I slipped into reverie.

{Comes Queen's Birthday, this all comes down, hyenas and all.}


{Little Lenni in the gallery, by our paper installation dedicated to Omar. (Thank you Victor and Catherine)}

In Your Dreams
Stephen Bush, Michael Doolan, Daniel Dorall, William Eicholtz, Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Dylan Martorell, Steaphan Paton, Kate Rohde, Kate Shaw, Sally Smart, Van Sowerwine & Isobel Knowles, Yandell Walton, Sharon West
Curated by Edwina Bartlem and Victor Griss
Until Sunday 8th of June, 2014
Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick

Though we’d rather leave our works on the wall for many weeks longer, In Your Dreams prepares to enter its very last week. Come Sunday the 8th of June, at 5pm, Louise’s fantastical Great Auks will be taken down and stored away, and my concertina artists’ books compressed like the bellows of a squeezebox. But what we will perhaps inadvertently leave in the gallery is a little tuft of kitten hair, for last week we took little Lenni to the gallery to see our installation that references (in the text, specifically) his Siamese successor, dear Omar.


{Earlier today at the gallery, we checked our Great Auks were behaving.}


{Lenni and the Artists' Books performing once a blue moon. (A Siamese cat In Your Dreams)}


{Even with Whipped Cream, Lenni is not quite sure about the gallery and all its noise.}


{And we checked that the borrowed costume of Petrouchka and the headdress of a seahorse from Sadko didn't need a spot clean.}


{The artists' book,Tumbling Lightly, Tumbling Fast (II), with a Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (recently drawn by @pasadenamansions).}

+ A familiar Tube-nosed Fruit Bat becomes a daily drawing (from the artists' book Tumbling lightly, tumbling fast (II))
+ .... and a pair of lurking clowns too (Thanks @pasadenamansions)
+ Familiar animals on the shelf in quiet procession (Forrester's Hall, 1888)
+ What goes up.... yeah, yeah, we know
+ Sweet Dreams, Ramona Barry, handmadelife

+ And should you like, you can vote for Louise's artists' book, A Flight of Twelve Southern Hemisphere Birds, to win the People's Choice Award (as part of the 2014 National Works on Paper exhibition at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery)

+ (A terrific June highlight) Life is a masquerade, Valerie Lawson. Behind Ballet