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Alice Kettle (b.1961)
Australian Landscapes /I (detail)
Machine-embroidered hanging
Main Reading Room

Australian Landscapes II is one of a series of four machine-embroidered panels, 'Australian Landscapes I-IV', by the English textile-artist Alice Kettle. They were given to the Library by former Director-General Warren Horton in memory of his wife Patsy Hardy, a friend and regular user of the Library. The panels took 18 months to create and Kettle estimates she used five million stitches in the process. A rich mixture of gold, ochres, reds and blues, the panels represent a commentary on the relationship between the Library and its readers, and people and the landscape. Kettle claimed her inspiration was drawn from time spent 'watching the people in the Reading Room; listening to the sounds of Australia in the oral archive; holding original works of art in the Pictures Collection; and walking among the many miles of books in the stacks'.

 

June 2004 Volume XIV Number 9

GETTING A DIFFERENT VIEW

Paul Cliff reveals how he compiled the National Library’s publication A Different View: The National Library of Australia and Its Building Art

THE LAST COLONY: THE PORTUGUESE IN MACAU

Stuart Braga tells the fascinating story of the world’s most enduring European colony

AN AMERICAN POET FINDS AUSTRALIA

Patricia Clarke describes Harry Roskolenko’s contributions to the Australian literary scene during and after the last World War

BEATING THE ODDS

Elizabeth Nelson listened to Peter Coleman’s sensitive interviews with the Australian writer known as Amy Witting before outlining her adult life and work

THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: HOME OF AUSTRALIA'S FOURTH ESTATE

Judy Cannon traces the glory days of one of our liveliest public forums

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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