The sixth day of Melbourne Rare Book Week and a truly diverse range of talks to attend and sketch at. JOHN LEWIN: COLONIAL BIRDMAN State Library Victoria Alisa Bunbury A few fortunate people gathered around a table to view John Lewin’s Birds of New South Wales, published in 1813, was the first natural history book […]
Today there were five Melbourne Rare Books Week events on. I attended three and sketched at two . Ii was a BIG day for me as the last event of the day was my talk and through my exhibition “You Can’t Draw in Books?” 700 YEARS OF DANTE State Library Victoria Dr Anna Welch Italian […]
A quiet Sunday, with only two Melbourne Rare Book Week events on today. REMINISCENCES OF SECOND HAND BOOKSHOPS IN MELBOURNE: 1970-2015 John Arnold is an Associate Professor at Monash University lecturing in publishing and communications. He has been involved in the second-hand book trade as a dealer and collector for over forty years. In this […]
Melbourne Rare Book Week hosted six events today. Some were at the same times, so I had to make a choice about which ones to attend and sketch at. The decision was made easily, as one, A Walk on the Mean Streets, was going to have more sketching potential than the others. The day […]
Yesterday was the start of Melbourne Rare Book Week. I have an exhibition and I have also been invited to sketch at the events. I will be sketching at 20 of the 55 events of this ‘week’ (which is actually ten days) and posting on my blog each evening. I have tried to visit […]
The countdown is really on to two BIG events for me. Melbourne Rare Book Week in two weeks and UK holiday in three weeks. Here is an update. HOLIDAY Three weeks to go ’til we leave on holidays to the UK – here is this weeks envelope to Mum. I a not at prolific this […]
A few sketches this week. A wonderful on location event to sketch at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library for Melbourne Rare Book Week. The inaugural Gary Morgan Oration by Andrew May on Mwelbourne Inc “Little laws and the shaping of a frontier town.” some sketches from the week. Some quick sketches in ink only. Others are […]
I write a blog post at this time each year looking back at what I have done during the previous year with my art. I have found this is a very useful way of realising how much I have accomplished in a year, as I usually forget about some events or do not realise how […]
This week is part two of my sketches as the official “sketcher on Location” for Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) . Last week’s blog covered the first three days. The motto for Melbourne Rare Book Week is For the Love of Books. Melbourne Rare Book Week began in 2011 and after a COVID-19-induced hiatus, Rare […]
Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) has begun. It is a Melbourne-wide program of free talks and events that celebrate the importance of books and literature in life. It was been running since 2012 and this is the first MRBW after a three-year break due to Covid. It culminates in the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, which […]