Artist in Residency at Melbourne Athenaeum Library

I am very excited to be the 2024 Artist in Residence at Melbourne Athenaeum Library. Melbourne Athenaeum Library Our 2024 artist-in-residence has been locked in – Melbourne artist Alissa Duke. Alissa Duke is a law librarian who loves books: to read, to draw and, sometimes, to draw in. She sketches daily, documenting everyday events, objects […]

Travel Sketching – Melbourne Library Service

On Saturday I held the first of three Travel Sketching walks in conjunction with Melbourne Library Service at my local library. My previous  Travel Sketching with Melbourne Library Service  was in June last year. The three walks are all booked out.  After a short introduction inside to watercolour pencils and the idea of travel sketching, we headed […]

My cards at State Library of Victoria

The last few weeks have involved some very exciting events for me and my art. My greeting cards are now for sale at The State Library of Victoria at Readings Bookshop and the Law Institute of Victoria Bookshop. The greeting cards at State Library of Victoria include my drawings of library books, library ladders, feathers and […]

Library coffee cups

Today was my work Christmas party. It was held in the tearoom at work, everyone bringing a plate of food and taking the time to  relax. My contribution to the lunch (along with bread and juice) were these paper coffee cups that I had drawn on. They are  drawings of the Supreme Court of Victoria.  The library that […]

Books on shelves in the Library

  Another drawing of the library I work in. I have not included any of the  library ladders  that I have drawn previously. This time, I wanted to focus on the ‘bookishness’ of the library. This particular area with the book shelves above the doorway, leading into another room of books seems to exemplify this. These are the […]