Shyness

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• The quiet Welsh painter Gwen John was not like any other artist, male or female – she was genuinely unique.
• She did not paint loud, macho work that took up a whole wall, nor sexy, objectified nudes, nor abstract forms, like many male modernists.
• She was fiercely herself, making small, intimate, idiosyncratic paintings that share a definite style and palette over the course of her career.
• They did not have the ascetic, saint-like drive John had to be an artist at all costs.

Romantic life of an artist

• Whistler’s teaching, which focused on establishing a full palette before beginning a painting, was something John carried with her all her life.
• She was, in many ways, living the romanticised life of a starving artist.
• John’s Catholicism in the second half of her life crystalised what was essentially a sacred calling for her to work as an artist.
• She was obsessed with recently canonised saints and strove to live her life in a saintlike way.

A quiet but powerful legacy

• This show resolutely makes the claim that John’s life is its own work of art, and engages with the nuances of a woman who eschewed the norms of both sexes to make her own way.
• It also made me fully recognise for the first time the real ruthlessness with which John lived her life.
• The recluse narrative she has been reduced to suggests that she was somehow held back in some way by shyness or poverty.

• The last time I saw Gabrielle Carey, who died this week, aged 64, was a couple of weeks ago in Sydney.
• She is still best known as the coauthor, with Kathy Lette, of Puberty Blues (1979), a book she wrote as a teenager.
• But for many of those who knew Gabrielle later in life, she was, among many other things, a “Joycean”, and more particularly, a “Wakean”.
• If you’re finding it hard to make a decision, you can say you’re in “twinsome twominds” and your fellow Wakeans will understand.
• She was in regular correspondence with the leading scholars; she was the author of numerous acclaimed essays on Joyce.

Authors were ‘living beings’ for her

• The first of these was Moving among Strangers: Randolph Stow and my Family, a book which won the Prime Minister’s Award for Non-Fiction in 2013.
• When she pressed him for more, he fell silent, and within a year, he had died.
• It’s also a study of an enigmatic writer who was once internationally acclaimed, but who has now almost disappeared from Australian literary history.
• Falling out of Love with Ivan Southall (2018), as the title suggests, is a similar combination of literary biography and memoir.
• The third of these, Only Happiness Here: in Search of Elizabeth von Arnim (2020), was completed during Gabrielle’s fellowship in Canberra.

‘She works for James Joyce’

• Gabrielle’s final book, James Joyce: A Life, is currently in press.
• As she quipped, it was her “fourth biography and the first about a writer who is still famous”.
• Two of Gabrielle’s acclaimed essays, Waking up with James Joyce and Breaking up with James Joyce, give an indication of the conflicted relationship she maintained with this writer who inspired and infuriated her throughout her life.

Reading groups ‘like jam sessions’

• They would gather over food and wine and take the Wake a page and a line and a word at a time.
• If they got really stuck, they’d turn to Fweet, an online guide to the Wake with more than 90,000 explanatory annotations.
• If somebody came up with a new insight, she’d painstaking note it in even tinier pencil between the existing marginalia.
• Her reading groups were more like jam sessions than scholarly seminars.

The art of living well

• Gabrielle was a teacher of the art of living well.
• Every evening, no matter where you were, Gabrielle would always step outside for a few minutes to watch the sun set.
• A keen gardener, she made tiny pots of fabulously precious jam, that she playfully labelled “Jams Joyce”, from rose-petals harvested from her garden.
• Instead of going to the Art Gallery of New South Wales as I’d planned, I went to the nearby Museum of Contemporary Art at Circular Quay.
• In her last year, Gabrielle had been taking classes in the art of bookbinding, a creative outlet to add to gardening and rose-petal jam, not to mention writing.

• The Orphan Drug Designation highlights the potential to expand the therapeutic profile of ANAVEX2-73 into the largest portion of autism spectrum disorder, Fragile X syndrome, said Christopher U Missling, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of Anavex.
• Orphan drug designation qualifies the sponsor of the drug for certain development incentives, including tax credits for qualified clinical testing, prescription drug user fee exemptions and seven-year marketing exclusivity upon FDA approval.
• The average age of Fragile X syndrome diagnosis for boys and girls are 35 to 37 months and 42 months, respectively.
• Many studies have evaluated the link between Fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorder over the last few decades.