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Unexpected Finds

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June–July 2003, no. 252

HEAT 4: Burnt ground edited by Ivor Indyk

$23.95, 239 pp

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Meanjin: Reads their lips edited by Meanjin

$19.95, 234 pp

Unexpected Finds

by
June–July 2003, no. 252

The fourth issue in the new series of Heat, Burnt Ground, reproduces on the cover a segment of a beautiful watercolour by John Wolseley, wrought from his six-month stay in Sydney’s fire-flattened Royal National Park in early 2002. Along with many noteworthy contributions, a further eighteen colour pages of Wolseley’s lush sketches, entitled ‘Bushfire Journals’, make it an issue to treasure. Wolseley has written a diary to accompany his pictures, which tells us how ‘new shoots at the base of many of the burnt shrubs … spume out of their black bases like an army of bunsen burners’, and also illumines his unorthodox approach. With the help of a friend, he rubbed a vast roll of paper along the trees and over the ground: ‘a Banksia[’s] …sooty knobbly bark left a passage of black scales on the paper as if a huge reptile had moved over it.’ Wolseley’s narrative is more uneven than his sketches, but offers valuable insights into the way a painter digests and regurgitates his chosen material.

HEAT 4: Burnt ground

HEAT 4: Burnt ground

edited by Ivor Indyk

$23.95, 239 pp

Meanjin: Reads their lips

Meanjin: Reads their lips

edited by Meanjin

$19.95, 234 pp

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