Journal: At "Owl's Wood" Glenquarry, 2008
- Containers:
- Box 18
- Component identifier:
- File 56
- Content Summary:
- Sketches including of: self; faces; octopus, frogs, Lady Mary Fairfax, dogs, beetles, the poet Cavafy, fish, Bondi nipper, three blind mice, Toad of Toad Hall, sparrow, cats, Janus, Jolly Koh, Katherine, food dishes and Ray Crooke. Illnesss and deaths of daughter Jane, ex-wife Valerie and friend James Gleeson. His health and recovery from knee operation. Celebration of his 80th birthday. Reflections on Fairweather, Baldessin, Pugh, Paloma Picasso, Storrier, Rees, Larwell, Havekes and aboriginal art. References on works in progress, including: a commissioned work with Chinese New Year theme, a mural for the Olsen Hotel foyer, mixed media works, Lake Eyre themed oils, Culinaria series, drawings of monkeys and frogs. Contact with friends and colleagues, including Barry and Lizzie Humphries, Betty Churcher, dinner for Edmund Capon; Gary Shead; David Helfgott; and dinner on Olsen being awarded Life Governor of AGNSW. Photographs including of artwork, events, himself, family, and friends. Trips to Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, on a mediterranean cruise and to Delmore Downs in Central Australia. Exhibitions, reading and poetry.
- Subjects:
- Arts
Access and use
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- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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