Shortly before Harry Seidler's recent illness, he began working with Professor Tom Heneghan on the selection of drawings for this exhibition.

The exhibition presents sketches from the drawing board of a working architect. Most are sketch plans, where Harry can be seen working and re-working and re-working the plan of a house, or of an office building, continually testing ideas. While they are not intentionally artworks in themselves, many have a beautiful fluidity of graphic form and can be read as exercises in the placing of line against and with line, while they are, more accurately, exercises in the placing of planes and space.

The theme of the exhibition is this shaping of space. This is not a retrospective of Seidler's architecture. Instead, the selected drawings and photographs focus on his concern for framing and enfolding the activities and movements of his buildings' users, and the resulting manipulation of the void - the space - at which he has such demonstrated mastery.

The most fascinating aspect of these sketches, perhaps, is the window they open into the creative process of this remarkable architect - a usually unseen, sometimes secret process in which the architect is in dialogue with himself. By the manner in which they are laid on the paper, the ink and pencil lines reveal certainty, but sometimes tentativeness; occasionally frustration; often elation. The exhibition brings into public view the creative energy from which many of the most significant buildings of Australia have been born.