Small blue and red, bound notebook, 1988? Digital

The book starts at the back (as Arkley advises at the front p.9); includes notes, possibly for his Farrago 1989 essay, concerning childhood memories, the idea of his work as a ‘celebration of the ordinary’ and suburbia as his focus; also planning notes for 1988 ‘Casual Works’ exhibition, including comments on the idea of recycling older works (arabesque patterning etc.); p.13 ff - several pages headed ‘start ideas for house show’, with source images, notes re factory imagery (‘ref. Jan Senbergs’,); also ‘working ideas for ICA Brisbane’, ‘suburban inside-outside’, and comment: ‘I would now describe myself as an outsider from the truly suburban environment and lifestyle’; p. 49 cluster of blank pages sticky taped together at bottom and top; p. 55-68 ideas and notes on suburban paintings.