Daybook (untitled), 2009-2011

Containers:: Box 16
Component identifier:: File 50
Content Summary:: Based at Glenquarry with trips to Sydney and Melbourne. Visits to Hidden Lake. Work on Lake Eyre paintings, an ABC programme on his lake works and reflections on Paul Lockyer's helicopter crash death there. Descriptions of time in studio and presence or absence of muse; and feeling of being imprisoned by demand for frog works. Sketches (ink) including of: dishwasher, cat, prawn, faces and people, Hidden Lake, frogs, caricatures and calamari. Reflections on Robert Hughes' condition post car accident; Larkin's work; Manet and Vuillard. Meals, cooking and recipes. Reading and literary quotes. Operation and recovery. Discussions with biographer Darleen Bungey and with MacMillans re publications. Receival of Honorary Doctorate University of Newcastle.

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