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Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping - Digital Image, Barak Bushland Reserve - Floods mean a lot to clean, 02/03/2005
Receding flood water levels have revealed much rubbish. Clean Up Australia day volunteers work throughout Banyule and Nillumbik to collect the rubbish.Newspaper clipping, black and white text and colour image.clean up australia day, plenty river -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Photograph, Siri Hayes, Under the Doona - Luella and Crower 2020: SIRI HAYES
Under the doona investigates the creative potential of observing the domestic environment and connecting with the local landscape within the restrictions of COVID-19 in 2020. The global pandemic is explored from a personal domestic and local position on Wurundjeri Country in Nillumbik in my 5km radius.Universally recognisable as a symbol of hygiene, the Chux cloth was discovered discarded and coated in Nillumbik’s infamous clay on my daily walk. Local Indigofera Australis was used to extract ‘Chux blue’ to botanically dye hand spun silk and Polwarth yarn. Not a scratchy synthetic Chux, my handwoven natural fibre soft cloth positions soothing touch as an all-important sense within the physical constraints of social distancing. My masked daughter holds her pet rooster. My son learns new card tricks using crackers. Family and local surrounds provide close and reassuring comfort. The project values intimacy, touch and local connectedness. On a global scale.Commissioned by Nillumbik Shire Council as part of the Art in the Time of Covid project which invited artists to create artworks that reflect the pandemic and the artists' personal experiences of it -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Painting, Fan Dongwang, Pandemic Bodies #1 (Inverted), 2020
My paintings reflect upon the peculiar state of our existence in the pandemic ravaged world: a microscopic and invisible virus has wreaked havoc and revealed the fragility of the human race regardless of our technological and economic advancements. Overwhelmed by the hostile environment, our once arrogant bodies are depersonalized, suspended, fragmented, perplexed and isolated. Mixed with different races, colours and genders, the new bodily world is an imaginative vision of the post pandemic psyche. The lines and shapes delineate an space with new boundaries and depth, full of aching, longing, order less and distorted bodies forming an assemblage endlessly floating on the blue surface, gasping for air, emerging and submerging, shrinking and extending. COVID-19 is a wakeup call for us to rethink our relationship with technology and environment in order to create new control, purpose and identities, which we need to help future generations to survive. Commissioned by Nillumbik Shire Council as part of the Art in the Time of Covid project which invited artists to create artworks that reflect the pandemic and the artists' personal experiences of it -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Photograph, Tyler GRACE, Homebound
Isolation is something I am all too familiar with.In the middle of the last decade, for a period of three years, isolation became my way of living, as due to my health, I physically couldn’t leave the house, or even my bed very often. I would be so desperate to get out of the house at times that it was if I was a prisoner trying to escape the confines of Alcatraz. The isolation experience during the COVID-19 pandemic has brought back many emotions and memories of that time, some of which I would rather not remember.Commissioned by Nillumbik Shire Council as part of the Art in the Time of Covid project which invited artists to create artworks that reflect the pandemic and the artists' personal experiences of it. -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Textile, Michelle HAMER, Relax We're Doing Great (This is Not Over), 2020
‘Relax, We’re Doing Great’ explores the mixed messages and lottery of language we have been exposed to during COVID19. Sourced from local and global leaders, warning signs and public messages, the text ranges from instructional to in-denial; to even epidemiologically dangerous rhetoric.These works connect into the hand-made, digital and 24/7 news cycles - key coping mechanisms for fears and uncertainty - of this pandemic period. The power and importance of language is highlighted when experienced en masse. The repetition of the layout of these works also allows for the creation of GIFs – mimicking the flickering of LED signage.Commissioned by Nillumbik Shire Council as part of the Art in the Time of Covid project which invited artists to create artworks that reflect the pandemic and the artists' personal experiences of it. -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Painting, Paul KALEMBA, Leaving Isolation, 2020
Leaving Isolation is play on words; a pun. It is a joke shared with new imaginary friends found while living alone, in isolation. Processing emotions, sanitising theories, engaging in shadow play; these works show individual native leaves that resemble expressive faces collected on permitted daily walks. 30 small, 15 x 21 cm still life studies in ink and watercolour are hung to reference a calendar month during COVID-19. The work considers the nature of ecology in the anthropocene while confronting emergent psychological myth-scapes during Lockdown.Commissioned by Nillumbik Shire Council as part of the Art in the Time of Covid project which invited artists to create artworks that reflect the pandemic and the artists' personal experiences of it. -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Luigi VESCIO, Score for Multi-Species Partnerships, 2020
Score for Multi-Species Partnerships is a participatory performance and moving image assemblage. The score offers a guided framework to become reacquainted with the everyday, queering notions of community and care through meditative movement practice. Inter-species collaborators partake in a series of propositions which facilitate a ‘becoming-with’, deepening their sense of place and comfort with one another and their environment.Seeking alternative forms of connection during isolation, this global project uses embodied praxis and visualisation to bring together artists and non-artists, humans and non-humans, to consider how we co-exist and affect one another through material and energetic transference. Initiated in April 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak, participants chose whether to practise anonymously or document their experience and contribute to the visual archive. The private becomes public as intimate encounters in domestic settings are shared, speaking to cultures of performativity and voyeurism in the digital age. Artist/Director: Luigi Vescio. Performers: Adina Kraus, Anna McDermott, Claudia Lomoschitz, Josh Freedman, Luigi Vescio, Martin Lee, Maximilian Bishop, Melanie Cobham, Nathan Dubber, Niharika Senapati, Omar Felix Faber, Pia Lauritz, Rachel Jessie-Rae O’Connor, Shamira Stone, Will Hall, Yuiko Masukawa.Many thanks also to those who chose to participate in private.This project was also supported by Creative Victoria through the Sustaining Creative Workers initiative.Commissioned by Nillumbik Shire Council as part of the Art in the Time of Covid project which invited artists to create artworks that reflect the pandemic and the artists' personal experiences of it. Video -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Not Just a Pretty Place, Aleks Danko (2000), Lennister Farm, Eltham South, 2000c
Not Just a Pretty Place acknowledges the cultural significance of this site for the residents of Nillumbik Shire and for the Wurrundjeri community. Historically the confluence of rivers have particular importance as these were sites where rituals and ceremonies took place. The carved bluestone form presents an oversize river pebble that echoes the spirit of the water and draws attention to this location as a meeting place an landmark. Awarded the 2000 Nillumbik Art in Public Places Award and situated behind Lennister Farm near Yarra ParkColour photograph printaleks danko, eltham, lennister farm, yarra park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Document - Property Binder, 1151 Main Road, Eltham
Newspaper article: Units vote sparks row, Diamond Valley News, 8 April 1998, Nillumbik Council meeting discussed application for 7 double-storey attached units development at block from 1151 Main Road to Railway Road. Newspaper article: Units go-ahead as decision reversed, Diamond Valley News, 29 April 1998, Nillumbik Council discussed proposed developments at 1151 Main Road and 30 Swan Street. main road, eltham, property, houses, natalie woodley, robert marshall, marg jennings, john graves, lex de man, 30 swan street eltham, railway road eltham -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Not Just a Pretty Place, Aleks Danko (2000), Lennister Farm, Eltham South, 2000c
Not Just a Pretty Place acknowledges the cultural significance of this site for the residents of Nillumbik Shire and for the Wurrundjeri community. Historically the confluence of rivers have particular importance as these were sites where rituals and ceremonies took place. The carved bluestone form presents an oversize river pebble that echoes the spirit of the water and draws attention to this location as a meeting place an landmark. Awarded the 2000 Nillumbik Art in Public Places Award and situated behind Lennister Farm near Yarra ParkColour photograph printaleks danko, eltham, lennister farm, yarra park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Not Just a Pretty Place, Aleks Danko (2000), Lennister Farm, Eltham South, 2000c
Not Just a Pretty Place acknowledges the cultural significance of this site for the residents of Nillumbik Shire and for the Wurrundjeri community. Historically the confluence of rivers have particular importance as these were sites where rituals and ceremonies took place. The carved bluestone form presents an oversize river pebble that echoes the spirit of the water and draws attention to this location as a meeting place an landmark. Awarded the 2000 Nillumbik Art in Public Places Award and situated behind Lennister Farm near Yarra ParkColour photograph printaleks danko, eltham, lennister farm, yarra park -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Barak Bushlands Reserve, Eltham, March 2003, 2003
This area is urban and wetlands west of the Eltham gateway approach near the bridge over Diamond Creek and forms part of a walking trail. On 15 August 2004, the Shire of Nillumbik officially named the area "Barak Bushlands" as part of its commitment to Aboriginal reconciliation. The naming day memorialised the one hundred and first anniversary of the death of the last full-blood Yarra Aboriginal leader, William Barak. Source: Aboriginal reconcilation events in Nillumbik, Ken Eckersall, 2006.Digital scan from borrowed photobarak bushlands reserve, eltham, walking trail -
Greensborough Historical Society
Plaque, Rotary Club of Greensborough, Rotary Club of Greensborough Memorial Plaque: Pioneer Children's Cemetery, 1848-1860
Memorial plaque erected by Rotary Club of Greensborough at the request of the Diamond Valley Shire Council and the Nillumbik Historical Society. A new plaque, with updated details, replaced it in 2015.Commemorates the deceased children of some early pioneering families (Whatmough and Partington) in the Greensborough district.Bronze plaque with Rotary logo, inscription and names of children buried engraved in blackpioneer childrens cemetery, rotary club of greensborough, nillumbik historical society inc., whatmough family, robert partington -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Newspaper - Newspaper Clipping, Diamond Valley Leader, Back to public, Diamond Valley Leader, 22 November, 2006
Nillumbik Shire Council plans to re-zone the former Eltham Shire Office site and Eltham War Memorial from Buisness 2 to Public Use 6895 main road, eltham, eltham shire office, eltham war memorial, nillumbik shire council, re-zoning -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Book, The Centenary of Plenty 1913-2013, 2014
Published to commemorate the centenary of the township of Plenty in the Shire of Nillumbik in 2013. It includes photos and information about the centenary celebrations and brief histories of various community groups in Plenty.plenty (vic.), centenary -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newsletter, Greenhills and North Greensborough Progress Association, Community News: official journal of the Greenhills and Nth. Greensborough Progress Association and the Apollo Parkways Progress Association.. May 1978. Edition No. 4/78, 05/1978
Cameo of Mick Chick, This and that, Farwell Alicia [Ansell], We want supermarkets!!!, Nillumbik Historical Society, School news, Montmorency & District Horticultural Society, Letter to the Editor.Newsletter, 19 p., illus.greenhills and north greensborough progress association, greenhills, apollo parkways progress association, apollo parkways -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Marguerite Marshall, Former Head Teacher's residence, Eltham Primary School, Dalton Street, Eltham, 7 September 2008
Built in 1891 for Head Teacher John Brown. His predecessor and the school's first Head Teacher, John Clark, lived in his own house 'Shoestring' in Metery Road, adjacent to the school. At the time of this photograph, the building was being used for before and after school care. Its present-day (2023) use is for school administration offices. Covered under Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p49This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, dalton street, eltham, eltham primary school, headmaster's residence, main road, state school no. 209 -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Folder, Cultural Heritage Trail Project, 1996
Correspondence, brochures, flyers, meeting agendas and minutes, evaluation sheet, list of sites and associated historical information and a Eltham Discovery talk produced by EDHS in 1992. on a project to develop a cultural heritage trail for the Shire of Nillumbik as part of a training program for future employmentvia LEAP a federally funded program through the Department of Employment Education, training and Youth Affairs. It was jointly sponsored by Montsalvat Trust and Nillumbik Shire Council. The project consisted of two parts: gathering the information and publishing it.37 pagesHG Booklet 51harry gilham collection, leap, trailblazers, heritage trail -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Former Shire of Eltham President, Cr. Mary Grant with the Presidential Chain of Office
Cr. Mary Grant of Hurstbridge served as the North Riding Councillor for the Shire of Eltham. First elected in 1990 and required to retire by 1995. She was the Shire President at least 1992-1993. Source: Shire of Eltham 1993 Handbook. It is believed that this photograph was taken after Cr. Grant's term as President. EDHS Newsletter No. 216, May 2014, p4 Mayoral Chain of Office R.C. McLellan and family donated a Chain of Office to the Shire of Eltham to be worn by the Shire President on formal occasions. With the amalgamation of councils in 1994 this was transferred to the Shire of Nillumbik to be used during the mayoral year. Eltham had a Shire President whereas Nillumbik has a Mayor. Many municipalities have a collar or chain of office for ceremonial purposes. Traditionally these symbolise or denote the formal leadership role of office. This chain is part of the Visual Art Collection held by Nillumbik Shire Council and is now on display in the Council Chamber area in the Civic Centre at Greensborough. Matcham Skipper and Myra Skipper were commissioned by the McClellan family to create the gold-plated silver chain shown being worn by Eltham Shire President Peter Graham in 1990, with Bob McLellan and Matcham Skipper (centre). Nillumbik Shire Council has asked that the following credit information is used when the chain is displayed, or images reproduced. Matcham SKIPPER (1921-2011) and Myra SKIPPER (1920-1996) Mayoral (Presidential) Chains of Office 1976 Gold plated silver 60cm x 32cm x 1cm (variable) © The Estate of Matcham and Myra Skipper Donated by RC McLellan and Family Visual Art Collection: Nillumbik Shire Council [Picture: Nillumbik Mayoral Chain of Office] [Picture: Bob McLellan, Matcham Skipper and Eltham Shire President Peter Graham -1990]The Presidential Chain of Office is now a significant part of the Nillumbik Shire Council's art collection.Colour photograph Councillor Mary Grant in Shire President Regaliacouncillors, eltham shire council, shire presidents, mary grant, nillumbik shire art collection, presidential chain of office -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping, Diamond valley Leader, Calls for council merger, 31/07/2019
Urban sprawl and the cost of rates are some of the key concerns raised by 'stunned' ratepayers after a councillor revealed shocking plans to merge Banyule and Nillumbik councils last week.News article 1 page, black text.nillumbik council, council merger, peter clarke, banyule city council -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph, Eltham Community Centre April 1979, 17/04/1979
A photograph of the Eltham Community Centre. The Eltham Community Reception Centre is owned and operated by Nillumbik Shire. It retains the unique character of the original iconic mudbrick building, it was refurbished in 2017.1 colour photograph.peter graham, eltham, eltham community reception centre -
Greensborough Historical Society
Newspaper Clipping, Students get tech, 23/08/2017
Thousands of students are a step closer to accessing hi-tech equipment with the construction of the new Banyule-Nillumbik Tech School underway. The school will be based at Melbourne Polytechnic's Greensborough Campus.News article 1 page, black text.banyule city council, nillumbik council, banyule-nillumbik tech school, melbourne polytechnic -
Greensborough Historical Society
Planning Document, Shire of Diamond Valley, Civic Centre Redevelopment 1992, 1992_08
6 plans for the proposed redevelopment of the Shire of Diamond Valley offices in Civic Drive, now the offices of Nillumbik Council. Shire of Diamond Valley existed from 1964 to 1994.6 planning drawings, black ink on white paper.shire of diamond valley, nillumbik council -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph, Hand made bricks at Hurstbridge
The exceptional building clay of Hurstbridge and throughout the Shire of Eltham and present day Shire of Nillumbik has been a factor in the popularity of manufacture of and use of mud bricks in local architecture. This photo forms part of a collection of photographs gathered by the Shire of Eltham for their centenary project book, "Pioneers and Painters: 100 years of the Shire of Eltham" by Alan Marshall (1971). The collection of over 500 images is held in partnership between Eltham District Historical Society and Yarra Plenty Regional Library (Eltham Library) and is now formally known as 'The Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph Collection.' It is significant in being the first community sourced collection representing the places and people of the Shire's first one hundred years.Digital imagesepp, shire of eltham pioneers photograph collection, hurstbridge, brick making, adobe brick, bricks -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Document - Property Binder, 1220 Main Road, Eltham
Newspaper article: Houses split council, Diamond Valley Leader, 1 March 2006, Nillumbik Council meeting re application for 5 houses at 1220 Main Road.main road, eltham, property, houses, greg johnson, heather needham, andrew broadbent, bo bendtsen -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Work on paper (Sub-Item) - Photograph, The Sports Oval, Diamond Creek Reserve, Diamond Creek Township, 8 April 1977
Colour photograph. Note debris on the rail fencing around the oval. The Diamond Creek in flood at Diamond Creek township, 8 April 1977 Nillumbik Historical Society collectionflood, diamond creek, flooding, oval, nillumbik historical society, rail -
Greensborough Historical Society
Photograph - Photograph - Digital Image, Sue Ballantyne, GHS at Ellis Cottage, December 2021, 27/11/2021
On 27/11/2021, Greensborough Historical Society members visited Nillumbik Historical Society at Ellis Cottage Diamond Creek. A delicious Devonshire tea was enjoyed by those present.Colour digital photographgreensborough historical society, nillumbik historical society -
Nillumbik Shire Council
Sculpture: Angela NAGEL, Angela Nagel, How to Explain Genetics to a Thylacine, 2009
Entry into the 2009 Nillumbik Prize. Angela holds a Masters of Fine Art and has worked with clay for over 20 years. Her work is held in collections around Australia.Angela Nagel's creative practice is informed by an interest in the human condition, universal symbols, mythology and Jung's theory on the 'collective unconscious'. Her hybrid part human/animal creatures reference introduced species and indigenous Australian animals as a way for her to explore a personal mythology, and narrative, of home and environment. Recent work is developing around the relationship of ceramics to other materials such as glass, printmaking and found objects. Angela holds a Masters of Fine Art and has worked with clay for over 20 years. Her work is held in collections around Australia.Human and animal like figure in the stance reminiscent of classical sculpture. Hand built ceramics with engobes, oxides, glaze and gold leaf Medium: Porcelain, oxide, underglazeangela nagel, nillumbik shire council collection, victoria, nillumbik prize, ceramic -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Photograph - Digital Photograph, Alan King, Kinglake National Park, 27 March 2008
Fern gullies around Jehosaphat Gully Covered under National Estate. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then / Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p125This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, kinglake national park, jehosaphat gully -
Eltham District Historical Society Inc
Slide - Photograph, Shillinglaw Cottage, Eltham Common, Panther Place, Eltham, 27 May 1990
Local Cemetery Excursion Sunday 27 May 1990 departed Eltham Shire Office at 9.30am and finish mid afternoon. Visits to Eltham , Kangaroo Ground, Queenstown (Smiths Gully), Nillumbik (Diamond Creek), St Katherines (St Helena) Hurst family graves at Hurstbridge and a little known early cemetery at Grteensborough. Attended by 20 members. In each case we were introduced to the cemetery with a brief talk. At Eltham, Frank Burgoyne gave us the benefit of his knowledge as a member of the cemetery trust and at Kangaroo Ground, Bruce Ness spoke in a similar capacity. The lunch stop was at Hurstbridge where we visited the Hurst family graves. The President of Nillumbik Historical Society, Jock Ryan, joined us at the Nillumbik (Diamond Creek) cemetery. He travelled on to St Katherines, St Helena, where he talked on the history of the church and cemetery.35mm colour positive transparency (1 of 25) Mount - Kodak EktachromeProcessing Date Code Jun 90Mshillinglaw cottage, eltham common, panther place, eltham, activities, shire of eltham historical society, cemetery excursion