Among the trees
Among the birds

Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
With wings outstretched and quivering
18 page concertina artists’ book, inkjet print on Canson Arches 88 310gsm, with accompanying narrative (by Gracia Haby), housed in a box (by Louise Jennison) with original watercolour cover on Saunders Waterford Aquarelle 300gsm white hot-press paper
Printed by Arten
Edition of 2
and
With wings outstretched and quivering
18 page concertina artists’ book, inkjet print on Canson Arches 88 310gsm, with accompanying narrative (by Gracia Haby), housed in a box (by Louise Jennison) with original watercolour cover on Saunders Waterford Aquarelle 300gsm white hot-press paper
Printed by Arten
Edition of 2

We are overjoyed that our long winding, in physical form, tales, With wings outstretched and quivering and Something reverberated, are being kept together as the left hand and the right, the sun and the moon, the trees and the birds. State Library Victoria acquired editions 1/2 of With wings outstretched and quivering and Something reverberated, and the State Library of New South Wales, editions 2/2.

Though these artists’ books can make a line from cover to cover, we feel they can be entered at any point the reader chooses. They can be folded by the double spread, they can be coiled into a spiky circle or a star, depending upon your point of view. These ‘of paper, ink, and glue’ ecosystems, to us, are as cyclical as the earth itself, a circulation of experiences growing on the page. They are our celebration of the green spaces that give us solace. They are a part of our own act of reciprocity for that which continues to restore us.

Nature, at every level, from the smallest winged pieces to the largest parts, is interconnected, like a collage. Like an artists’ book.

Our walks and our artists’ books are becoming an expression of the same thing.

All four artists’ books will soon be making their collective migration from one region to another, now that they have been documented by Tim Gresham. (Thank-you Tim.)

Explore our other artists’ books and zines in State Library Victoria’s collection.
Explore our other artists’ books and zines in State Library of NSW collection.

You can see Something reverberated in the group exhibition, Biosphere, until Saturday the 20th of November. Or rewind to the opening celebration here.

Biosphere
An exhibition curated by Felicity Spear
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Harry Nankin, Felicity Spear, Debbie Symons, Rosie Weiss
Until Saturday 20th of November, 2021
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Room 816, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne

Image credit: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Something reverberated (detail), 2021, artists’ book, photographed by Tim Gresham