Mitchell Library Reading Room looking north, 2015
Charcoal,
ink and watercolour on machine made paper
ML
1329
In
March this year, artist John Bokor was the first artist in residence in our Drawing the Library program:
‘It
was the light and calm of the reading room that stayed with me for a long while
... There is a timeless quality to the space — all the people immersed in their
thoughts. It’s like a temple to the beautiful world of books and to the human
imagination.’
John
Bokor, SL Magazine, Autumn 2015
I
am looking forward to drawing from the upper level in the Mitchell Library
Reading Room. Trying to capture the light and the people sitting at tables. Of
course, what you end up with is rarely what you set out to create.
Q&A with John Bokor,
SL Magazine, Autumn 2015
WHAT
WAS YOUR IMPRESSION OF THE MITCHELL LIBRARY READING ROOM WHEN YOU VISITED FOR
THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL’S QUIET VOLUME IN 2013?
It
was the light and calm of the reading room that stayed with me for a long while
after seeing the Quiet Volume. There is a timeless quality to the space — all
the people immersed in their thoughts. It’s like a temple to the beautiful
world of books and to the human imagination.
Q&A with John Bokor,
SL Magazine, Autumn 2015
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