Visual Diary D 17 (1985)

Foolscap book with black cover, labelled ‘Howard Arkley work book May 85’

Arkley archive

Detailed visual diary filled with sketches, taped in images, notes etc., covering 1985-86; notable material:

  • (reproduced here:) page with suburban source images and notes (one of two pages from this book reproduced in Carnival Fig.4.12)
  • masonry texture source and added notes (detail reproduced in Carnival Fig.4.35)
  • a drawing of a figure on a stand, s+d ‘HA 85’
  • a series of Tudor house sources/notes, including a concept for a ‘Tudor nightscape’, and the idea of titling a Tudor house ‘Home for Goblins’ (see now Carnival 28)
  • ideas for Highrise St Kilda Road 1986 and other works in Arkley’s 1986 Tolarno exhibition
  • more suburban schemes, including a detailed plan for a whole 2-part suburban exhibition, prefiguring Arkley’s 1999 Venice installation (as remarked in Carnival 118, dating this entry to 1986, and quoting extensively from it)