Author Archives: Justine van Mourik
Moving on from Handwritten (almost, but not quite)
I’m sure many Library visitors will miss the richness, beauty and textures of the manuscripts they saw in Handwritten. I, for one, will greatly miss the privilege of seeing works by Mozart, Bach, Michelangelo and Galileo on a regular basis. … Continue reading
Making a simple illuminated letter
On 19 February, Gemma Black led a workshop on illuminated manuscripts taking inspiration from books in Handwritten. Based in Hobart, Gemma is an internationally-distinguished calligrapher, Churchill Fellow, and Honoured Fellow of the prestigious Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society, United Kingdom. … Continue reading
The Handwritten Ensemble
For musicians, the Handwritten exhibition offered a rare, and treasured, opportunity; to see fifteen of the most celebrated pieces in the Western canon – pieces we have spent our lives performing, studying and listening to with such great pleasure – … Continue reading
Handwritten closes
When Handwritten closed at midnight last night – we extended opening hours for the last weekend – 73,000 visitors had passed through the Exhibition Gallery. This is a wonderful result and makes this the third most popular show ever at … Continue reading
Handwritten in the news – part 2
Given the breadth of individual human achievement represented in Handwritten, it’s no surprise that every day there is a new discovery or event related to the authors whose manuscripts feature in the exhibition. Just last month several letters by Albert … Continue reading
Handwritten at the movies
There is only one week left of the Handwritten exhibition, it will close to the public on Sunday 18 March. If you are like me and don’t want your fabulous exhibition experience to fade, you might consider some of the … Continue reading
Handwritten in the news
Recently a number of news items have highlighted that many of the manuscripts and people in Handwritten still have relevance today. While defending Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange against extradition to Sweden his lawyers quoted from the Codex Iustinianus. Originally … Continue reading
Handwritten ‘lefties’
The other day whilst in the exhibition a left-handed visitor asked our left-handed security guard Steve if anyone had figured out how many of the authors of manuscripts in the exhibition were ‘lefties’. As one of three southpaws in the … Continue reading
Installing Handwritten
There are things that crawl inside the walls and for the past few weeks, our team has been one of them. The design concept for this amazing exhibition was created by Uli Lechtleitner and Thomas Wolter from Berlin architectural firm … Continue reading
