Series 1: Kingston manuscript and printed material, includes photographs, with short film 'Sharknet Seahorses of Balmoral'

MLMSS 12090/Box 1-2
MLMSS 12090/Box 3X
DC 129

series

approximately 1950, 1964-2021

Graphic Materials, Ephemera, Photographs, Textual Records, Drawings, Moving Images

9677533

0.62 metres of textual material (2 boxes, 1 outsize box), includes photographs - manuscript, typescript, clippings, ephemera
1 videodisc (12 min.) - DVD - 12 cm

BOX 1
1. Visitor's Book at Coo-ee and 4 Winds, 1975-1979
Casebound sketchbook [book block has separated from spine], 29 x 21 x 4 cm.
Contains visitors' details, comments and sketches, recipes, Kingston's sketches, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, ephemera inserted. Includes multiple sketches by Arkie Whitely and drawings of 'dinner at Brett's'. Coo-ee was located at 3 Walker Street, Lavender Bay, and 4 Winds at 48 Sunrise Rd, Palm Beach (from 9 May 1979)
Title on spine: Lochgyle Visitors Book

2. Mock up for A-Z artists' book, [1989?]
Screw-bound cloth covered notebook, 20 x 26 x 3 cm.
Signed hand-drawn sheet glued to front cover. Includes 4 individual prints, plus original drawings loosely inserted and newsclippings inserted or pasted in

3. Bed of Oysters scrapbook and Phillip Adams' launch speech for Bed of Oysters, 1999
Staple-bound scrapbook, 33 x 25 cm.
Newsclippings, photographs, and correspondence documenting the launch of 'Bed of Oysters' at D.S. Murray Bookbinders, Gowings Building Sydney, 22 June 1999. Includes a pasted in copy of Phillip Adam's launch speech. May Gibbs' illustration of Little Obelia is pasted to cover with photocopied photos of Phillip Adams with Peter Kingston and Martin Sharp.
Includes additional copy of Philip Adam's launch speech and copy of review in Spectrum, The Sydney Herald, 19 June 1999.

4. Blinky Bill at Nutcote, approximately 1996-2003
Loose A4 sheets in folder
Research and correspondnce file containing material related to Nutcote: preparation for exhibition 'Blinky Bill at Nutcote: from May Gibbs to Bruce Petty'; photocopies of cartoons; correspondence, including with Yvonne Hyde (Archivist May Gibbs Society) re donation of comic strips by Kingston and Martin Sharp; 'the Daily Bark'; new publications of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie; work on the Bib and Bub tearooms at Nutcote; also includes material related to Hinchinbrook.
Cover has pasted sheet titled: Nutcote News incorporating the Daily Bark, Blinky Bill at Nutcote' with an image of Blinky Bill and extra pasted cartoon of the Banksia Men.

5. Photographs of Nutcote Bib and Bub sculpture installation, March 2000
1 spiral-bound album (20 photographic prints), 15 x 23 cm.
Album compiled by Yvonne Hyde (archivist May Gibbs Society) documenting the installation of Kingston's Bib and Bub sculptures at Nutcote.

15. Portaabning handmade scrapbook, 2020
1 of 3 copies produced. Created to tell the story of the installation of a sculpture in Potts Point, based on a design by Jan Utzon (son of Jorn Utzon), a copy of a sculpture he created in Sydney and which is now in his home in Denmark. Jan called it 'Portaabning' [Gateway] - a symbol of friendship between the Utzon family and the people of Sydney.


BOX 2
6. From Ooty to Katoomba scrapbook, 2000-2006
Staple-bound scrapbook, 33 x 25 cm.
Research material, travel itineraries, correspondence with Jan Cork, sketches, photographs and printed ephemera, loose and pasted in, related to planned travels in India, inlcuding riding Nilgiri Express and Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. Genesis of artists' books 'Indian Train Journey' and 'Nilgiri Mountain Express'.

7. Christmas at St Vincent's, Vol. 1
8. Christmas at St Vincent's, Vol. 2
9. Christmas at St Vincent's, Vol. 3
Three A4 sketchbooks containing original pen sketches of Kingston's time in St Vincents Hospital after his cancer diagnosis, including self portraits, drawings of staff, visitors (including Elizabeth Cummings, Barry Pearce, Luke Sciberras, Jan Cork and his sister Fairlie), fellow patients, medication. Vol. 2 contains manuscript notes about voluntary euthanasia. Vol. 3 includes 'Christmas at Kinghorn; Fellow Travelers', original sketches done as an outpatient at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre 2021.

10. Oz magazines, September 1964-February 1969
Issue 13 (September 1964); Issue 18 (April 1965); Final issue (February 1969); Copy of Issue 4 (July 1963); copies of various pages.
Peter Kingston was in the art department of the magazine.

16. Wheel of Fortune artists' book, [1988]
Notes, sketches and documents related to the development of the Wheel of Fortune book.

17. Correspondence between Peter Kingston and Priscilla Juvelis (Kingston's American book dealer), 15 July 1992-22 November 1993.


BOX 3X
11. Facsimilie copy of May Gibbs' 'Bib and Bub in Gumnut Town'
Bound colour photocopies, 25 x 28 cm.
No annotations. Peter Kingston address stamp in rear of book. Original creator May Gibbs

12. Facsimilie copy of Billy de Beck's 'Barney Google and his Faithful Nag Spark Plug'
Black and white photocopied booklet with handmade cover, 30 x 28 cm. Handmade photocopied facsimilie by Peter Kingston. Original creator Billy de Beck, originally published 1923

13. The Faraway Tree / Enid Blyton; cover by Peter Kingston. London : Dean, 2012
Personal copy of 2012 publication of Enid Blyton book with illustrations by Georgina Hargreaves. Extra illustrated cover and first 11 pages by Kingston and annotated to show his 'horror' at this edition's 'decorations'.
Printed on back cover: 'This artwork was donated to the Judge a Book, Buy its Cover art exhibition and auction, held in October 2013. Sydney Story Factory would like to thank everyone who generously contributed their time and talent.

14. Illustrated Guide to Taronga Park Zoological Park and Aquarium, approximately 1950
Published guide to Taronga Zoo, 13 x 22 cm.
Unannotated, likely research material for prints about Taronga Zoo.


DC 129
Sharknet Seahorses of Balmoral
Film and audio by Peter Kingston, dated 17.4.2013.
Video file, 12 mins. Film documenting the artists' book 'Sharket Seahorses of Balmoral'. Includes images of linocuts from the book, intercut with original footage of ferries, footage from 'Shirley Thompson verses the Aliens 1971', footage of Alan Jones in altercation with SMH journalists and footage of Phantom cartoons. Accompanied by curated soundtrack.

Access via appointment - Applies to DC 129 - Onsite access only

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Peter Kingston
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, and Courtesy copyright holder

File 10: Three issues of Oz Magazine were acquired by Peter Kingston from Douglas Stewart Fine Books.
Items 10-14 printed material retained with this collection due to being copies or editions annotated by the artist or relevant to his work.

Peter Kingston - State Library of New South Wales (8 June 2024 - 1 May 2025) . Applies to Box 1 item1, item 2 and Box 2 items 7,8 and 9