Marlies Pekarek

Time Shifts, Patterns Stay the Same by Marlies Pekarek features selected texts from her art diaries, which she began during her studies in Australia and has continued to this day. This book takes inspiration from the Australian Woman's Diaries, an annual calendar with diary sections for personal notes, stories about women in Australia, and nostalgic illustrations and texts from historical...

During her stay in Australia from 1992 to 1994, Marlies Pekarek got to know the comic artist Geraldine Searles. A friendship formed, and the two artists discovered that, while their pictorial language differed significantly, the choice of their motifs was very similar. The comic A Cautionary Tale takes Marlies Pekarek's sugar sculpture, The Sugar Queen, on a journey. Geraldine Searles...