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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 A Year with Wendy Whiteley : Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening
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'We sit at the table, opposite each other, a tape recorder and a microphone between us, and I begin by saying that I don’t want to start with Brett. ‘That’s a good idea.’ Wendy looks at me and smiles. ‘I didn’t start with Brett.’

'These days Wendy Whiteley is a legendary figure in the art world, the keeper of the Brett Whiteley legacy, best known for creating the Secret Garden on the land below her house on Sydney Harbour. But before she met Brett, Wendy was herself a budding artist; her creative work ever since has been under-recognised.

'Wendy is a survivor: of drug dependence, bitter divorce, the deaths of Brett and their beloved daughter, Arkie. More than that, she is a remarkable figure whose life has had its own contours and priorities. Now in her early eighties—reflective yet outspoken, with a dry wit—she has much to tell about it.

'The product of many hours of candid conversations at the kitchen table in Lavender Bay with acclaimed Brett Whiteley biographer Ashleigh Wilson, and supplemented by extensive research and interviews with others, this is the unforgettable story of Wendy’s life.'  (Publication summary)

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 304p.
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      •  Published November 2022

      ISBN: 9781922458803

Works about this Work

Book Review: A Year with Wendy Whiteley, Ashleigh Wilson Cherie Gilmour , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2022;

— Review of A Year with Wendy Whiteley : Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening Ashleigh Wilson , 2022 single work biography

'A biography of an artist and iconoclast in her own right.'

The Artful Survivor Rosemary Neill , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29 October 2022; (p. 6)

— Review of A Year with Wendy Whiteley : Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening Ashleigh Wilson , 2022 single work biography
The Artful Survivor Rosemary Neill , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29 October 2022; (p. 6)

— Review of A Year with Wendy Whiteley : Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening Ashleigh Wilson , 2022 single work biography
Book Review: A Year with Wendy Whiteley, Ashleigh Wilson Cherie Gilmour , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , November 2022;

— Review of A Year with Wendy Whiteley : Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening Ashleigh Wilson , 2022 single work biography

'A biography of an artist and iconoclast in her own right.'

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