This work is a plaster maquette of a large bronze statue of politician and land speculator Sir Thomas Bent by Margaret Baskerville that is located on the corner of Bay Street and Nepean Highway, Brighton.Margaret Baskerville, Sir Thomas Bent c.1911, patinated plaster, 55 x 49 x 49 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Donated by Charles Douglas Richardson, 1931.patinated plaster thomas bent, politician, mayor, premier, bust, sculpture, margaret baskerville, land speculator, speaker, local government, councillor, member of lower house, portrait

Edith Cavell was an English nurse based in Belgium who had been killed by German officers for conspiring to help in the escape of allied soldiers. This work is a plaster maquette of a large memorial marble bust by Margaret Baskerville that is located at Kings Domain on Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne. Although commissioned in 1917, the memorial was not completed until 1926 due to both the difficulty of obtaining Carrara marble from Italy after the war and the increasing number of Baskerville’s other commissions.Margaret Baskerville, Edith Cavell c. 1926, plaster, 82 x 49 x 28 cm. Bayside Art and Heritage Collection. Donated by Charles Douglas Richardson, 1931.plasteredith cavell, bust, sculpture, nurse, world war i, margaret baskerville, melbourne, berkendael medical institute, red cross, brussels, plaster

Baskerville’s Echo references the Ancient Greek myth of the nymph Echo. The goddess Hear punished Echo for misusing her gift of voice by ensuring that she could only echo the voice of others. Echo falls in love with Narcissus, who spurns her and instead falls in love with his own reflection in a pool and drowns trying to reach it. Grieving, Echo fades away until only her voice remains.patinated plasterecho, female, figure, margaret baskerville, ancient greek myth, nymph, sculpture, relief, plaster

marblewild fruit, female, figure, fruit, charles douglas richardson, sculpture, marble, c douglas richardson, cd richardson

patinated plastertempus fugit, time flies, sundial, figure, female, charles douglas richardson, c douglas richardson, cd richardson, relief, sculpture

patinated plasterfaces, relief, charles douglas richardson, memories, genius, scupture, cd richardson, c douglas richardson

This work was painted following Rob McHaffie’s Australia Council Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2007. Despite Paris being a beautiful city, McHaffie also found the experience challenging and felt that on a bad day, the city was no more than an ornately decorated concrete jungle. In this painting a monkey looks out from a green building onto an imagined scene abound with art historical references. A classical European figurative sculpture is surrounded by flowers from Monet’s gardens, while a contemporary sculpture by Franz West dominates the foreground of the work. McHaffie questions the so-called evolution of cultured humanity in comparison to the imagined contentedness of our pre-evolved species.oil on linenmonkey, sculpture, painting, rob mchaffie, paris, flowers, franz west

oil on linencardboard box, paper, water, documents, painting, victoria reichelt, fragile, photorealist, archive

watercolourfence, farm, landscape, watercolour, margaret baskerville, rural, tree

watercolourlandscape, trees, watercolour, margaret baskerville, bush, farm

watercolourlandscape, river, king river, wangaratta, trees, watercolour, margaret baskerville, reflection, bush

watercolourfarm, building, farm house, landscape, watercolour, margaret baskerville, a-frame, mountain

wheel thrown and hand built stoneware, wax resist, stencil and airbrushed glaze and stainsceramic, stairs, sky, stencil, stoneware, garry bish, cauldron

slipcast white stoneware, airbrushed glazes and oxide, multi-fired decals, wax resist, enamelstoneware, ceramic, decals, stairs, sky, garry bish, bottle, sphere, geometric

emu feathers, white sulphur crested cockatoo feathers, cotton, possum jaw.basket, feathers, indigenous, lisa waup, cockatoo, emu, possom, woven

emu feathers, pine needles, job seeds, cotton.basket, woven, feathers, pine needles, indigenous, lisa waup, job seeds, handcraft

emu feathers, parrot feathers and peacock feathers, seed, cottonbasket, feathers, seeds, indigenous, lisa waup, woven, emu, peacock, parrot, handcraft

emu, parrot and peacock feathers, silk thread, cottonbasket, woven, indigenous, lisa waup, peacock, emu, feather, handcraft

It is known that we choose our family before we are born, for me I get a great deal of comfort knowing this, for me it is very true. I was adopted at birth, I have always known this. My mum is my best friend, she is my confidant in times of sadness and pain. She is my guiding light in times when I have lost my way. I share everything with her as she does me. She is my hero, especially now that I have my own children, seeing the sacrifices she has made along the way and is still sacrificing so much for our wellbeing. I celebrate her daily for all she does, we celebrate together the wonderful things that we achieve on a daily basis no matter how small they appear to be. She is always there for me – how privileged I am to have her in my life. I met my birth mother once I had children of my own, I understood what a sacrifice it must have been to give me up. The first words that I muttered out of my mouth when I met her was, “I am so proud of you, and thank you”. She was quite baffled by this and then I explained. Through your unconditional sacrifice I have been given a wonderful life, the doors have been opened to me in so many ways. I have been loved unconditionally and have had the devotion of my mum and dad behind me all the way – how blessed I have been. The dual figures that I have weaved signify my mothers, my mum is holding a babe in arms a gift from the universe. My birthmother is present within this figure, her face is at the back of my mums head. She wasn’t physically there during my many years without her, yet spiritually she never left. This figure is a homage to my mothers, a recognition of respect and admiration, to hold them in great esteem, adulation and worship. Lisa Waup, 2016emu feathers, parrot feathers, ostrich feathers, tapa cloth, fibre, crow’s feet, parrot feet, parrot wings, possum fur, seeds, raffia, woodmother and child, sculpure, weaving, lisa waup, torres strait islander, gunditjmara, indigenous, handcraft, chosen before birth, adoption, emu, feather, possum, mother, child

oil on canvassunset, river, tree, landscape, konrad a. müller-kurzwelly, european, autumn, leaves, rocks, painting, billilla, weatherly, violet weatherly

oil on canvas laid on boardking arthur, lord tennyson, poetry, idylls of the king, boat, water, death, c.d. richardson, c. douglas richardson, charles douglas richardson, painting

oil on boardrehearsal, singing, margaret baskerville, portrait, figure, music, piano

oil on canvaslady of the lilies, portrait, flowers, margaret baskerville, paintng, lilies, figure

oil on canvasend of summer, landscape, trees, horses, charles douglas richardson, painting, cloud, farm, summer, grass

marblesculpture, figure, cross, charles douglas richardson, cd richardson, c douglas richardson, marble, penitent, sorrow

Inspired by the opening lines of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s 1820 poem of the same title, The Cloud has grace of line that epitomises the model of classically informed beauty. Richardson’s figure successfully follows the serpentine line of Art Nouveau sculpture while also echoing the influence of British New Sculpture with its focused attention to bodily detail and surface articulation. A bronze version of The Cloud was cast in 1987 and can be seen in the formal garden between the Brighton Town Hall and the Brighton Library.Art Nouveauplaster patinated with paint and ground coppersculpture, female figure, charles douglas richardson, the cloud, cd richardson, c douglas richardson, percy bysshe shelley, poem, art nouveau, new sculpture, flowers

oil on canvascharles douglas richardson, figure, female, pathway of ignorance, path, veil, australian sybmbolism

watercolourfarm, horses, landscape, rainbow, cheltenham, charles douglas richardson, cd richardson, cloud, rural

watercolourlandscape, diamond creek, stringybark, trees, charles douglas richardson, bush, victoria, cd richardson, c. douglas richadrson, watercolour

watercolourlandscape, werribee, gorge, trees, charles douglas richardson, watercolour, cd richardson, c douglas richardson, rocks, mountains