In Guardian Australia’s weekly interview about objects, the cultural icon talks about things that bring her happy memories – and one thing she really hates
Three things with Wendy Whiteley: ‘My daughter died, so it’s a real emotional connection to her being very much alive’
Returning to comparatively sleepy Sydney might have felt like a step down – but Whiteley loved their Lavender Bay home so much that it didn’t matter. Many of Brett’s most famous paintings were produced from its balcony, which offers a prime view of the harbour. The family lived there until the late 1980s, when the couple divorced. They had both battled heroin addiction but, while Wendy managed to get clean, Brett died from an overdose in 1992. Arkie later died from cancer in 2001.
Here, Whiteley tells us about the most cherished and most useful items in a home rich with history – both the personal and the culturally significant.There’s a lot of things, but what I would really hate to lose is a mouse hand puppet that Arkie I made together when she was in kindergarten, just after we first got back to live in Sydney.
I’ve come to realise that I’m incredibly attached to it, particularly because it was made for Arkie and we all made it together. My daughter died, and Brett died too. So it’s a real emotional connection her being very much alive and young and the beginning of a life, rather than the end of her life. It’s a memory of a very happy time – she was so excited to take it to school.A well-seasoned cast iron fry-pan – the old-fashioned kind, when they used to come from Spain.
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