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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

@gracialouise.bsky.social
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We have been collaborating since 1999, making artists’ books and more. Tiny but Wild, wildlife shelter

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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Smoothing a rumple: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/lo... Before the library was officially open to the public, we tiptoed into the dome and restored to order our Looped display in the dais. It is wonderful to have the installation complete once more, as it comes up to its tenth year.
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Smoothing a rumple — Marginalia
Before State Library Victoria was officially open to the public, we tiptoed into the dome, with Sarah Haselton and Albertine Hamilton, and, over talk of Brockhoff Biscuits and horology, we restored to...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Cut and paste, look and draw: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/wo... A new post on Marginalia
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Cut and paste, look and paint. — Marginalia
An absolute joy to conduct two back-to-back workshops, for level 5, in the morning, and levels 4–6, in the afternoon, once more as part of the NGV Creativity Club. Together, we made a pamphlet stitc...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bock, bock, went the Tawny: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ta... (A new post on Marginalia)
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Bock, bock, went the Tawny — Marginalia
In the span of one week, over four separate wildlife care cases, we have crossed paths with four Tawny frogmouths, a native bird whose scientific name, Podargus strigoides, references, in the first pa...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There is up and there is down: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/gr... Centre of Gravity, my response to The Australian Ballet’s Bodytorque 2026, drawn up especially for Fjord Review.
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There is up and there is down — Marginalia
Gravity, physics tells us and the body shows, is a physical force which draws us “towards one another and shapes the way we move through the world”, and whether it is something to “resist, surrender t...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Spring returns and arrivals: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ti... Something new on Marginalia
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Spring returns & arrivals — Marginalia
Coco Spinifex came into care at Tiny but Wild late June, with suspected neurological trauma. Her movements were impaired and she struggled to eat, such was her coordination. We tore up leaves for her ...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
FIELD NOTES is a Dancehouse initiative that commissions writers, academics, artists, and culturally engaged thinkers to produce thoughtful, in-depth reflections on works presented within the Dancehouse program. www.dancehouse.com.au/resources/fi... Photo: Jess Busby
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Head to Dancehouse to continue reading, and to find further FIELD NOTES responses: www.dancehouse.com.au/wp-content/u... Photo: Jeff Busby
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An absolute pleasure to be commissioned by Dancehouse to draw up a response to Alice Dixon's Silver Stocks, as part of FIELD NOTES. ... In the dark, my eyes adjust. I try to see shapes. I am familiar with the space, so I know that it is a large, long hall, with a smaller stage at the end.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Recently landed, two recent Q&As with RMIT School of Art students on Marginalia: A couple of questions(for Genevieve Margeaux) www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/qu... and “Practice any art… to make your soul grow” (for Sam Pattinson) www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/qu...
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A couple of questions — Marginalia
In seeing the world through or at least trying to see the world through another species’ eyes, new visuals emerge and a new sense of what the world can be as well. In working with animals, through our...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The end is the beginning: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/wi... Little more is heartening than seeing, on the trail cameras positioned around the soft-release site, four ringtails, Echo, Periwinkle, Asta, and Gustave cavorting on the roof. They took to the canopy with such ease.
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The end is the beginning — Marginalia
Wildlife care new beginnings
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Leaf through; dream on: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ra... Our first Rare Book Week session had to be Earth, Insect, Beast, to see, with our own eyes the National Gallery of Victoria’s earliest illuminated manuscript, The Gospel of Theophanes (ca. 1125–1150).
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Leaf through; dream on — Marginalia
Our first Rare Book Week session had to be Earth, Insect, Beast, to see, with our own eyes the National Gallery of Victoria’s earliest illuminated manuscript, The Gospel of Theophanes, a Byzantine ren...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Sanctuary: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/sa... Sanctuary Keynote guests: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison Art Education Victoria Presents: Re-assemble Art Education Conference 2026 Storey Hall, RMIT University, Building 16, 336–348 Swanston Street, Melbourne Friday 10th July, 2026
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Sanctuary — Marginalia
Through our artwork and our care work, as artists and wildlife careers, we seek to illuminate the many and wondrous ways in which the more-than-human or the other-than-human beings experience, sense, ...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
While it was earlier than we’d planned, and winter, the possum quartet decided it was time to head to the soft-release site. 'Tiny July' www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ti... Something new to read on Marginalia.
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Tiny July — Marginalia
While it was earlier than we’d planned, and winter, the possum quartet decided it was time to head to the soft-release site. On the calendar, we still had another month, but listening to the possums, ...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My response to The Australian Ballet’s opening night of Copland Dance Episodes, drawn up especially for Fjord Review. 'Green so close to blue it becomes sea green': www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/co... Something new to read on Marginalia.
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Green so close to blue it becomes sea green — Marginalia
The Australian Ballet’s Copland Dance Episodes
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
'What Are They Up To at the State Library of Victoria now?' Gideon Haigh: www.cricketetal.com/p/what-are-t...
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What Are They Up To at the State Library of Victoria now?
GH has an update
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
“The BHL is fundamental to our understanding of all the species that we share this world with, and our ability to save them,” says Nicole Kearney. “We now have 64m pages of knowledge at our fingertips, which we need to make more discoverable and accessible. There’s so much more we could be doing.”
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We have recently received a few questions about our missing artists' book beneath the dome from those curious as to where the work has gone. (In mid 2017, we installed our Looped series of artists’ books in the dais at State Library Victoria.) Disrupted, and how www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/di...
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Disrupted, and how — Marginalia
Such a beautiful central location! We’d thought the greatest threat to our artists’ books, on loan in our Looped display, was light. Sadly, it turns out the greatest threat was a member of the public ...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Peach Velvet farewells: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/fa... (A new post on Marginalia)
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Fare thee well, Artie — Marginalia
A bright, intense though all too fleeting spark, sadly we have had to say goodbye to our beloved ‘foster fail’, wise soul, dear, dear Arthur. As soon as he met us in the consulting rooms at the RSPCA,...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
“Gregarious. Fan-shaped fruiting bodies” www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ev... A new post on Marginalia
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“Gregarious. Fan-shaped fruiting bodies” — Marginalia
Can we dream it? and Can we dream it? enquired the lantern bugs
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Book Arts Newsletter No 172, April - June 2026 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 60 pages of artists' books news and opportunities. Cover artist for this issue: Angelo Ricciardi for World Book Night 2026 Next deadline: 15th June for the July – August newsletter.
The cover image and front page of the Book Arts Newsletter with two images of mountains by Angelo Ricciardi on a blue background - text reads The Mountains are Calling.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
A fleeting sense of, revisited: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/re... Something new on Marginalia
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A fleeting sense of, revisited — Marginalia
We have been busy extending the scene of a recent Scott Alley collage commission, A fleeting sense of, especially for a forthcoming exhibition. We have been growing the landscape to accommodate a trio...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
All love for the brilliant Tawny. www.instagram.com/p/DRbsHMYD5RO/
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
O! Just spotted this. Yes, we've looked after a beautiful tawny before. You can see a little of Raisin here, on Marginalia: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/ne... If not too late, feel free to wing a question our way. Tawnies are magnificent!
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From nestling to fledgling — Marginalia
The speed of her happy transformation still astounds. Little wisps of fluff continue to float loose and her darker, striking feathers deepen and extend. A necklace around her throat, a lengthening of ...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Where realms collide, a new post on Marginalia. To read: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ti...
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Where realms collide — Marginalia
Wildlife care to the digital realm
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A kaleidoscope of wild: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ka... (A new post on Marginlia)
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A kaleidoscope of wild — Marginalia
Harp C. Chord, Fennel, and Ivo Brown may have long, it feels, headed to crèche at Bat Rescue Bayside, but their places were soon filled. Mid-January saw the arrival of more pups into care, and with th...
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RMIT School of Art @rmit-art1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Opening tonight! Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition Opening Tuesday 18 November 5:00pm – 8:00pm RMIT Buildings 2, 4, 37 and First Site Gallery RMIT City Campus Installation photos: @gracialouise.bsky.social
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RMIT School of Art @rmit-art1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A look behind the scenes as the forthcoming Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition takes shape. Each year RMIT’s city campus comes alive as art students exhibit and celebrate their work. Photos by @gracialouise.bsky.social All artists tagged, on RMIT SoA instagram.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Our collage work is, as ever, growing alongside wildlife care, with the two literally side by side, interweaving whether intentional or not. Our Tiny but Wild shelter is our home-based studio and vice versa, and the knowledge from one flows into the other.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Several new and terrifically exciting projects for 2026 are forming in the wings, and while it is too early to reveal them, in full, a small peep at the process, for the source material is spectacular, really must be shared.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We are creatures of organic substance: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/cr... (A new post on Marginalia)
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We are creatures of organic substance — Marginalia
Rare books to wildlife care
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Smallest wonders: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/en... Our recent enquiry into the smallest wonders of nature, the quartet of entomologists, has reached a happy conclusion. Our role in the lives of the Sutton Grange autumn soft release possums has drawn to a close. (A new post on Marginalia)
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Smallest wonders — Marginalia
Wildlife soft release
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Recently, for Fjord Review. The Australian Ballet's Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Manon: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/th... and DanceX, part two: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/da... October!
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Devotion and Desire
Sir Kenneth MacMillan began his choreography for “Manon” with the pas de deux[1], and from this shining, central point spun outward. Building the story from its heart, almost as if from the inside out...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Lately, animals. Lately, wildlife. Lately, dance. Wild or otherwise. Slow. Quick. Slow. www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/sl... A new post on Marginalia.
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Slow. Quick. Slow. — Marginalia
Lately, animals. Lately, wildlife. Lately, dance. Wild or otherwise. Read about Week 1 of DanceX at the Playhouse and 두물머리 Dumulmeori (where two rivers meet) at Dancehouse on Fjord Review. With Sir Ke...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Situated in the phenomenal, what better place for a conversation between Australian choreographers Michelle Heaven and Alisdair Macindoe and Korean artists Chosul Kim and Jung. Continue reading on Fjord Review: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/cr...
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Crossroads
Haneul Jung oscillates between the definition of the Korean word, man-il meaning “ten thousand days” and “what if.”[1] “Man-il,” the first of four solo works presented at the confluence of two rivers ...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Moss Te Ururangi Patterson describes his choreographic process having a conversation with other elements. Continue reading Week 1 of DanceX on Fjord Review: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/gr...
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Ground Control
Moss Te Ururangi Patterson describes his choreographic process having a conversation with other elements. As he describes pushing himself under the waves, and a feeling of meditative, buoyancy as he f...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Points of View, my response to The Australian Ballet’s Prism, drawn up especially for Fjord Review. The Australian Ballet’s triple bill, Prism, is dedicated to the memory of Garth Welch AM, a founding principal artist of the company. fjordreview.com/blogs/all/po...
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Points of View
From the back of the stage, a single searchlight points in the direction of the audience, and as it does, it sweeps across the forms of seven dancers in Stephanie Lake’s “Seven Days.” The scene is pla...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...
Slide images from a talk showing the Libris Awards, Association of Polish Bookbinders, London Centre for Book Arts, Codex Polaris.Slide images from a talk showing Galerie Druck & Buch, UWE letterpress studios, Herzog August Bibliothek, Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Two pink-nosed goodbyes rolled one into the other. The last of our Spring soft releases rolled into the last sighting of our Scott Alley inhabitants, created especially for National Threatened Species Day. Last pair! Last hurrah! www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/la...
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Last pair! Last hurrah! — Marginalia
The last of our Spring soft releases rolls into the last sighting of our Scott Alley inhabitants for National Threatened Species Day
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Looking up at the night sky, the stars can tell you when to seed, harvest, and fish. The overhead knowledge system heralds seasonal change, and allows you to read the weather forecast. The night sky is infinite: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/il...
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The night sky is infinite — Marginalia
Bangarra Dance Theatre's Illume
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Who knows? Some leave quickly, some return often, as they find their way.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
They’d threaded out into the night, that keen and clever pair. Up into the embrace of the trees. To the connected canopy of bough after bough. Perhaps to their familiar nesting box we’d earlier secured to the tree nearest the enclosure.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Unscrewing the lid, and easing a rope through the hole, we imparted, wordlessly, stay up high, little ones. Stay ever alert. Live a long life, and enjoy the texture of the thick bark beneath your paws. The following day we heard news they had vacated the trailer.
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Into the night: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/in... (A new post on Marginalia) The little soft release trailer stands empty. On Saturday afternoon, we opened the hatch to the soft release enclosure, and wished the then current occupants, Bug and Helena, safe adventures.
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Into the night — Marginalia
Wildlife soft release
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RMIT School of Art @rmit-art1.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Diana Morgan Postgraduate and Honours Gold & Silversmithing Prize Exhibition and Announcement Thursday 21 August (Opening celebration & prize announcements) 5–7pm SITE EIGHT Gallery Building 2, Level 2, Room 8 Bowen Street (off La Trobe Street) Melbourne gif: @gracialouise.bsky.social
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A fleeting sense of: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/fl... (A new post on Marginalia, from Scott Alley to BAT MASSIVE)
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A fleeting sense of — Marginalia
A fleeting sense of commission for the Metro Tunnel Creative Program at Town Hall Station
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Page preening and costume turning: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/pa... (Paper Universe: the book as art slides into Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025. Something new on Marginalia.)
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Page preening and costume turning — Marginalia
Paper Universe: The book as art exhibition slides into Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
But a peep: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/bu... (Something new to read on Marginalia)
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But a peep — Marginalia
After the All Stars exhibition closing celebration (at RMIT School of Art), and the nocturnal shift commenced, we returned Zeus, a Gould’s wattled bat we’d recently had in care, to his leafy wild home...
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
As ever, please note: you need to be a qualified, vaccinated carer to handle bats. 🦇
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“If you find a microbat in a spot like this during winter, it is important not to disturb them as they are likely in torpor and may not be able to survive if this is interrupted.“ — wildlifevictoria.org.au/learn/fact-sheets/microbats
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Microbats
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Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“Due to increased urbanisation and habitat destruction, microbats often use outdoor furniture or similar human structures to roost in.”
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