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Note: Art work by Garry Shead, introduction by Sasha Grishin.
Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Garry Shead : The Apotheosis of Ern Malley
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Garry Shead interleaves the poetry of 'Ern Malley' with paintings interpreting each poem's theme.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Woollahra, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Voigt Drury Publishing , 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Apotheosis of Ern Malley, Sasha Grishin , single work criticism

'Garry Shead is an artist who has kept a journal - a cross between a sketchbook and a diary - for much of his life. In one such volume of this journal, there is a title written in white littering on the black cover: 'Malley Book 1'. In it there is a remarkable series of ten consecutive drawings executed in six days between 12th September to 18th September 2002.'

As Shead wrote in his journal 'Who is Ern Malley/is he two men/ a creation - the figure of Jesus Christ?' After years of thinking, experimentation and a large number of photographic collages, this was the first coherent series of drawings by Garry Shead devoted to Ern Malley, a theme which has become one of the central concerns of his art, and which has found expression in a major series of paintings, drawings, three-dimensional ceramics, collages and etchings.'

(p. 9-37)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Australian Galleries , 2008 .
      Extent: 143p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      Description: illus. (chiefly col.)
      Note/s:
      • This book was first published in 2008, but Garry Shead was disappointed with the quality of reproductions. The book was re-released, in a new edition, in 2009.
      • Preface by Barry Pearce.
      ISBN: 9780980576504
    • Woollahra, Sydney Eastern Harbourside, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Voigt Drury Publishing , 2008 .
      Extent: 143p.
      Edition info: 2nd edition
      Description: 143 p. : ill. (chielfly col.)
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: Dedicated to Ernest Lalor Malley (1918-1943)
      • Epigraph: 'Who is Ern Malley/ is he two men/ a creation - The figure of Jesus Christ?' - Carry Shead (2002)
      • Includes Preface by Barry Pearce, dated August 2006.
      ISBN: 9780958975957

Works about this Work

Malley Has the Last Laugh Larry Buttrose , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 June 2009; (p. 37)

— Review of Garry Shead : The Apotheosis of Ern Malley Garry Shead , Sasha Grishin , 2008 single work non-fiction
Malley Has the Last Laugh Larry Buttrose , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13-14 June 2009; (p. 37)

— Review of Garry Shead : The Apotheosis of Ern Malley Garry Shead , Sasha Grishin , 2008 single work non-fiction
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