Visual Diary 21 (1987ff.)

NB this diary was previously catalogued as no.D19; numbering adjusted to reflect the systematic cataloguing used by SLV for the Howard Arkley Archive.

This detailed diary covering the period from 1987 to c.1991, includes miscellaneous source material, notes, ideas and sketches (a number of these are reproduced and/or discussed in the comments on Arkley’s so-called ‘virtual oeuvre’ in Carnival ch.4).

Most of the entries date from 1987 and soon after, with a few subsequent additions. Significant contents include:

• opening page (dated 1.1.87: reproduced in Carnival Fig.4.38) containing furniture designs, with further similar material on pages following
• notes for Arkley’s 1987 Sydney exhibition, and his ‘Casual Works’ show 1988
• a bathroom source image (see comments in Carnival 127)
• chair and furniture designs, including plans to make replicas of examples by Gerrit Rietveld and Scott Burton: see now Carnival 131, including a reproduction of a typical page from this diary (Fig.4.38)
• an idea for a ‘Couples’ exhibition (detail reproduced in Carnival Fig.4.46)
• (reproduced here) notes on textures, and a sketch for a work based on the Fats Domino song ‘Walking’ – box-on-legs composition used for Happenstance (1987) and several related works on paper also noted in the entry on that canvas
• Marionette scheme (reproduced and discussed in Carnival 137 and Fig.4.48)
• an idea for a ‘swing painting’
• an idea for a tall house painting entitled ‘Source of Pride’ (entry reproduced and discussed in Carnival 127 and Fig.4.29)