Visual Diary D 38 (c.1994-96)



Small-format photo album with maps & globes on cover; undated

Arkley archive

This album contains a rich collection of source material, notes etc., mostly dating from 1996, but also some material from 1994-5 (and earlier), including:

  • (loose at the start) several photo pockets including work-in-progress photos of ‘House with Tree’ paintings
  • numerous photos of works in progress, including Theatrical Façade 1996 [Canberra], High Fenced (1996) etc. (some clearly dated Sept.-Oct.1996)
  • (reproduced here:) photo of Arkley himself viewing the city of Melbourne, with the former Gas & Fuel buildings in the background: possibly a source image for Untitled [‘Man looking onto cityscape’] (1994?)
  • doodles (some dated 1994)
  • sources for various completed works inc. various houses, Tudor villages, etc.
  • page of source images for projected night houses: detail reproduced in Carnival Fig.4.30
  • houses under construction
  • image of a man seeing his logos from a train (modified comic-book source, related to Arkley’s collaboration with Peter Tyndall)
  • postcard to Arkley from Marco Livingstone (dated 9 Oct. 1995; Patrick Caulfield image)
  • photos of Arkley at work