{Percy's reprieve! We may have another week; we may make it to the New Year! Percy's kindly vet has assured us that the tumour looks worse than it is, and he is still comfortable and with spark. Thank-you for all your kind words and good thoughts. Were that all long goodbyes could be like this.}
{That's it! @pasadenamansions sure knows how to capture Mr. Percy's grin. (Elaine Haby's sketchbook tales, #dailydrawingforayear.)}
{I'll keep you steady (2012), in hand. One of a handful of postcard collages.}
A small message to let you know, loyal sorts, that new greeting cards have landed in our online store featuring Salvaged Relatives in costumes for dancing by Sonia Delaunay and tiger stripes by Gilbert Adrian.
In addition to these cards and just because, you'll also find a very small selection of original postcard collages (previously exhibited as part of an installation of 464 postcards on the gallery wall).
And while you are there, please do remember that our NOVEMBER SALE still has legs. Simply enter the code word 'REBOOTED' upon checkout to receive 30%-off your whole order on anything in our online store from now until the 30th of November.
{From a Magical Saturday afternoon. (Magical: an exhibition of prints by 47 artists, Neospace, 7 Campbell Street, Collingwood, curated by the brilliant (and booted and bruised) @ronagreenart, until the 11th of December.)}
{Two of our artists' books, 30 days in Vienna (2003) and Melbourne in 31 days (2002), are currently on display at the State Library of Victoria as part of their permanent exhibition, Mirror of the World: books and ideas.}
{Because there is always the floor. Rest easy, dear Olive.}
{Louise's Sea otter (2015) and Snow leopard (2015) awaiting their spot on the gallery wall.}
{Because Lenni. He catches rainbows.}
{We are thrilled (and blurred) to have our artists' book, As inclination directs (2013), feature in The Craft Companion by Ramona Barry and Rebecca Jobson, published by Thames & Hudson.}
{A fan of new cards, available at Milly Sleeping in Carlton and through our online store.}
{In the gallery, checking up on old friends. A deck of Salvaged Relatives (2015) tucked inside a fairy tale inside a Solander box-nest where old age and weary muscles will not find them.}
Our two prints, And Zarafa Kept Walking (2013) and Turning the Tables on Alfred Court (2013) will be exhibited as part of the group exhibition of urban tales, Street Stories, at Delmar Gallery.
Street Stories
Delmar Gallery, Trinity Grammar School, 144 Victoria Street, Ashfield, NSW
22nd November to 6th December
And Louise's two beautiful and tender lemonwood engravings, Sea otter (2015) and Snow leopard (2015) will be exhibited as part of the group exhibition, Wrap Up, at Port Jackson Press Print Gallery.
Wrap Up
Port Jackson Press Print Gallery, 84 Smith Street, Collingwood, Victoria
25th November to 23rd December
+ Edvard Hagerup Grieg composed the song Våren (Spring, also known as The Last Spring) as his Opus 33, no.2, to words by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje. “Once more I saw winter before spring drove it away; again I was able to see the branches of the cherry tree blossom. Once more I saw the ice as it thawed. I saw the snow melt and the rapids in the brook foaming. Once more I saw the green grass and the flowers. Once more I heard the spring bird sing to the sun and the summer. One day, I will bathe in the spring air that fills my eyes, and there I will find a home. Everything that spring has brought me, the flowers I gathered, all seem the spirits of my forefathers dancing and sighing! And so under the birches and pine boughs I found a springtime riddle. And the sound of the flute that I carved seems as though I am weeping.”
