Click here to view more images of Nicholas Jones & Warren Harrison's exhibition Without Bias, held at Craft Victoria in Gallery 3 from 12 March to 24 April.Photography: Lily Feng
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A while back (um, quite a while) Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison held an evening workshop on how to make a concertina fold notebook. It's always so lovely, and not to mention great fun as well, when artists host workshops!Here are some images from the event: Photography: Kim Brockett
Inspired by Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Der Steppenwolf Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison present a new collection of artist books, fine lithographic offset prints and other works on paper.In Der Steppenwolf the ‘Magic Theatre’ is a hallucinatory, parallel world controlled by saxophone player, Pablo: “I can throw open to you no picture-gallery but your own soul,” he tells the suffering protagonist Harry, “All I can give you is the opportunity, the impulse, the key. I help you to make your own world visible. That is all.” Taking its cue from Hesse’s surrealistic landscape, A Key to Help Make Your Own ...
Especially for you, a collection housed.A view gleaned through looking-glass.A concept favourable or perhaps not, we’ll leave that up to you, either way, what took two days to install took but two leisurely hours to take apart, pack up and leave gallery space bare, signage and all.We so enjoyed our time in beauteous confines of gallery two. Equally so our time spent here. Thanks for having us. We have enjoyed having a lend of your ear.G & L
Taken Easter 1979 in St Arnaud (Victoria) with Dixie. I am almost four years of age.It is the layout I remember first, the long passageways created. When I think of my grandparents’ garden in St Arnaud, it is a garden laid out in three long rows, allowing you to walk the length of the bed from either side, picking peas or hoeing turnips. A grapevine that ran the length of the three sides framed the garden whole, a neat belt to its green corridors. It may not have been so. It may not have been quite so long. For that ...
Ready to give help.Those familiar with my place high up in the trees and whom may also have glanced of late at the pages of my artists’ books and postcard collages know that there feature many animals, many birds. My tailed or feathered protagonists often out of place, oft too large for their present surrounds. They scale rooftops, climb cathedral spires; perch high on the mast of a ship on maiden voyage do my central characters. Sometimes they saunter nonchalantly past a city square. Sometimes they tiptoe or creep. And all the time they afford me chance not just ...
All memory of that night shone before fading. (2009)On now in Gallery 2 of Craft Victoria is a collaboration between artists Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison that presents a wunderkammer of paintings, prints, collage, postcards and artist books.A show that centres on themes of nostalgia, love and introspection, the title comes from words in Hermann Hesse’s 1927 novel Der Steppenwolf and the artists have created artefacts based on the story’s sense of longing and displacement. The result is an alternate universe of fantastic curiosities, of pain and dreams made flesh.The ideas come together most successfully in the lithographs which take ...
This evening, however, I am thinking of things past is twelve page concertina bound artists’ book of Gracia’s and mine. A four-colour lithographic offset print, each page has been reworked in colour pencil, adding detail to the green faces of the pair of Shell masks from Manfredo Settala’s (1600–1680) own cabinet of curiosities. On Fabriano bright white 300gsm paper, the book, an edition of twelve, is housed in a balsa wood case. It sits on a sunlit shelf in the gallery, and these are a few page details from said book.I hope you like them, and I look forward to ...
On such a day as this the view proved of great comfort.Thou should not vex a stranger.Sunday morning and the wonder that is Google earth has me entranced still, and spooked, if I am honest, just a little. In my palm, I have the globe. It sits in other people’s palms too, and this technology is, it seems, doing my head in. I can drop a pin on my next destination; I can see just how very far the French Quarter is from my door (the place I last travelled across the seas to). I can map, track, zoom in ...
All memory of that day sparkled right and unchanging. (2009)Seems an age since we set to installing our show in gallery two of Craft Victoria but the calendar hanging upon my wall tells me otherwise. Seems it has not been that long at all. This is a good thing for we’ve been invited by the ever kind and ever knowledgeable folk at Craft Victoria to pen a few guest posts for the duration of our exhibition, the one with the long name that borrows directly from two sentences featured in the work of a favourite author.Today we held true to ...
A selection of designers have made work responding to the notion of interior and domestic space. Drawing from the methodologies of both design and the handmade, the exhibition showcases work by some of Australia's most eminent emerging and established designers: Tim Fleming, Erik North , Studio Hip (Damien Hipwell and Jacqueline Cuijpers) and Studio Sam (Samantha Parsons). The installation will explore the strategy of 'sampling' as both a basis for design and a new critique of the interior. Acorns by Tim Fleming of Flatland OKFully Furnished was part of the 2009 State of Design Festival’s public and cultural program, ...
Exhibition dates: 18th June – 11th July, 2009 . Many thankx to Warren from The Narrows for supplying and allowing me to use images 1, 2 and 4. Photographs 1, 2 and 4 are © Tobias Titz 2009. . . Installation view of ‘LE MONDE v. DER MOND’ by Matthew Hale at The Narrows, Melbourne . . Matthew Hale ‘Page 150 of MIRIAM DIVORCEE’ (detail) 2008 . . Below is the only text I could find on the work – some of which was displayed in London earlier this year. . “DER MOND v LE MONDE is Mathew Hale’s first solo exhibition in London for five years. It consists of five works: one two-projector and one ...
This week, CLOG is very proud to feature Brydie Dyson, one of COUNTER's stockists and one of Melbourne's nicest people. Using fibre art and paper as her main medium, Brydie tucks, folds and sews her chosen material into some of the loveliest objet d'art we've ever seen.When she's not busy crafting away, Brydie manages a beautiful shop in Olinda called MINE, which according to her is "ethical and creative space that harbours the passions of crafters, artists and designers who create well-made children's goods."Sounds divine!Without further ado, please read away and be sure to check out Brydie's blog - it's ...
Currently in COUNTER at the moment are some lovely paper necklaces by Gallery 2 exhibitor Natasha Dusenjko.They come in 3 lengths - 290mm, 600mm and 680mm - and are priced between $85 and $155.You know you want one...
