A thing turned on its head.

{Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition, 2014}

In 2012, when a photographer we’d engaged to document our work installed at Latrobe Regional Gallery took umbrage with my "mindless stickers" and "vandalism to beautiful century old rare and valuable works", a tiny seed germinated into Salvaged Relatives, an open-ended series of portraits of forgotten characters rescued from second-hand bookstores and opportunity shops, and given shiny new modified costumes.  

Salvaged Relatives made their debut as part of Good Mail Day, an exhibition of 4” X 6” works curated by Lisa Solomon and Susan Schwake, and have since rubbed shoulders with my portraits for Fjord Review. They later appeared in collaboration with Louise in a hand-coloured wilderness on the cover of the Book Arts Newsletter, and can now fit snugly in your palm in the form of a zine for $3.00 (AUD). 

Salvaged Relatives Pocket Edition is a new concertina zine featuring a sextet of characters in borrowed and modified costumes from the Ballet Russes. An edition of 75, it is now available through our online store for a song.

+ (A beautiful follow-up to an earlier blunder.) A blow, cushioned. A note from Sir David Attenborough! ("Dear Gracia & Louise, Thank-you for your message in your charming card. I am so sorry there was a confusion concerning your tickets. Best Wishes, David Attenborough")
+ "Pass me my paints," sang Cavaradossi. "Pass me a salted caramel chocolate frog," I sang in interval. (@OperaAustralia's Puccini's Tosca, with all its intensity and fate bemoaned, directed by John Bell, at the State Theatre the other night.)
+ With dear Omar on my lap, a work in progress peep at @pasadenamansions drawing for this week.
+ I spy three cats on the gallery wall. (A repost from @portjacksonpressgallery: "One complete wall of the '90' show is officially hanging! It looks absolutely spectacular!")