The Remaking of Things by Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison

 "The remaking of things is a collage comprised from 100 individual pieces in the NGV collection, spanning painting and photography by way of ceramics and silverware, textiles and works on paper.
“We have created a pocket of restored eucalyptus forest habitat by the banks of the Birrarung for the Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus), and all who fall beneath the care and knowledge of their wing, from the smallest Reed Warbler (c. 1804–1806) to the loftiest, gelatin silver Giant eucalyptus (1899), our human selves included. We have interlaced our roles as artists and wildlife carers for the Grey-headed flying fox to sow a message of hope, cultivated from Anne Paulson’s Sketches of Victorian bush flowers (c. 1861) and fit for a John Lewin’s Warty-face Honey-sucker (now known as a Regent honeyeater). We have placed our emphasis upon what we can grow, rather than upon what we have lost (habitat, biodiversity, stable climate). Through seed dispersal and pollinating plants, flying foxes are the reason we have trees, diversity. And it is because of this ‘no me, no tree’ that none of us can afford to lose this threatened species.
“We have printed scenes from the glass plate negatives of Caire’s Fairy scene at the Landslip, Blacks’ Spur (c. 1878) and Condon’s Gully, Healesville (c. 1903–1910) upon silver foil paper, which has then been cut into the shapes of paperweights, embellished emu eggs, and further Sowerby specimens ranging from, what we now refer to as, acacias to grevilleas. This sweep of additional reflective collage components is intended to serve as a mirror: what is my role in the forest? What am I doing for nature? A literal reflection to spark a question, dressed in the costume of a Horseshoe bat’s outstretched wing.” - Gracia and Louise: