Café Lua was doing an art competition based on a visual response to the theme “The First Time”. This is my entry!
Café Lua “The First Time” Art Competition
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Wellington City Library
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Voice
I was very lucky to be at the Oxford Literary Festival on one Saturday. Phillip Pullman, Patience Agbabi, Kate Clanchy and James Hawes was talking about voice. Not just literary voice and written voice, but voice as an enduring string within a writer’s work.
Scrawlings from the panel talk below.
A voice is a literary act.
Try to find the voice by hearing the rhythm for the sentence first. In this sense dialogue is easier to write than narrative. We assume that the narrator is somehow objective, and that they are able to go equally into the mind of a male, and then a female. In this sense the narrator is like a sprite, which flits in between characters, the scene. Or, mechanically a camera, that is sometimes fixed, sometimes not.
As the reader, you are allowed to go into some characters’ minds, but not others.
Agbabi, a poet, stated that she reads out her text. Clanchy does not. Pullman does, but not audibly – he reckoned that the words need to go into the mouth, to hear the rhythm.
The idea of the ‘story arc’ was not spoken of before the advent of cinema.
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Space Invaders comes to Melbourne
The exhibition that was on at the NGA has come down to Melbourne!
From 2 September – 5 November 2011
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Love is where the mail is
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UQ Gallery
The Space Invaders exhibition that ran at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is travelling to QLD! My zine will probably be part of the show at UQ Gallery! The exhibition runs from 9 April – 5 June 2011.
Wonder if it will come down to Melbourne…
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National Library of Australia
Audrey & Audrey was picked up by someone from the National Library of Australia!
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Space Invaders
So I went to Canberra on a rather cloudy day…and took the bus to the National Gallery of Australia…
And went up the stairs to the project gallery…
And looked inside…
And had a look at the zines…
Then went downstairs to the zine fair…
And then went back home. They were also doing some graffiti art outside but I forgot to take photos!
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Space Invaders
My work will be part of the Space Invaders exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. The free exhibition will run from 30 October 2010 to 27 February 2011.
The National Gallery is open 10:00 am – 5:00 pm.
In conjunction with this exhibition, on Saturday 30th of October, Sticky Institute will be holding a zine fair from 11:00-4:00pm.
I’m also thrilled to learn that Audrey and Audrey has been acquired by the Australian Prints and Drawings department at the NGA. Perhaps it will be kept in an archival box three drawers down and four to the left from Degas?
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