The end is the beginning: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/wi... Little more is heartening than seeing, on the trail cameras positioned around the soft-release site, four ringtails, Echo, Periwinkle, Asta, and Gustave cavorting on the roof. They took to the canopy with such ease.

The end is the beginning — Marginalia

Wildlife care new beginnings

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Leaf through; dream on: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ra... Our first Rare Book Week session had to be Earth, Insect, Beast, to see, with our own eyes the National Gallery of Victoria’s earliest illuminated manuscript, The Gospel of Theophanes (ca. 1125–1150).

Leaf through; dream on — Marginalia

Our first Rare Book Week session had to be Earth, Insect, Beast, to see, with our own eyes the National Gallery of Victoria’s earliest illuminated manuscript, The Gospel of Theophanes, a Byzantine ren...

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Sanctuary: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/sa... Sanctuary Keynote guests: Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison Art Education Victoria Presents: Re-assemble Art Education Conference 2026 Storey Hall, RMIT University, Building 16, 336–348 Swanston Street, Melbourne Friday 10th July, 2026

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Through our artwork and our care work, as artists and wildlife careers, we seek to illuminate the many and wondrous ways in which the more-than-human or the other-than-human beings experience, sense, ...

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While it was earlier than we’d planned, and winter, the possum quartet decided it was time to head to the soft-release site. 'Tiny July' www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ti... Something new to read on Marginalia.

Tiny July — Marginalia

While it was earlier than we’d planned, and winter, the possum quartet decided it was time to head to the soft-release site. On the calendar, we still had another month, but listening to the possums, ...

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My response to The Australian Ballet’s opening night of Copland Dance Episodes, drawn up especially for Fjord Review. 'Green so close to blue it becomes sea green': www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/co... Something new to read on Marginalia.

Green so close to blue it becomes sea green — Marginalia

The Australian Ballet’s Copland Dance Episodes

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'What Are They Up To at the State Library of Victoria now?' Gideon Haigh: www.cricketetal.com/p/what-are-t...

What Are They Up To at the State Library of Victoria now?

GH has an update

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“The BHL is fundamental to our understanding of all the species that we share this world with, and our ability to save them,” says Nicole Kearney. “We now have 64m pages of knowledge at our fingertips, which we need to make more discoverable and accessible. There’s so much more we could be doing.”

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BHL is featured in @theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series. The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future. Please read and share: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪 🌎 📖 🔗 🐟 💚

We have recently received a few questions about our missing artists' book beneath the dome from those curious as to where the work has gone. (In mid 2017, we installed our Looped series of artists’ books in the dais at State Library Victoria.) Disrupted, and how www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/di...

Disrupted, and how — Marginalia

Such a beautiful central location! We’d thought the greatest threat to our artists’ books, on loan in our Looped display, was light. Sadly, it turns out the greatest threat was a member of the public ...

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Peach Velvet farewells: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/fa... (A new post on Marginalia)

Fare thee well, Artie — Marginalia

A bright, intense though all too fleeting spark, sadly we have had to say goodbye to our beloved ‘foster fail’, wise soul, dear, dear Arthur. As soon as he met us in the consulting rooms at the RSPCA,...

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“Gregarious. Fan-shaped fruiting bodies” www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ev... A new post on Marginalia

“Gregarious. Fan-shaped fruiting bodies” — Marginalia

Can we dream it? and Can we dream it? enquired the lantern bugs

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The Book Arts Newsletter No 172, April - June 2026 is ready for download at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/ 60 pages of artists' books news and opportunities. Cover artist for this issue: Angelo Ricciardi for World Book Night 2026 Next deadline: 15th June for the July – August newsletter.

A fleeting sense of, revisited: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/re... Something new on Marginalia

A fleeting sense of, revisited — Marginalia

We have been busy extending the scene of a recent Scott Alley collage commission, A fleeting sense of, especially for a forthcoming exhibition. We have been growing the landscape to accommodate a trio...

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Where realms collide, a new post on Marginalia. To read: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ti...

Where realms collide — Marginalia

Wildlife care to the digital realm

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A kaleidoscope of wild: www.graciahaby.com/home/2026/ka... (A new post on Marginlia)

A kaleidoscope of wild — Marginalia

Harp C. Chord, Fennel, and Ivo Brown may have long, it feels, headed to crèche at Bat Rescue Bayside, but their places were soon filled. Mid-January saw the arrival of more pups into care, and with th...

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Opening tonight! Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition Opening Tuesday 18 November 5:00pm – 8:00pm RMIT Buildings 2, 4, 37 and First Site Gallery RMIT City Campus Installation photos: @gracialouise.bsky.social

A look behind the scenes as the forthcoming Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) Graduate Exhibition takes shape. Each year RMIT’s city campus comes alive as art students exhibit and celebrate their work. Photos by @gracialouise.bsky.social All artists tagged, on RMIT SoA instagram.

We are creatures of organic substance: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/cr... (A new post on Marginalia)

We are creatures of organic substance — Marginalia

Rare books to wildlife care

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Smallest wonders: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/en... Our recent enquiry into the smallest wonders of nature, the quartet of entomologists, has reached a happy conclusion. Our role in the lives of the Sutton Grange autumn soft release possums has drawn to a close. (A new post on Marginalia)

Smallest wonders — Marginalia

Wildlife soft release

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Recently, for Fjord Review. The Australian Ballet's Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Manon: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/th... and DanceX, part two: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/da... October!

Devotion and Desire

Sir Kenneth MacMillan began his choreography for “Manon” with the pas de deux[1], and from this shining, central point spun outward. Building the story from its heart, almost as if from the inside out...

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Lately, animals. Lately, wildlife. Lately, dance. Wild or otherwise. Slow. Quick. Slow. www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/sl... A new post on Marginalia.

Slow. Quick. Slow. — Marginalia

Lately, animals. Lately, wildlife. Lately, dance. Wild or otherwise. Read about Week 1 of DanceX at the Playhouse and 두물머리 Dumulmeori (where two rivers meet) at Dancehouse on Fjord Review. With Sir Ke...

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Situated in the phenomenal, what better place for a conversation between Australian choreographers Michelle Heaven and Alisdair Macindoe and Korean artists Chosul Kim and Jung. Continue reading on Fjord Review: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/cr...

Crossroads

Haneul Jung oscillates between the definition of the Korean word, man-il meaning “ten thousand days” and “what if.”[1] “Man-il,” the first of four solo works presented at the confluence of two rivers ...

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Moss Te Ururangi Patterson describes his choreographic process having a conversation with other elements. Continue reading Week 1 of DanceX on Fjord Review: fjordreview.com/blogs/all/gr...

Ground Control

Moss Te Ururangi Patterson describes his choreographic process having a conversation with other elements. As he describes pushing himself under the waves, and a feeling of meditative, buoyancy as he f...

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Points of View, my response to The Australian Ballet’s Prism, drawn up especially for Fjord Review. The Australian Ballet’s triple bill, Prism, is dedicated to the memory of Garth Welch AM, a founding principal artist of the company. fjordreview.com/blogs/all/po...

Points of View

From the back of the stage, a single searchlight points in the direction of the audience, and as it does, it sweeps across the forms of seven dancers in Stephanie Lake’s “Seven Days.” The scene is pla...

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Terrie Reddish and I recorded a talk for 'BIND25 - preserving the past and crafting the future', Association of Book Crafts New Zealand conference. We discuss aspects of bookmaking in all its forms and ways to get involved in the communities of its practices, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XWo...

Two pink-nosed goodbyes rolled one into the other. The last of our Spring soft releases rolled into the last sighting of our Scott Alley inhabitants, created especially for National Threatened Species Day. Last pair! Last hurrah! www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/la...

Last pair! Last hurrah! — Marginalia

The last of our Spring soft releases rolls into the last sighting of our Scott Alley inhabitants for National Threatened Species Day

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Looking up at the night sky, the stars can tell you when to seed, harvest, and fish. The overhead knowledge system heralds seasonal change, and allows you to read the weather forecast. The night sky is infinite: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/il...

The night sky is infinite — Marginalia

Bangarra Dance Theatre's Illume

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Into the night: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/in... (A new post on Marginalia) The little soft release trailer stands empty. On Saturday afternoon, we opened the hatch to the soft release enclosure, and wished the then current occupants, Bug and Helena, safe adventures.

Into the night — Marginalia

Wildlife soft release

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Diana Morgan Postgraduate and Honours Gold & Silversmithing Prize Exhibition and Announcement Thursday 21 August (Opening celebration & prize announcements) 5–7pm SITE EIGHT Gallery Building 2, Level 2, Room 8 Bowen Street (off La Trobe Street) Melbourne gif: @gracialouise.bsky.social

A fleeting sense of: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/fl... (A new post on Marginalia, from Scott Alley to BAT MASSIVE)

A fleeting sense of — Marginalia

A fleeting sense of commission for the Metro Tunnel Creative Program at Town Hall Station

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Page preening and costume turning: www.graciahaby.com/home/2025/pa... (Paper Universe: the book as art slides into Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025. Something new on Marginalia.)

Page preening and costume turning — Marginalia

Paper Universe: The book as art exhibition slides into Melbourne Rare Book Week 2025

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