The background is key to the foreground.

{Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison, Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus) and Plum-headed finch (Neochmia modesta) in disguise, 2014, wood engraving and collage (take II, especially for the Brimblebox 153 Birds project)}

In the background to new work, there is this, this tiny, beloved, domestic idyll working to ensure ideas are seized and made.


{Delivered to @portjacksonpressgallery, six framed postcard collages (in pink bubble wrap).}


{How all Saturday afternoons should roll. Louise inks up, with apprentice Lenni, and a Plum-headed finch appears.}


{Percy waits on the front step, an ear out for Louise. And though passing tradies try to woo him, he remains loyally on watch.}


{Falls in the front door. Brews a third coffee.}


{While indulging in a so-happy-you're-home foot rub, Lenni tries to fill a square.}

+ Brimble bramble (Brimblox 153 Birds Project)
+ Safe travels, take II

Coming up:
90
"Port Jackson Press has a stable of over 90 contemporary printmakers, showcased all together for the first time in this exhibition 90"
From the 7th November 2014
Port Jackson Press Print Gallery
84 Smith Street, Collingwood (VIC)

+ MIEL Books 20% discount sale
+ "It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting & satisfying." Käthe Kollwitz, a Berlin story, The British Museum
+ Jack’s Dream, Joseph Cornell (made with Larry Jordan), c. late 1930s
+ How to be a Hedgehog, Medieval Manuscripts blog, British Library
+ Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo

+ The Hastings River Mouse (Pseudomys oralis) learns that he will not be one of the ten chosen mammals for our next artists' book
+ Soon to fly to a new home, one of @pasadenamansions' earlier paintings
+ A tiny gecko, found in the bathroom by an inquisitive Lenni, is released into the garden to rejoin his or her comrades