About the Artwork
A fleeting sense of what could be. A fleeting sense of what was. A fleeting sense of what the world looks like if you could see, like some birds do, ultraviolet (UV) light. Transmuted from awareness to collage, a fleeting, euphoric sense of pollen, radiating, as dislodged, it settles. See a slither of their spectrum, a tendril of connectivity, to commemorate the death of the last Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), this National Threatened Species Day (Sunday 7th September, 2025)*. To Benjamin, the last of all of them, who died in captivity at Hobart Zoo in 1936.
Listen for a hoot, a snuffle, a rustle in the undergrowth. Find within, a pair of Swift parrots (Lathamus discolour); a lone Southern greater glider (Petauroides volans); a Brush-tailed rock-wallaby (southern population) (Petrogale penicillate); a family of Eastern barred bandicoots (mainland population) (Perameles gunnii); and an inspection of Pookila (New Holland mouse) (Pseudomys novaehollandiae). All species who now find themselves, like Benjamin did, on the threatened species list. Pause a while.
*Today, over 2,000 species of plant, animal and ecological communities, including over 590 native animals, are offcially listed as threatened under Australia's EPBC Act 1999 (WWF Australia).
About the Artists
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison have been collaborating since 1999, using an armoury of play, and the familiar too, with the intention of luring you into their A(rtists’ books) to Z(ines). As artists and wildlife carers, their practice frequently concerns the natural world, addressing themes of conservation and biodiversity.