Living up to its name, this exhibition, curated by Books Illustrated, has been exhibited in many venues around rural and urban Australia, and also overseas in Japan and Taiwan. "Even though I don't live here anymore I still feel very much a part of the place," she says.Feature image: original illustration by Alison Lester. Wandering down the streets of Fish Creek where her exhibition is showing, Alison says she still gets recognised by locals, even if it is being mistaken for her sister who also lives in the area. "It's been a lovely thing that they've all picked up and been writers in one form or another," she says. Now her own kids ask her to proof read their own writing.
Before I had children I was very un-ambitious and happy to float along from one travel or party to the next," she says. "It seemed to me that the kids are what galvanised me into doing something. "Part of that was that it was such as lovely experience that when I drew those pictures I rarely ever used references, just images in my head," she says.Īlison says if it wasn't for having children she probably wouldn't have considered being a children's author and illustrator. She says the illustrations reflect a time when she was at "the top of game". "Wherever I travel overseas there's always some Aussies who pop up and go 'Hey we've got Are We There Yet?', I think it's a book that you send to anyone who's in another place to remind them of Australia," Alison says. She says the book reminds many Aussies abroad, of home soils. The illustrations in the exhibition depict the dusty red roads of the outback and the sandy shores of pristine beaches. We say that it kind of gave us emotional glue that has stuck us all together really well, that time of just being on the road together," she says. "I love those memories of that trip and as a family we all like it too. As Alison reflects on the exhibition, she thinks back to the journey that inspired the book made across the Western Australian deserts in a caravan with her children in 1994.
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