Submitted to the Bellarine Peninsula Art Show 1988. Won the President's Award.

Colourful view from bathing platform back towards the beach with diving platforms, buildings and garden areageelong waterfront

Prisoner issue Headphones for use in the cells of the HM Prison GeelongPair of Bakelite headphones supported by metal headpiece with electrical cable.geelong, gaol, museum, headphones, bakelite

Prisoner made smoking pipe confiscated from prisoner "Mr Watto" cell 24, who was the boiler Stocker in the laundry. Circa 1980's. See Senior Prison Office Jack Glenoble (oral history database - Object number (COH-0001) for more details.See Senior Prison Office Jack Glenoble (oral history database - Object number (COH-0001) for more details.Small improvised smoking pipe made from an after shave balm bottle and possibly a pen casing.Old Spicegeelong, gaol, museum, pipe, mr watto, cell 24, paraphernalia

Prisoner made smoking pipe - made and confiscated at Geelong Gaol. Circa 1990's.Improvised smoking pipe made from shampoo and conditioner bottle and plastic tubegeelong, gaol, museum, smoking, contraband, paraphernalia

Prisoner made smoking pipe (broken) - made and confiscated at Geelong Gaol. Circa 1990's.Plastic bottle with hole in the side and breakage on the opposite side.geelong, gaol, museum, smoking, contraband

Part of a Prisoner made Tattoo Gun - made and confiscated at Geelong Gaol. Circa 1990's. (Prisoner issued Tooth Brush)Orange toothbrush moulded to form tattoo gun with sticky tape.geelong, gaol, museum, tattoo, contraband

Rohan Robinson is an artist born in Geelong, and attended “the Mill” part of Deakin University in 1980-82, studying Fine Art. In 2010-11, he was the manager of Kayili Artists Aboriginal Corporation, at Patjarr in the Gibson Desert W.A., where he oversaw the development and marketing of artworks of the corporation’s members. The community is the remotest in Australia and averaged 25 people, mostly consisting of elderly people and part of the Ngaanyatjarra region, with some members not having any consistent contact with white fellas up to the mid 1960’s. During his time it was common for all the community members to go out hunting and having a visit to important areas, where members would get some tucker of rabbits and lizards and honey ants and perhaps some “meow meow” and have a nice sleep in the shade on the warm sand. Robinson would often take his painting gear along and do some work on unstretched linen on the desert ground, he would paint for a while and then perhaps lie around with the elders or follow one of the expert hunters and observe from a distance [several meters] the skills of elderly women casually walking through some recently burned spinifex knocking cowering bunnies on the head with a steel rod. It was on one of these occasions, when this particular painting was being conceived, that after returning from the hunting mission, he was informed by some of the mob, that an elder had been spending time looking at this work in it’s infantile stage...”You know the old fella over there, he been looking at that painting of yours” It was later in the day, when returning to Patjarr, that the elder Arthur Robertson approached Robinson, and demanded/asked that Robinson paint his stories for him. Mr Robertson was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and was having trouble painting, but had been doing some brilliant work with Posca markers. It was with a certain reluctance that Robinson agreed, as he felt this to be a “political hot potato in some quarters” but also respected a relationship between artists beyond the cultural divide. Mr Robertson demanded that they start immediately and armed with pencil and paper they created the notes for several paintings under Mr Robertson’s direction. The painting that you are viewing is signifcant in that it was the catalyst for this relationship between the two artists. Mr Arthur Robertson died later that year 2011.Gold framed blue and earth tone painting. Painting depicting four circles with mountain and sky in the background.