Box MS F BOX 4258

Contains a series of pasted-in photographs of jewellery, furniture etc. (evidently clipped from magazines), with added Arkley doodles. Some pages, now blank, include traces of images apparently removed.

Includes three cactoid sketches in black fibre-tipped pen; comparable with some sketches in Arkley’s Mills & Boon books from the same period. Other pages have apparently been removed from this sketch-book.

Notable contents include: a series of pencil and/or black air-brushed drawings of heads near the start; several cactoid compositions, one signed and dated ‘HA 84’ (p. 47); three signed drawings (p.69); and black fibre-tipped pen sketch titled ‘Suburban Kitchen Tables’ [sic] (p. 79).

Wide-format ‘Spirax’ brand sketchbook, titled on cover 24 pages; 24.5 x 27.0 x 0.5 cm; contains a significant series of sketches of stylized cactoid heads in black fibre-tipped pen, several ticked in pencil; dating for the mid 1980s.

The first half of the block (p.1-102) contains a series of black fibre-tipped pen doodles of skulls and the like.

Also contains drawings on the back cover and inside back cover.

The last part of this book is blank, but the opening section contains a series of black fibre-tipped pen drawings, many noted as made in Chapel Street (Prahran); most of the drawings show heads, some in the doubled-line technique Arkley explored particularly in 1985, and others are of cacti; three drawings towards the end of the sequence, in lighter black/grey fibre-tipped pen, evidently date from later in Arkley’s career; one is signed and dated: HA 97.