BECAUSE OF OUR INERTIA
Burning Inside: A print exchange folio and exhibition project, November, 2025
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison
Because of our inertia
2025
Inkjet print on Canson Arches 88 310gsm
19 x 28 cm
Printed by Arten
Edition of 29, with 10 artists’ proofs
Created especially for Burning Inside: A print exchange folio and exhibition project, curated by Rona Green and Thomas A Middlemost
From Katherine Rundell’s book, The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure, foregrounding the magnificence around us which we risk losing before we’ve even began to understand, told through 22 species either endangered or containing a subspecies that is endangered, sprang our response to this year’s print exchange theme: Burning Inside. “So much can still be saved. It is the greatest task, now, of everyone alive: to keep it from the flames”[i]. As artists and wildlife carers, most of the magnificence around us which we encounter needs attention and care, and these actions are what fuels us.
We have learnt, and are learning, everything from the animals in our care, and in doing so, it has reawakened a way of seeing. Because ‘nature’ is not ‘out there’, but everywhere, everything, interconnected. Just as our care work and artwork is becoming indivisible, it is one. Multifaceted and glorious.
In the company of a glass negative echidna[ii], a Little lorikeet, and a Varied lorikeet[iii] with a bright red cap, we step up, to ensure the world remains “a body of unimaginable splendour [turning] on its axis, calling us to its aid”[iv].
[i] Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole and Other Vanishing Treasure, London: Faber & Faber, 2023, p. 180.
[ii] From Walkabout magazine: original photographs and associated records, 1934–1974, Box 10, in the collection of State Library New South Wales.
[iii] A Little lorikeet and a Varied lorikeet as drawn by Silvestor Diggles, from the third volume of Ornithology of Australia, commences with Cacatua and ends with Strepsilas, ca. 1863–1875.
[iv] Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole, p. 186.
