Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation Ashleigh Wilson chats with Gabriella about his book: A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
- Ashleigh Wilson shares his inspiration for writing A Year with Wendy Whiteley: Conversations About Art, Life and Gardening and why he refers to the book as a conversational portrait rather than as a biography.
- Ashleigh explains why he opened the book with a detailed description of Wendy Whiteley’s kitchen table.
- He discloses why he framed each chapter around a particular topic and why he kept returning to the kitchen table as the central anchor.
- Ashleigh reveals how knowing Wendy Whiteley influenced how he portrayed her and the complexities of writing about a living subject.
- He also outlines the novelistic devices he employed to evoke an authentic portrayal of Australia’s art world in the 1960s and 70s, and the extent to which he interpreted Wendy’s character and behaviour versus providing facts and clues and leaving it to readers to form their own interpretations.
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