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Isabella Gullifer-Laurie Isabella Gullifer-Laurie i(16811962 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Anna Kate Blair The Modern Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 30 September - 6 October 2023;
— Review of The Modern Anna Kate Blair , 2023 single work novel

'“I want a surface that resists, like a wall, not opens, like a gate,” wrote the painter Grace Hartigan in 1956. Associated for a time with the abstract expressionist movement, she depicted the bridal shop windows of Manhattan with roughened gestures and vivid hues. In Anna Kate Blair’s debut novel, The Modern, Hartigan is something of a muse for the narrator, Sophia, who is completing her dissertation on the artist while she works at MoMA.' (Publication summary)
1 The Long and the Short of It : Jen Craig’s Wall Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , July 2023;
— Review of Wall Jen Craig , 2023 single work novel 'I first heard of Jen Craig when she was interviewed by Michael Silverblatt on his KCRW radio program Bookworm. Her novel Panthers and the Museum of Fire had found publication with the American publisher Zerogram Press. There was some talk of the influence of Thomas Bernhard and WG Sebald, the difficulty of making a sentence and spinning a clay vessel on a wheel—a shared problem of concentration and balance. When I tried to find her book here, I could not—but now Panthers, alongside the slim 2010 volume Since the Accident, have been reissued with Puncher & Wattmann, who have also published her third book Wall.' (Introduction) 
 
1 Drift Mode Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , December vol. 81 no. 4 2022; (p. 237)
— Review of Googlecholia Michael Farrell , 2022 selected work poetry
1 Contiguity Isabella Gullifer-Laurie , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 81 no. 2 2022; (p. 214-217) Meanjin Online 2022;
— Review of Theory of Colours Bella Li , 2021 selected work poetry art work
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