Have you kept any letters from your past self? 💌 This precious handwritten letter addressed to ‘the fairies’ was penned by 7-year-old Patrick White in 1919. In the letter he asks if the fairies can bring him a book for his birthday, and asks if they have tea on the toadstools at night. He also asks if the fairies can bring rain to the country, explaining that “the sheep and cattle are dying. And it would make the influenza better.” Patrick White went on to become one of Australia’s most signifi

Let’s take a look inside. 👀 ‘This Ferral Australis’ by John Hinds is an artists’ book that explores ideas of language, history and colonisation. It’s a concertina book, made from one piece of paper folded back and forth in a zig-zag pattern, and is wrapped in maritime canvas covers with a red wax seal. As you unfold the book, you can see where the artist has printed over facsimiles of colonial publications and documents with animal skulls, antique suns and fake ‘Shakespearean’ sonnets. This is

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