as connected squares on our instagram profile, this chance to create something playful in celebration of impermanence was sparked by a landscape banded in three parts and big top tomfoolery with components plucked from collages created for the La Trobe Journal and Imprint magazine last year. As so often befits work made for own amusement (as deadlines loom large), it quickly grew to include a spray of flowers tucked behind the ear disturbed by a mouse, an amorous pair of Passenger pigeons momentarily separated, and a troublesome trio.
Catch them as they tumble, and (sometimes) divide.
(Related: The grid, the beautiful grid, always, All breathing in heaven (Geelong Gallery, 2013) and By This Unwinking Night (LaTrobe Gallery, 2012))
Image credit: John Cimon Warburg, Margate beach, blue girl, Autochrome Lumière, 1915
I have been collaborating with Louise Jennison since 1999, making artists’ books, collages, large-scale installations, prints, drawings, zines, and various tales. Besotted still, it appears, with paper for its adaptable, concealable, revealing nature, we use an armoury of play, the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you into our A(rtists’ books) to Z(ines).
As artists and wildlife carers, our practice frequently concerns the natural world, addressing themes of conservation and biodiversity. Our home-based studio is also home to our wildlife shelter, Tiny but Wild.
I collage with words about dance for Fjord Review.