"I like painting. In particular, I like painting colours because they make me feel happy. When I am working it feels like nobody, or no force could interfere. This painting is about dancing and what an important part of our spiritual growth and culture it is." - Uncle Brian Birch Artist Bio Born in Fitzroy, Brian Birch is Wurundjeri and was 'the only boy in [his] family to be reared by all the matriarchs'. His grandmother is Yarra Yarra and lived in a humpee on the Yarra, near Dights Falls. Brian attended the George Street State School from age 5 to 12, after which he went to Victoria Park trade school in Collingwood. He subsequently completed a five-year apprenticeship with Julius Marlow shoes. He married at 17 and has 5 children. Fitzroy b.1936 Yarra Yarra. Brian Birch was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 1936. He completed a Certificate III in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Arts at Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in 2005 and won the National Gallery of Victoria Acquisitive Art Award in the 2006 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards for his painting, Koorie Elders and Family Dancing and Singing, 2006. Uncle Brian Birch passed into the Dreaming in 2024.painting

Drawing of leases with lease numbers, names of owners and names of mines on the New Chum Line of Reef. Lease numbers are: L296, L1505, L5394, L7486, 130, L1286, L3941, L6299, L7427, L323, L3175, L812, L3757, L3888, L6198, L703, L1130, L703, L3321, L3347, L3884, L4167, L4357, L6296, L55, L239, L962, L1494, L1708, L239, L962, L3320, L4779, L6457, L129, L961, L3926, L5566, L19, L959, L4652, L4895, L5371, L7740, L960, L4415, L4793.document, gold, victoria hill, victoria hill, victoria hill new chum line leases, j wybrants, s h mcgowan, north old chum n l, c & t ballerstedt, ballerstedt & son, geo lansell, j holmes, victoria reef company, h hawkins, victoria reef quartz mining co n l, g n craig, j g wheadon, wells & gibbs, midway co, s g cole, gibbs ballerstedt & wells united mining co, w barker, humboldt g m co, great central victoria co n l, howard and neumann, endeavor qtz mining co, woodward & gibbs, endeavor co, smith horner white and tipping, albert co, h birch, victoria consols mining co, victoria reef, sullivan jackson, nicholas ballerstedt & jones, ironbark quartz mining co, j h abbott, ironbark co n l, h y north, new chum consolidated g m co, d macdougall, h von der heyde, hercules & energetic co n l