When Nick Cave was in Melbourne just before the exhibition opened in November

2007; he set himself up in an office at the Arts Centre and started writing. Nick

began to write stories about some of the objects in Nick Cave: The Exhibition:

things we had been curious about like the ‘Sacred and Profane’ notebook and

‘The Weather Diaries’.  And he kept writing and writing: beautiful things like how

he met his wife Susie; funny adventures such as ‘The Sculpture’ intended for the

country town of Warracknabeal, his birthplace; and unique insights into his

relationships with other musicians such as his childhood hero Johnny Cash who

recorded ‘The Mercy Seat’.

These stories emerged from that office so prodigiously and so perfectly that they

became an integral part of the exhibition: an alternate storyline that you can both

listen to and read offering further ways in which to understand Nick Cave’s

creative life and imagination.