About this Artwork
Collaboratively, Haby and Jennison construct miniature worlds that seek to eke out a space removed from its original context. Incorporating elements of collage and photomontage, alongside watercoloured forms both real and imagined, in these three posters created for Moving Galleries. A lone penguin in search of a new home, a singular fisherman seeking a new beginning, can be seen in ‘You know this isn’t the way home, don’t you?’; one of the first photographs of the Antarctic icebergs can be seen in ‘First time ever I saw you (Antarctica)’, and finally Nikolai Sutyagin’s actual thirteen-storey dacha in Arkhangelsk, Russia, with three potential new inhabitants from the animal kingdom, displaced and in search of a new home can be spied in ‘My dacha is 3 storeys higher than yours’.
Email: gracialouise@optusnet.com.au
About Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison work together as a collaborative duo on various joint ventures, and have been doing so since 1999. Using paper as their primary medium to create an ongoing series of limited edition artists' books, several lithographic offset prints, and even sculptural objects folded, cut and molded into shape, as well as a host of zines created on the photocopy machine. We have exhibited together and separately, both locally, in Melbourne, and abroad, upon occasion. We were awarded the Australia Council for the Arts, New Work for Emerging Artists grant in 2000, and the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship for Emerging Artists in 2002; two grants that both financially assisted and further propelled our interest in the medium of artists’ books. Our work can be found in various collections. The State Library of Victoria has a set of all of our artists’ books to date, as well as several one-of-a-kind books. They also have a complete set of all of our low tech zines made on the photocopy machine, usually under the fluorescent lights of Officeworks. You will also find our collaborative work, both artists’ books and other works on paper, in the collections of the Print Council of Australia, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Ergas Collection, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Melbourne University, Monash University, RMIT University, University of Wollongong, Warrnambool Art Gallery and many more, as well as in private collections. Together as a team, we construct miniature worlds that seek to eke out a space removed from its original context. It is not unusual to find hidden in our work a spotted oncilla helping a woman untie her eyelashes; a red fox observing the goings on at a refractory in Beirut; or a Hectors dolphin jumping to clearer waters.
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Mailbox 141
Mailbox 141 is an alternative public art space that opened in November 2006 to support artistic experimentation and exhibtion of new work.
Located in the entrance foyer of 141 Flinders Lane - near the corner of Russell Street in the heart of Melbourne’s arts precint - Mailbox invites artists to create site specific work for the strip of restored antique mailboxes. Reminders of our urban heritage, in the midst of the changing corporate streetscape, Mailbox enlivens the imaginative space of the city. Curators, Martina Copley and Shanley McBurney, liaise an intimate, non-commercial space in which to view work by local artists. As part of the diverse network linking art schools, studo artists, artist-run initiatives and business, Mailbox offers another possiblitiy for individual artists to inhabit public space in the city of Melbourne and contributes to an authentic and often unexpected cultural experience for viewers.
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday: 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday: 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Phone
0408 345 491
Address
141 - 143 Flinders Lane
Melbourne Victoria 3000
Australia
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