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Both articles were written to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Ballarat Botanical GardensThe Ballarat Botanical Gardens provide "a microcosm of the world's flora" according to the Professor de Kretser, Governor of Victoria, whereas the Stoddart statues are testament to the generous benefactors who saw to the adornment of the Gardens. A newspaper clipping with a coloured picture on each side, print on the right and left side of pages 1&2 respectively.Written in blue biro at top of p.1 Courier 27/9/2007john garner, doctor, john garner collection, ballarat botanical gardens, friends of ballarat botanical gardens, ballarat courier newspaper, 150th anninversary of the ballarat botanical gardens, governor of victoria, new caledonia pine tree, stoddart statues greeting cards, professor david de kretser, gardens, ballarat

A large ornate brass brooch with a highly decorated swirled surround, a glass cover which has displayed underneath it locks of hair on a white background. There is a pin on the back to attach it to clothing. It is stored in a cardboard brown and cream patterned box with cotton wool.Locks of hair are seen under the glass cover both front and back.jewellery, personal adornment, sentimental jewellery, brooches

An oval gold locket with 12 small pink coral stones mounted on a raised cross on the front. It has a black velvet ribbon to tie it around the neck. Inside are two tiny locks of hair mounted on a pale purple piece of cardboard with a plastic surround.sentimental jewellery, personal adornments, lockets, hinged jewellery

Jenna Lee dissects and reconstructs colonial 'Indigenous dictionaries' and embeds the works with new cultural meaning. Long obsessed with the duality of the destructive and healing properties that fire can yield, this element has been applied to the paper in the forms of burning and mark-making. In Without Us, Lee uses charcoal to conceal the text on the page, viewing this process as a ritualistic act of reclaiming and honouring Indigenous heritage while challenging the oppressive legacies of colonialism. Lee explains in Art Guide (2022), ‘These books in particular [used to create the proposed works] are Aboriginal language dictionaries—but there’s no such thing as “Aboriginal language”. There are hundreds of languages. The dictionary just presents words, with no reference to where they came from. It was specifically published by collating compendiums from the 1920s, 30s and 40s, with the purpose to give [non-Indigenous] people pleasant sounding Aboriginal words to name children, houses and boats. And yet the first things that were taken from us was our language, children, land and water. And the reason our words were so widely written down was because [white Australians] were trying to eradicate us. They thought we were going extinct. The deeper you get into it, the darker it gets. But the purpose of my work is to take those horrible things and cast them as something beautiful.’Framed artwork