Word of mouth (Half Moon Bay) 2018 is a two-panel work which is the largest painting the artist has made to date. It is a colourful and fun, light-hearted scene of an imaginative party that the artist would love to attend at Half Moon Bay in Black Rock. Depicted in the work are over 30 figures, including international tourists, family and friends of McHaffie as well as famous identities such as musicians David Bowie and Solange Knowles, and fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. McHaffie’s DJ friend Lucreccia Quintanilla has set up a DJ deck and speakers on the beach while the party goers are wading in the shallow waters, dancing on the cliff and mingling on the beach in what appears to be an idyllic summer’s day in Bayside.oil on linen (diptych)painting, beach, half moon bay, black rock, bayside, coast, party, rob mchaffie, dj, dance, musician, karl lagerfeld, david bowie, solange knowles, lucreccia quintanilla, port phillip bay, word of mouth, mooji, jon campbell, tourists, family, friends, cliff, rocks, water

type C photographiceland, snow, power plant, car, georgina campbell, landscape, type c photograph

type C photographiceland, snow, landscape, mountain, cloud, georgina campbell, photograph, type c photograph

type C photographiceland, snow, mountains, cloud, photograph, georgina campbell, type c photograph

type C photographsnow, iceland, mountains, photograph, georgina campbell, type c photograph, clouds

type C photographsnow, iceland, landscape, mountains, photograph, georgina campbell, type c photograph

type C photographsnow, iceland, street scene, photograph, georgina campbell, type c photograph, night, street lamp

type C photographsnow, iceland, street scene, playground, photograph, georgina campbell, night, type c photograph

type C photographsnow, iceland, mountains, landscape, path, photograph, georgina campbell, type c photograph

type C photographsnow, iceland, mountains, landscape, photograph, georgina campbell, type c photograph

oil on boardabstract, painting, robert jacks, garden, geometric

oil on boardabstract, painting, robert jacks, garden, geometric

oil on boardabstract, painting, robert jacks, geometric

Jeremy Kibel, Point 2000, oil on board, 40 x 50 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Lion Capital Pty Ltd, 2013oil on boardpainting, abstract, point, jeremy kibel

powder coated steelsculpture, lenton parr, darien

powder coated steelsculpture, lenton parr, lesath

As part of the redevelopment of the Indigenous Coastal Trails, this work was commissioned by Bayside City Council as one of four prints produced in a limited edition of ten. This etching was produced in response to stories of the Boon wurrung people as written by Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung elder.Vicki Couzens, Arweet sit down 2010, etching, 28 x 19.5 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Commissioned 2010. etchingetching, arweet, vicki couzens, carolyn briggs, bayside indigenous coastal trail

As part of the redevelopment of the Indigenous Coastal Trails, this work was commissioned by Bayside City Council as one of four prints produced in a limited edition of ten. This etching was produced in response to stories of the Boon wurrung people as written by Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung elder.Vicki Couzens, Paint the Country 2010, etching, 19.5 x 28 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Commissioned 2010.etchingetching, vicki couzens, country, indigenous coastal trail, bayside, carolyn briggs

As part of the redevelopment of the Indigenous Coastal Trails, this work was commissioned by Bayside City Council as one of four prints produced in a limited edition of ten. This etching was produced in response to stories of the Boon wurrung people as written by Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung elder.Vicki Couzens, Yams and eels 2010, etching, 28 x 19.5 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Commissioned 2010. etchingetching, yams, eels, vicki couzens, bayside indigenous coastal trail, carolyn briggs, bayside

As part of the redevelopment of the Indigenous Coastal Trails, this work was commissioned by Bayside City Council as one of four prints produced in a limited edition of ten. This etching was produced in response to stories of the Boon wurrung people as written by Carolyn Briggs, Boon wurrung elder.Vicki Couzens, Women's journey 2010, etching, 28 x 19.5 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Commissioned 2010.etchingetching, journey, vicki couzens, yam, eel, bayside indigenous coastal trail, carolyn briggs

bronzesculpture, swimmer, female, figure, guy boyd, public art, bayside, bayside city council, australian bicentennial project, guy martin à beckett boyd, bronze, city of sandringham, indigenous resource garden, bluff road, sandringham

The bluestone is laid on crushed yellow ochre sandstone, with the base encircled by indigenous flowering plants. Each rock represents one of the six clans that made up the Boon wurrung. For thousands of years, Boon wurrung women and children congregated in this area during special periods in spring and summer. The area was rich in seafood and had fresh water wells dotted around it. Among the Banksia trees that provided shelter, grew indigenous plants and flowers through which the women made garlands to wear in their hair.boon wurrung, blossom, sculpture, public art, indigenous, bayside indigenous coastal trail, ellen josé, ellen jose, bluestone, sandstone

etchingbridge, boats, reflection, water, etching, print, jessie traill, melbourne, yarra, river

When Thomas Bent, politician and land speculator, was appointed Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1892, a number of local Brighton constituents and supporters raised money to present him with an oil portrait. Bent had been a member for Brighton for 21 years, and the painting was seen as a way of showing their appreciation of his services to the Brighton constituency, as well as congratulating him to his new position as Speaker. In June 1892, British/Australian landscape and portrait artist Charles E. Gordon-Frazer was given the commission to paint the portrait. Thomas Bent is depicted as standing in his Speaker's robe on the dais beneath the canopy in the Legislative Assembly Chamber in the act of addressing the House. He wears the traditional Speaker’s dress of a black silk and gold laced robe over a three-piece black suit, lace jabot and cuffs, buckled shoes and a ceremonial long wig. The top of the gold parliamentary mace sits on the right of the work near the frame's edge.sir thomas bent, thomas bent, speaker, mayor, premier, brighton, moorabbin, land speculator, local government, councillor, official, member of lower house, portrait, parliament, ceremonial robes, legislative assembly, jabot, wig, mace

bayside city council, borough of brighton, illuminated, certificate, population, rates, public buildings, wp allen, mayor, town clerk, surveyor, councillors, council, borough, county of bourke

gardenvale, station, train, platform, public transport, opening, crowd, mayor, sears studios, railway, gardenvale station

Stewart Handasyde, Hampton beach c. 1914, oil on canvas, 65 x 131 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Donated by the Handasyde family, 2018.hampton, beach, bayside, water, figures, sand, bathers, coast, handasyde, stewart handasyde

oil on canvasboardrickett's point, landscape, tree, vegetation, port phillip bay, bay, banksia, fence, beaumaris, bayside, gregory alexander, painting

hand-built, slip decorated and glazed, mid-fired stonewarestoneware, ceramic, surf, wayne lynch, gerry wedd, flowers, waves, beach, urn, vase

oil on boardbeaumaris, bayside, coast, landscape, miles evergood, painting, rickett's point, bay, water, shrub, trees