Giulia Neri trained in fine arts in Bologna, where she was born, then took a degree in psychology, specialised in psychotherapy, and practised as a psychologist for years. The illustrations came later, and at first alongside the clinical work - drawings about the same material she had been listening to in the consulting room: feelings, the inner weather of a person. In time the drawings took over. She is now a full-time conceptual illustrator, working from a village in the Italian Dolomites. This notebook's cover, front and back, is hers. It is part of Bonvini's Quaderni d'Autore - a series of notebooks made with artists who work alongside the historic Milan stationery shop on its broader cultural programme of exhibitions, residencies and publications. The spine is Singer-stitched - the visible machine-sewn seam that holds the signatures and lets the book lie flat. The paper inside is made in Italy from post-consumer recycled stock, blank, for whatever the owner needs to put there. Exclusive to Australia.
