1.1 'Interventions' and doodles: Mills & Boon books

Context and description below, copied from the Arkley Works website: http://arkleyworks.com/?page_id=9462:

During 1984 (in particular), and for several years following, Arkley made a series of drawings in recycled copies of romantic novels originally published by Mills & Boon in the 1950s and 60s (de-accessioned by the Prahran CAE library, formerly the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute, as evident from labels on the covers of several copies). Typically, the drawings were made in black fibre-tipped pen, on odd-numbered (right hand) pages, owing to the ink bleeding through onto the reverse. The compositions ranged from quick doodled cacti and abstract forms to more considered figurative images, including a number of life drawings.