You're invited...

, originally uploaded by gracia+louise.

Not my parlour

Victorian photo collaging, originally uploaded by Emerson Merrick.

From the sketchbook

Making the most of the scanner, here is another detail. And a clipping to Menagerie, an exhibition of contemporary indigenous sculpture at the Melbourne Museum.

(08.01.10)

Until the end of this month

A key to help make your own world visible.
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

23rd October – 28th November, 2009

Craft Victoria
31 Flinders Lane
Melbourne

To wear

Lisa Walker, Brooch (2007) plastic, glue.

If it wasn't going to be so unbearably hot today (38°C!!), this is what I'd be taking myself off to see...

Lisa Walker: Unwearable
23 January - 7 March
Galleries One & Two
Craft Victoria, 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne


Lisa Walker, Brooch (1999) silver, rubber, horsehair, iron wire.


Lisa Walker, Sheep Truck (1997) silver, enamel paint.

(All images via D*Hub)

The Last Hurrah at Imp

Heathcliff and Cathy plan disturbance on the gallery wall.

My drawing for The Last Hurrah! at Imp.

Heathcliff and Cathy plan disturbance.
Elaine Haby
Pencil on Aquarelle Arches 100% pure cotton hot pressed 300gsm paper
2008

Come along for The Last Hurrah!

I'm taking part in...

THE LAST HURRAH!
A group drawing and works on paper show

28th November - 21st December, 2008

Opening,
Friday 28th August
6-9pm

Imp
above Greville St Bookstore
145 Greville St, Prahran

more

My Little Menagerie

Yesterday the three of us, Gracia, Louise & I, set up My Little Menagerie in the window. Here is a look at it, from start to finish... as you can see, I am not one who believes in editing photos.

Thanks honeybun 1 and honeybun 2 for your help.

Stuffies are coming

A selection of new handmade Thelma's stuffies of mine slated to appear in both Olinda and here.

MY LITTLE MENAGERIE
Soon to feature in the window of children's store MINE, in Olinda.

3rd September - 13th October, 2008

Opening,
Wednesday 3rd September
6-8pm

MINE - kids in Olinda
Shop 5, 540 Mount Dandenong Tourist Road
Olinda, Vic 3788

Some come with buttons for noses and others sport stripes on their stumpy tails. Some have small pockets filled with tiny red felt hearts and others have ears that flop from left to right. Some are rotund and others are lean, and some come with lips that are wide and arms wider still. Differences, quirks and individual mannerisms aside, all stuffed creatures are made completely by hand with a full percentage of love by Elaine Haby (who masquerades, with her foot on the peddle of her sewing machine and a pin in her mouth, under the name Thelma).

These are her things handmade especially for you, a host of stuffed creatures and roomy tote bags fashioned from Belgian linen. A recent addition to her handmade parade, her tote bags are large enough to house a stuffed companion alongside a favourite read. Lined and double-stitched for good measure, they ought to afford a grin.

Thanks Brydie for this opportunity.

You're invited

BUT FOR THE MOON NOBODY COULD SEE US
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

30th August - 21st September, 2008

Opening,
Saturday 30th August
2-4pm

Imp
above Greville St Bookstore
145 Greville St, Prahran

More here.

Hanging on the wall

On the brick wall beside the fireplace hang the three small canvases and two wooden creatures, a white rabbit and a bird.

Today we de-install the exhibition. It has all gone quickly and without hassle.

From setting up to all finished (almost)

From beginning to end, tomorrow Dogs & Hares draws to a close.

Setting up Dogs & Hares late last week

Hanging the exhibition one wall at a time.

You're invited

(Please click to enlarge.)

Please come along and join MG and I next Friday eve.

DOGS AND HARES
Mary Gray & Elaine Haby

20th June - 3rd July, 2008

Opening, 20th June, 6pm

bsg
322 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy

Gallery hours, Wed-Thu 12-4pm, Fri-Sun 11-6pm

Hope to see you there!

More from the studio

A recent oil painting completed.

My two-person exhibition with Mary draws nearer and I am working in the studio to get everything finished in time for June the 20th.

Works in Progress

Taken on a grey day in my studio, here are three works in progress.

Thanks for the mention.