Imants Tillers has been identified as a quintessential postmodern artist in his use of appropriation and quotation. Since 1981 he has used his signature canvas boards to explore themes relevant to contemporary culture, from the centre/periphery debates of the 1980s to the effects of migration, displacement and diaspora. Most recently, his paintings have been concerned with place, locality and evocations of the landscape. Imants Tillers and Baldessin met on their way to the Bienal de Sao Paulo in 1975 and in the following year worked on two collaborative etching plates in Paris that were printed by Pierre Giarudon. 'Unsaid + Nameless' harks back to his experiences with Baldessin in Paris forty years ago. It is a poignant image of absence that can be read in the tradition of the momento mori. George Baldessin (1939-1978) was born in San Biagio di Callalta, in the Veneto in Northern Italy and arrived in Australia ten years later. A printmaker and sculptor he built his bluestone studio at St Andrews (Nillumbik) in 1971 with his partner Tess and the three Hails brothers, Rob, Doug and Don. Made of recycled materials the studio today contains all of George’s equipment including the large press, which he modelled himself with the help of Neil Jeffrey (Enjay Presses). George won many prizes throughout his career and is represented in many of Australia's public art collections including his famous 'Pears' sculpture in front of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. In 1975 he represented Australia in the Sao Paulo Biennale, before living and working in Paris until his return to St Andrews in 1977. In 1978 George was killed in a car accident aged 39 years. In 2001 Tess returned to St Andrews to reclaim the run-down studio and reconstitute it as The Baldessin Press & Studio - a printmaking retreat. It operates in George’s memory, so that artists may continue to create, perpetuating the generous spirit of George.'Unsaid + Nameless' is one of eight prints in the 'Baldessin & Friends commemorative folio. The folio was conceived by Tess Edwards as a fundraising initiative in celebration of the The Baldessin Press & Studio's fifteen year anniversary, and as a way to honour George Baldessin's memory. The Baldessin Press & Studio is a not-for-profit organisation created in memory of the late George Baldessin (1939-1978), whose original studio is now open to the public for creative use and as a practical legacy to living artists. The Studio is located in St Andrews, Nillumbik. The folio is a unique coming together of seven very different and acclaimed artists who are connected by their friendship to the missing eighth member, George Baldessin. In 1976 Baldessin and Tillers embarked on the collaborative work 'According to des Esseintes'; a post modern Surrealist game of consequences and sequences. In homage to his friendship and work, Tillers completed an unfinished Baldessin plate from 1976 inspired from their 'des Esseintes' collaboration. The addition of Odilon Redon's 'smiling spider' is indicative of Tiller's broader post-modern approach. Solar plate etching of Odilon Redon's 'Laraignee souriante' (The Smiling Spider) on an incomplete plate etched by George Baldessin in 1976 on Somerset paper. Other images include skewed perspectives of a wooden window frame, 'wooden' floor or table(?) folded sheet of paper and unknown apparatus. In pencil (handwritten): low plate: left '14/25' (edition); centre: 'Unsaid + Nameless' (title); right 'Imants Tillers' (signature); low paper: right emboss 'GB' (Baldessin Press & Studio monogram)solar plate etching, george baldessin, somerset paper, spider, line, ekphrasis2018, odilon redon, appropriation, post modern, surrealism, collaboration, paris, folio

Associated documents from Mr R Lloyd provide further informationRobert Lloydsheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated documents from Mr R Lloyd provide further informationsheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides information about cover photograph.sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Decimal currency version, probably not before 1964NO 4 ASSORTMENT 4.3sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, john sands pty ltd, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters, squatter board game

Personal copy of Robert Lloyd. Associated letter provides information about cover photographs. Original version, launched at the Royal Melbourne Show 1962 as part of the Wool Bureau exhibit.NO 4 ASSORTMENT 4.3 Robert C Lloyd/ Personal Copy NWM 99.110sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, john sands pty ltd, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides information about cover photographs. Launched 1981.Stock number 2907 HOLDSON/HOLDSONsheep stations - management wool growing squatters, thos holdsworth & sons ltd, lloyd, mr robert, new zealand, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides information about cover photograph. Murfett Regency editionNWM 99.122sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, murfett, lloyd, mr robert, australia, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides information about cover photograph.sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides information about cover photograph.NWM 99.113sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides informationsheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, australia, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters, squatter board game

Associated letter from Mr R Lloyd provides information about the cover photograph of the owner of San Michele station. This edition was sold until Dec 2002sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, australia, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters, squatter board game

Associated documents from Mr R Lloyd provide further informationNWM 99.107sheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, australia, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

Black and white photograph of a Slovenian picnic ladies sack race at Wandin East in 1962.slovenian picnic, wandin east, competition, 1962

by Union Theatres screened 10 July 1940 at Athenaeum TheatrePhotocopied page of program sourced from SLVathenaeum theatre, union theatre, the skin game, old soldiers never die

Note from collector- "For more than 100 years blankets were made all over Australia in over 100 woollen mills. My aim, is to preserve 100 examples of these wonderful pieces of history. Ten years ago I started collecting the iconic Onkaparinga travel rugs, so that on movie nights at home there would be plenty to go around. Everyone had their favourite; even the cat had his own – a small red tartan one. Keeping an eye out for those travel rugs at op-shops and markets, collectable stores and bazaars, led to noticing vintage blankets. I'd never really thought about them before or paid much attention though of course I had grown up with them at my grandmother's. When I discovered my first Laconia cream blanket with blue stripes, my eyes just went gaga. Well that was it, I was hooked and since then over 500 blankets have passed through my hands. These common, everyday items, found in all households for so many decades, were traditional engagement gifts. Pairs were prized wedding presents turning into family heirlooms. They were fashionable dressers of beds, givers of warmth, bestowers of security and reliability. The comfort found in these objects resonates with almost all of us; we grew up with them ourselves or fondly recall them in a grandparent’s home. There is no modern replacement with the integrity of these old blankets, many of them now older than most of us. They are romantic, sensible, special, familiar, nostalgic and nothing else feels so appropriate in so many situations. No offense to the great Aussie doona, but from hippie to hipster, at a music festival, picnic, campsite or couch, a vintage blanket is something coveted by all. This industry that employed tens of thousands and must have been such a huge contributor to the economy is almost completely lost now. Blanket Fever is an ode to everything that came before: the land, the sheep, the shearers, the hands, the mills, the weavers, the designers, the distributors, the department stores. To the grandparents that gave them, the people that received them, the families that kept them; thank you. I’m passionate about my collection of Australian blankets manufactured in mostly Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania from the 1930s to the end of the 1960s. The collection has blankets from each of these four decades representing the styles and fashions of their time and includes dated advertisements which help determine the eras the blankets are from." Playing card set - double pack of cards in original boxWith Complements "Onkaparinga"/Onkaparinga Blankets/Onkaparinga Robes of Distinctionblanket fever, onkaparinga, marketing

Photocopy of Certificates of Title Vol 2105 Fol 420823 being 480 acres, part Crown Portions 81, 82, 89, 90, and 91 to Freehold Investment and Banking Co of Australia Limited, 9 January 1889. Includes plan of the area bounded by Central Road, Blackburn Road and Stanley Road, (now Wellington Avenue) Blackburn and transfers 1890 - 1926.land subdivision, central road, blackburn, blackburn road, gordon crescent, stanley grove, quarterman, martha, clarke street, grieve, robert, brown, james, game, kate, lincolne, phyllis marian, richardson, william wheeler, wellington avenue, thomas robinson

Letter from A. M. Lonie of Maddock, Jameson & Lonie, solicitors to M.L. Grey Esq , Auctioneer, 800 Whitehorse Rd, Mitcham regarding charging orders for land sales.Letter from A. M. Lonie of Maddock, Jameson & Lonie, solicitors to M.L. Grey Esq , Auctioneer,cock, stuart street, blackburn, whitehorse road, mau, rooks road, mitcham, morgan, laburnum street, lots 25, 26, smith, carween avenue, lot 44, coghill, barkly terrace, lot 3, moody, church street, lot 4, cook, lot 33, james, lot 40, mountford, thomas street, lot 19, lett, game street, lot 15, sullivan builders pty ltd, glen ebor avenue, lot 26, davey, mount pleasant road, forest hill, partridge, dunlavin road, lots 7 & 8, wright, mcdowall street, lots 106 - 7, gibb, lot 9

Extracts from the Sales register of T.R.B. Morton (1897 - !906) including names of people well known in Nunawading.t. r. b. morton & son, wainwright, (mrs), blood, sophia, hodgson, ellen, boyle, joseph, william james, bloom, alfred, cook, edmund a., greig, alfred woolley, crow, robert t., william hill, course, florence rebecca, charles, finger, charles henry, fankhauser, robert c, john, farmilo, hubert henry, fulton, margaret, game, thomas robinson, husband (mrs), henwood, william, dashwood, f.r., samuel j.m., blake, arthur palmer., horkings, hurter, c.e., john henry, janet, hone, robert arthur, henry john, joyner, herbert, jeffery, mary ann, keogh, james, lieber, otto, methodist boys home, purches, frederick walter, rooks, charles francis, abraham, edmund, sarah, scott, eliza emma, sergeant, frederick, henry, pickett, tainton, brock, mary theresa, thiele, ambrose frederick, walker, edgar edwardes, mary jane, zander

Red cardboard cylinder with cardboard lid. Printing in blue and white, 'The Big Joy Toy'. Twenty-one wooden rods and 12 red wooden wheels inside. Cylinder also has wording: 'The Big Joy (coloured) Builder', 'Registered', 'The educational toy for girl or boy', 'Hundreds of different moving figures can be built with this toy', 'Windmill a Joy Toys product'; 'Contents - 53 split rods 20 coloured spools 8 windmill blades and a book of directions'.toys, games

'Multipuzzle' - box containing 48 polystyrene parts and on red tray to make a series of puzzlesMultipuzzle 48 Puzzles rolled into one.toys, games

12 small playing cards depicting 2 chicks with hen.Setting card.toys, general

Envelope type box containing packet of various colours and sizes of circles and squares'The Popular Dutch Craft for Children'toys, general, recreations, games

Digital images of emus on Tower Hill near Koroit, Victoriakoroit, moyne shire, volcano, maar, game reserve, tower hill, tower hill, emu, wildlife, native, bird, flightless

Digital images of emus on Tower Hill near Koroit, Victoriakoroit, moyne shire, volcano, maar, game reserve, tower hill, tower hill, emu, wildlife, native, bird, flightless

Digital images of emus on Tower Hill near Koroit, Victoriakoroit, moyne shire, volcano, maar, game reserve, tower hill, tower hill, emu, wildlife, native, bird, flightless