Narrelle M Harris: writer | editor | songwriter | crafter
Words are like oxygen
Melbourne’s City Council has been promoting laneway art projects for many years. In 2002, artist Evangelos Sakaris created Word and Way in Heffernan Lane, a small street linking the ‘Little Greece’ of Lonsdale Street to Little Bourke Street’s Chinatown. Word and Way features quotes from Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu and Greek philosopher Heraclitus depicted as street signs. The signs, affixed […]
» Read moreI first saw Corinne May Botz’s book, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in New York. It is a collection of art photos taken of Frances Glessner Lee’s dollhouse recreations of murder scenes. The dioramas were not merely macabre toys put together by a fan of true crime. Lee painstakingly created the scenarios in the […]
» Read moreThere’s a story that does the rounds that Ernest Hemingway once wrote the shortest, saddest story every told, for a $10 bet. For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. I first heard that six word story when Mary Borsellino told of how she had found it so terribly sad that her friend, artist Audrey Fox, decided to subvert the gloominess of […]
» Read moreThe fabulous Marianne de Pierres (who also writes under Marianne Delacourt) has a new book coming out with Angry Robot books in May 2014. As a teaser, the publisher is releasing the cover art today. Look at the pretty, created by Joey Hi Fi. The book, first in a series, combines, SF, westerns, crime and the paranormal in an Australian setting, […]
» Read moreI’ll always be grateful for Matthew Collings’ 1999 TV series This is Modern Art. It taught me a lot about modern art, for a start, but more importantly it taught me that enjoying a piece of art is very subjective: and so is loathing one, or having no reaction to it at all. I mean, either I respond to a […]
» Read moreMuseums and pop culture – especially SFnal pop culture – never used to occupy the same space. They still don’t, on the whole, but in Warrnambool, a country town in western Victoria, that juxtaposition is on offer until 28 January. The Warrnambool Art Gallery’s Invasion exhibition is housing the touring British exhibition of SF costumes, props, promotional figures and replicas […]
» Read moreIf you are one of those people for whom books repurposed as art gives you hives, look away now. For the rest of us, here are some instructions onhow to turn a damaged or unwanted paperback into a little Xmas tree. Which brings me to the season: and whether it is hot or cold where you reside, whether you celebrate […]
» Read moreAs a booklover, you’d think I would be horrified when people take books and cut them up to make art. You’d be wrong. As always, though, that response is tempered with some ground rules. Essentially, if an artist has taken an book (or even a new one!) and carved its pages to make new art, I don’t really find that […]
» Read moreI was lucky enough to win a competition recently. The prize: a cover for an ebook created by artist and writer, Les Petersen. I’m in the process of compiling a special edition of my Witch Honour and Witch Faith novels, complete with extra material. To your right you’ll see the magnificent cover Les created for the book. I’m delighted with […]
» Read moreA few weekends ago, Tim and I went to Hobart for the weekend to visit the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). We have been anticipating the opening of the museum for some years, partly because of the MONA billboard on the Republic Tower on the corner of LaTrobe and Queen Streets in Melbourne. For years now, odd and […]
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