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Melbourne Tram Museum
Album - Compiled by David Frost - VR trams etc, 2005
Page 1 - postcards and notes on the Alf Twentyman's preserved cars. 2 - VR tram 41 at Bendigo 2001 and two VR tram tickets 3 - VR 41 at Sandringham station - night photo 4 & 5 - VR 41 at Bendigo 6 & 7 - VR 41 at Bendigo 8 & 9 - photo copies of VR railway - tram tickets 10 - 11 - photo copies of VR railway - tram tickets and photo of VR 41 at North Bendigo. 12 - Photo of David Frost selling a ticket to David Vendy, Mayor of Ballarat at the time - July 2002 13 & 14 Two Melbourne tram postcards and tram tickets 15 - 18 - Four Peter Gerasimon greeting cards featuring Melbourne trams, 19 - Ballarat tramway postcard and cable saloon trailer 171 being loaded for Portland - July 2002. 20 - three photos of David Frost at Bylands rear cover - photos of VR 41 and VR 53 at Bendigo.Illustrates the work of David Frost and his interest in VR trams.Photo Album - 10 heavy card sheets with plastic sheets over each, white plastic ring bound, covered with a large photograph of Alf Twentyman's cable cars at Northcote. See 3086 for an unused version.cable cars, vr trams, alf twentyman, david frost, vr 41, bendigo, tickets, postcards, peter gerasimon, trams, tramways -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Badge - Gripman - 13 - Clifton Hill, c1916
Use to identify a tramway employee - Clifton Hill car house or depot. Would have allowed free travel when in uniform to and from work. Used possibly from mid 1910's when the Tramway Board was formed until it was replaced by the MMTB in 1921 or when a different identification system was implemented. Most likely made by Stokes and Sons - possible imprint covered by the leather part.Demonstrates the method of identifying cable tram employees. Round pressed brass badge with the words "Gripman" pressed into the centre of the badge around the top portion of the badge, the letters "C13H. Has a nickel-plated finish with the Tramways Board logo on the lower part of the badge. On the rear of the badge, two metal lugs have been soldered onto the badge and a two-piece leather strap with a buttonhole cut into it to enable it to be worn on a uniform. See item 7339 for a Conductor badge. badges, tramways, trams, employee pass, tramway board, clifton hill depot, gripmen -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Book, "Melbourne's Cable Trams - A brief history", 1975
Book produced by the Science Museum provides a brief history of the cable tram system, with photos. Includes details of the engine houses, the cable, the grip mechanism, the ticket bell punch, and why "Mind the Curve". Has a list of acknowledgments. Published shortly after or at the time of the launch of the tram in the enclosure in Russell St. The additional sheet with the book provides details for each route of route, the location of the city terminus, suburban terminus, running time, night light, route length, first and last car for each day of the week. Not known who compiled the sheet.Demonstrates the work of the Science Museum - now Scienceworks.Book - 16 pages + card cover +postcard of cable tram set No. 1 at the Science Museum 1975. Inside the book is a ruled sheet of paper with details of the cable tram routes, handmade with ink.tramways, cable trams, science museum, melbourne -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document, "Melbourne Tramway Memories", c2000?
Ray Roberts commenced with the MMTB in 1961 at South Melbourne depot. Born at Reefton NZ. Worked as a connie for 33 years. This volume has many personal notes on his work, his colleagues and events that affected the tramways. Includes many photocopies of newspaper articles. At the rear has a item about the history of the South Melbourne tram depot. See also items 639 and 7272 for other versions and documents.Demonstrates a set of memories or memoirs of a Melbourne tram conductor and his 33 years of service.Black Comb bound volume, approx 140 pages, green covers, clear plastic sheets with many loose photocopied sheets.ray roberts, mmtb, south melbourne depot, memories, memoirs, trams, tramways, conductors -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Personal Papers, "Melbourne Tram Memories - Book II", c2010
Ray Roberts commenced with the MMTB in 1961 at South Melbourne depot. Born at Reefton NZ. Worked as a connie for 33 years. This volume has many personal notes on his work, his colleagues and events that affected the tramways. Includes many photocopies of newspaper articles. See also items 639 and 6719 for other volumes.Yields information about Ray Roberts and his tramway memories. Black comb bound volume, approx 70 pages, clear plastic cover, black rear cover.tramcars, tramways, melbourne, ray roberts, unions, ptc, mmtb, memoirs, conductors -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Functional object - Rolleicord Camera, late 1930s
Used by the MMTB Supply Department for photograpy. Based on the wikipedia reference and the markings on top of the front face of the camera, made prior to the Second World War. Camera takes 120 film.Demonstrates the type of equipment the MMTB used to record their work, problems and to illustrate reports etc.Camera - metal frame, twin lenses folding view finder within a leather caseMarked "Melbourne Tramways Australia" on the top of the leather cover, and the full name of the MMTB , Melbourne Australia on one side of the camera.mmtb, camera, photography -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Map - Metlink folder - Travel Smart Maps, "Melbourne's Public transport Map", 2005 to 2006
Set of four maps issued by Metlink - 2005 to 2006 contained within a Metlank badge plastic folder. Maps published in association with Melway 1 - 5 x 8 fold map with card cover dated Jan 2005 with a price of $2. Detailed map showing rail, tram and bus routes. 2 - 6 x 4 fold map for Moonee Valley - Travelsmart - for public transport, walking and cycling - dated 2005 3 - 7 x 4 fold map for Moreland - Travelsmart - for public transport, walking and cycling - dated October 2006 - includes notes on taxis. 4 - 7 x 4 fold map for Ride to Work day - 5 Oct. 2005Yields information about Melbourne Public Transport network.Metlink plastic folder containing maps.maps, metlink, public transport, moreland, moonee valley, travelsmart -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Document - Photocopy, "Back in Them Days' ", c1992/93
Photocopy of cover and five pages extracted from a publication - "Back in Them Days' " - an oral history of Preston edited by Roger J. Jones. Extract features "Tram building" at Preston workshops, features an interview with Clive Boxer. Worked at the workshops 1925 for 6 years, through to 1974, described the construction of trams, working conditions, working hours, the bosses, Industrial relations, wages, repairs, overhauls, working during the depression, and work done during the war.Has in ink on the front cover "Please return to John" item "Tram building" by Clive Boxer, recorded c 1992/93.trams, tramways, preston workshops, oral history, preston, tram bodies -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Book, "Melbourne's Tramways", 1985
Book - 84 pages black and white on gloss paper + colour card covers, centre stapled, titled "Melbourne's Tramways", written by David Keenan, published by Transit Press's in 1985. Gives an overview of the Melbourne, tramway development, the system itself including operation, fares, tickets, crew training, tramcars and their maintenance, track, power supply, tram routes, depots and allocation at the time. Has maps of the system, Preston workshops, depots, tramway track types, electrical system and services details of routes, running times and service frequencies along with many photographs. Includes photos of emergencies, track work and other aspects of the system in 1984. 'Has a sticker in the top right hand corner "TDO $12.00"trams, tramways, melbourne, tramways, history, trackwork, depots, fares, tickets, training, tram routes, tramcars, maintenance, power supply, maps, operations -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Legal record, "2012 Enterprise Agreement One - Operations", 2012
Document or book - 96 pages, clear plastic cover, black card page, black wire bound titled "2012 Enterprise Agreement One - Operations", setting out the industrial agreement between Yarra Trams (KDR Victoria), the Australian Rail, Tram and Bus Industry Union, Tram and Bus division (RTBU), the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) and employees. Applicable from 2012 to June 2015. Covers application and operation, consultation and dispute resolution, type of employment and termination, wages and related matters, hours of work, leave and public holiday and other conditions. Has a table of contents.trams, tramways, yarra trams, unions, employment, agreements, rtbu, apesma -
Melbourne Tram Museum
Film, "B1 class tram, the last farewell", 2017
DVD produced to mark the last Farewell B1tram tour on 12-11-2017 with tram 2001. Produced by Johnathon Scutt with the Scutty Ark logo. See item 7589 for the Z1 & Z2 40th Anniversary & B1 Farewell tram tours.Demonstrates a DVD recording of a tram tour and the work of Johnathon Scutt.DVD inside a black plastic box with printed cover insert.tram tours, tramcars, dvd, scutty ark, b1 class, tram 2001 -
Clunes Museum
Work on paper - SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK
Exercise book, with multi coloured front cover, hand written entries, author unknown. Contains English, arithmetic, grammar, geography and dictation dated 18th August 1886 to 4 October 1886Nilschool work book -
Moorabbin Air Museum
Book - A 1950's description of all things to do with operation of civilian aircraft and airports, ie such things as navigation, air space control, general air craft engine types, aircraft design. Does not have specific aircraft detail. THE WORLD'S AIRWAYS AND HOW THEY WORK, THE WORLD'S AIRWAYS AND HOW THEY WORK, 1950
... . THE WORLD'S AIRWAYS AND HOW THEY WORK Cover jacket showing black ...A 1950's description of all things to do with operation of civilian aircraft and airports, ie such things as navigation, air space control, general air craft engine types, aircraft design. Does not have specific aircraft detail. THE WORLD'S AIRWAYS AND HOW THEY WORKCover jacket showing black and white sketch of 1950's four radial engine passenger aircraft in flight, between orange coloured band top and bottom of cover.non-fictionA 1950's description of all things to do with operation of civilian aircraft and airports, ie such things as navigation, air space control, general air craft engine types, aircraft design. Does not have specific aircraft detail. THE WORLD'S AIRWAYS AND HOW THEY WORK -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Observations of an orderly : some glimpses of life and work in an English war hospital, 1917
249 p.non-fictionwar hospitals, war work (non-combatants), world war 1914-1918, biography -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Kings of the Prairie by B.M. Bower, 1946
Western novel. Last of a series due to death of the author.Hardcover book, 252 pages. Book has a blue cover with an image of men and horses. Book is a western novel.fictionWestern novel. Last of a series due to death of the author.b.m. bower, westerns, fiction -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, The cambric mask, 1900
v. ; 325 p. : dark blue-black cover, with title embossed in gold. Title and author's name embossed in gold on spine. fictionfiction, robert w. chambers, kaleno/pitfield mechanics' institute -
Linton Mechanics Institute and Free Library Collection
Book - Novel, Ralph Rashleigh by James Tucker : edited by Colin Roderick, 1952 [based on a manuscript believed to have been written in 1845]
The adventures of a Londoner who is transported as a convict to NSW. The book was published as the work of James Tucker, a convict transported to NSW in 1827 who is thought to have died in 1888. However authorship by Tucker has never been confirmed, although the book is understood to reflect the realities of convict life.303 p. : includes map: 'Port Jackson and Environs circa 1828'. Plain red cover, original dust jacket removed, title and author's name handwritten on spine.fictionThe adventures of a Londoner who is transported as a convict to NSW. The book was published as the work of James Tucker, a convict transported to NSW in 1827 who is thought to have died in 1888. However authorship by Tucker has never been confirmed, although the book is understood to reflect the realities of convict life.australian literature, james tucker, new south wales - historical fiction, colin roderick [editor], new south wales - convict life -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Invicta Australian 1965 Petter Fielding Log Book Log Book, 1955
On the front cover, 1955 Business Diary No.41 is crossed out and 1965 Petter Fielding Log Book is written over them in blue biro. Log Books were used and still are these days to record information for many different work needs.A damaged small brown Invicta Australian 1955 Business Diary No.41 with two days on a page. The front cover lists the brand, and detail already mentioned, with 1955 Business Diary No.41 crossed out and 1965 Petter Fielding LOG book written over them in blue biro. The printer and publisher is printed at the bottom. There is tan cloth tape holding the covers together on the left. Inside it has the calendar for 1955, postal, money order and telegraph Information along with other miscellaneous information. It was used as a Log Book for a Petter Fielding engine which was manufactured in 1952. The entries start 21/7/65 and finish Sun 2/3/2008. On the page Monday 4 July 1955 there is an entry dated Mon6/7/59 with little or no information apart from a few names and costs.There is a Cash Account section at the back.non-fictionOn the front cover, 1955 Business Diary No.41 is crossed out and 1965 Petter Fielding Log Book is written over them in blue biro. Log Books were used and still are these days to record information for many different work needs. books, documents, notebooks, log books, engines -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Book, "MTPA - Museum Guidebook", 1985
Book compiled by Criag Tooke for the Melbourne Tramcar Preservation Association c1985. Details the history of the organisation, its tramcar collection at the time and its works. Has on the front cover VR tram No. 30. At the time of cataloguing, the MTPA had on loan to the BTM, two trams, VR 41, L 103 and W2 407.Yields information about work of the MTPA.Book - 25 A4 pages + covers wire bound.mtpa, museums, guide book, vr trams, haddon -
Ballarat Tramway Museum
Administrative record - Report, "Legend - Track gauges", 1954/55
Record shows the condition of the rail head at many points throughout the Ballarat system. Gives the type of rail, its weight, gauge, location and date of measurement See item 9127 for a report on the Special Work. Some sections measured in May 1954, rest May 1955Demonstrates a detailed report into the condition and wear of the Ballarat Tramways trackwork in 1954/1955.Report - within a manila card folder with steel clips containing about 44 drawings on drawing paper of rail sections.Outside cover in ink "Legend Track Gauges"ballarat, secv, trackwork, rails, reports -
Wyndham Art Gallery (Wyndham City Council)
Painting, Marlene Gilson, Waa Waa - Crow Feathers, 2021
Waa Waa – Crow Feathers is a painting from Aunty Marlene Gilson’s 2022 exhibition ‘Bunjil Wour Kun Ya – Spirit of My Ancestors’. This work tells the story of Waa-Waa, the first Wadawurrung to see a white man, Matthew Flinders and his crew surveying the southern Australian coastline near the You Yangs on 1 May 1802. Speaking to Wyndham Art Gallery’s curatorial framework themes of Foregrounding, Habitat and Localism, the work portrays in Wadawurrung lore the first sighting of a European and acknowledges Australian First Nations peoples original and ongoing connections with land, history, politics and knowledges of place. The scene is overlooking the You Yangs which is deeply connected with the local place and habitat of the Werribee Plain. Aunty Marlene Gilson is a Wathaurung (Wadawarrung) Elder living on country in Gordon, near Ballarat. Marlene Gilson’s multi-figure paintings work to overturn the colonial grasp on the past by reclaiming and re-contextualising the representation of historical events. Learning her Wathaurung history from her grandmother, Gilson began painting while recovering from an illness. The artist’s meticulously rendered works display a narrative richness and theatrical quality akin to the traditional genre of history painting. Gilson, however, privileges those stories relating to her ancestral land, which covers Ballarat, Werribee, Geelong, Skipton and the Otway Ranges in Victoria. Often including her two totems, Bunjil the Eagle and Waa the Crow, Gilson’s paintings not only reconfigure historical narratives, but display her spiritual connection to Country. australian first nations art, cultural story, australian painting, wathaurung, female artist -
Victorian Railway History Library
Book, 30 Days On Australia's Railways - A diary of September journeys, 2014
An entertaining look at railway events in Australia in the month of September - from 1848, when a meeting was called to start a railway company in New South Wales, to 2013, when the great Bayer-Garrett AD6029 steam engine was restored to working order. For some strange reason, September has been a month when particularly memorable railway events tend to occur. Author David Burke has crafted a 'diary' which documents, day by day, major happenings to do with railways in Australia - from the days of steam, to diesel, to diesel-electric and electrification, covering the first trains that ran between New South Wales and Queensland, and to Melbourne. It was in also September that the first sod was dug for the Trans-Australian Railway across the Nullarbor to Perth. The book is heavily illustrated with historic photographs, both black and white and colour, newspaper cuttings, sketches and maps, and features 13 paintings by renowned railway artist Phil Belbin. Names that leap to the fore among those who made railway history happen include Ben Chifley, the locomotive driver who became Prime Minister of Australia, engineer Dr John Bradfield, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and responsible for putting Sydney's city trains underground, James Fraser, first Australian-born Chief Commissioner for Railways, and Harold Young, the Scotsman who designed the C38 engine and the Silver City Comet. Cover picture shows: Climbing the steep Fassifern Grade with a heavy coal train maakes for plenty of Bayer-Garrett action in Phil Belbin's painting of the AD60 class at work on the Shorty North line to Newcastle New South Wales Australia.ill. p.172.non-fictionAn entertaining look at railway events in Australia in the month of September - from 1848, when a meeting was called to start a railway company in New South Wales, to 2013, when the great Bayer-Garrett AD6029 steam engine was restored to working order. For some strange reason, September has been a month when particularly memorable railway events tend to occur. Author David Burke has crafted a 'diary' which documents, day by day, major happenings to do with railways in Australia - from the days of steam, to diesel, to diesel-electric and electrification, covering the first trains that ran between New South Wales and Queensland, and to Melbourne. It was in also September that the first sod was dug for the Trans-Australian Railway across the Nullarbor to Perth. The book is heavily illustrated with historic photographs, both black and white and colour, newspaper cuttings, sketches and maps, and features 13 paintings by renowned railway artist Phil Belbin. Names that leap to the fore among those who made railway history happen include Ben Chifley, the locomotive driver who became Prime Minister of Australia, engineer Dr John Bradfield, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and responsible for putting Sydney's city trains underground, James Fraser, first Australian-born Chief Commissioner for Railways, and Harold Young, the Scotsman who designed the C38 engine and the Silver City Comet. Cover picture shows: Climbing the steep Fassifern Grade with a heavy coal train maakes for plenty of Bayer-Garrett action in Phil Belbin's painting of the AD60 class at work on the Shorty North line to Newcastle New South Wales Australia.railroads -- australia -- history., railroad travel -- australia -- history. -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Saw Mill Log Book
Log Books were used and still are these days to record information for many different work needs. This small one would have been very practical for ease of use kept on-hand in a pocket.A damaged small black plastic covered Saw Mill Log note book with purchases listed 1963 - 1992. Various names and the wood bought is listed with measurements and amounts ordered and supplied. There is a small white envelope inside with listings noted.non-fictionLog Books were used and still are these days to record information for many different work needs. This small one would have been very practical for ease of use kept on-hand in a pocket.books, documents, notebooks, log books -
Tatura Irrigation & Wartime Camps Museum
Work on paper - Menu, Farewell Dinner menu
Original menu for farewell dinner for Captain MacInnes. tan piece of paper. landscape, folded in half. Front cover has a colour drawing of a ship, flying the medical red cross emblem. Under this is hand writing in black ink and the medical insignia of a snake and wand and wreath. Inside on right page, in black ink, handwritten is the menu. Back page, in black in is the signature of people whom attended the function. Farewell Dinner to Captain A MacInnes, D Company 17th Garrison Battalioncaptain macinnes, alan macinnes, d company 17th garrison battalion, internment camps ww2, medical officer camp 4 tatura -
Mont De Lancey
Book, Matheson's Australian Saw-Millers' Complete Log and Timber Ready Reckoner
Log Books and Ready Reckoners were used and still are these days to record information for many different work needs. This small one would have been very practical for ease of use kept on-hand in a pocket. It was invaluable to carriers and all persons engaged in the timber trade.A damaged small brown cardboard Saw Millers' Complete Log and Timber Ready Reckoner book. It has a Preface, Tables No. 1, 2 and 3. which give full details of round timber, circumference of logs, contents of timber in general building sizes and full details of circumference of circles and more. There are handwritten notes inside the back cover. Opposite the title page is an advertisement for high grade circular saws and knives. Pp.120non-fictionLog Books and Ready Reckoners were used and still are these days to record information for many different work needs. This small one would have been very practical for ease of use kept on-hand in a pocket. It was invaluable to carriers and all persons engaged in the timber trade.books, documents, notebooks, log books, ready reckoners -
Warrnambool and District Historical Society Inc.
Book, A Souvenir of Warrnambool
A collection of 20 photographs which shows different aspects of Warrnambool. In 1896 Joseph Jordan was given exclusive rights to produce a souvenir booklet for the 1896-97 Warrnambool Industrial and Arts Exhibition. The Jordan studio sold many publications such as albums, which featured local scenes, as well as postcards, and greeting cards for different occasions and portraits The Jordan studio was a significant photographic studio in Warrnambool. They produced a large volume of work which is a useful record of scenes of the Western District and Warrnambool. This Souvenir booklet was a memento of an important event in Warrnambool. The advertisements also provide a record of people in business at that time.Pale green light card cover with dark blue text and illustrations which consist of title in the middle of cover with floral border along bottom with drawing of bird inset in floral picture at the top. The contents consist of 18 illustrations and a number of advertisements. One loose page with same text as book and advertisement for R. F. Kennedy chemistPublished by J Jordan Warrnambool.j jordan, jordan photographers, warrnambool, jordan photographs, warrnambool souvenir -
Mission to Seafarers Victoria
Book (item) - Scrapbook, W.H.C. Darvall, Victorian Seamen's Mission Scrapbook No 1, c.1896
This scrapbook holds numerous newspaper clippings recording events, functions and visits to the Seamen's Mission starting in 1896 through to 1902, although a few documents date from 1895. These dates coincide with the commencement of Mr WHC Darvall's various terms of office with the Mission from the mid 1890s. Mr Darvall's involvement with the Mission possibly stems from his arrival in Victoria in 1853 part working his passage from England as a purser on the migrant ship Asia. He first encountered Captain Pascoe on arrival at Williamstown who was also on the Mission executive when Darvall returned to Melbourne from Beechworth in 1871. 1898: Death of Captain Crawford Pasco with a photographic portrait. 1899: Small ink sketch by artist Charles Georges Darvall, WHC Darvall's cousin. 1900 Foundation of Geelong mission 1901: Queen Victoria's death (22 January) Australian Federation (1st January) Boer War (189-1902) Death of chaplain Ebenezer James Nautical exhibition On the inside of the rear cover of the book a plan of Williamstown has been pasted with no date provided. This scrapbook outlines the many events, concerts, important visits and social occasions held at and by the Mission during this time frame. It includes the names and activities of many prominent Melburnians (politicians, supporters, artists) and shows the vivacity of the work at the Mission.Sticker on the front cover: "Victorian Seamen's/Mission/Scrap-book/No. 1/Commencing/ January 1896 Ending - victoria-missions-to-seamen, w h c darvall, mission to seamen, seamen's mission, maritime exhibition, queen victoria, royal merchant seaman orphanage, charles g. darvall, william henry charles darvall (1830-1906), queen victoria (1819-1901), boer war, charles georges darvall (1831-1924), sunbeam, lord brassey, crawford atchison denman pasco (1818-1898), concerts, library association, merchant seamen orphans asylum, snaresbrook, frederica mitchell, kitty grindlay, syllabus, amateur concerts, port melbourne standard, cole's book arcade, the port gazette, the port melbourne standard, hereward, maitland -
Merri-bek City Council
Hand printed vintage black and white silver print, Untitled 2, c. 1980
Stephen Wickham is an Australian photographer and painter who has been actively exhibiting his works since the 1980s. A long standing preoccupation with Mt Buffalo since the 1980's has seen the artist produce a number of photographic suites and exhibitions that have been likened to German Romantic iconography and associated heavily with the European migrant experience (Robert Nelson, The Age 16 June 2001). Born to Viennese parents, hiking in the mountains for Wickham represents a traditional European family pastime. This series of work is comprised of expeditionary photographs taken between 1980 and 1985. Charles Green describes Wickham's landscape photographs as sublime, transcendental, spiritual and symbolic (Art in Australia Spring 1988). Set in Victoria’s Mount Buffalo National Park, the Mount Buffalo series captures the mountain plateau during winter. Rather than focusing on a lush green landscape, Wickham presents the viewer with close-ups of the snow-covered flaura and fauna of the alpine region.Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Miriam Kenter in memory of Master George Willibrord Kenter -
Merri-bek City Council
Hand printed vintage black and white silver print, Untitled 5, c. 1980
Stephen Wickham is an Australian photographer and painter who has been actively exhibiting his works since the 1980s. A long standing preoccupation with Mt Buffalo since the 1980's has seen the artist produce a number of photographic suites and exhibitions that have been likened to German Romantic iconography and associated heavily with the European migrant experience (Robert Nelson, The Age 16 June 2001). Born to Viennese parents, hiking in the mountains for Wickham represents a traditional European family pastime. This series of work is comprised of expeditionary photographs taken between 1980 and 1985. Charles Green describes Wickham's landscape photographs as sublime, transcendental, spiritual and symbolic (Art in Australia Spring 1988). Set in Victoria’s Mount Buffalo National Park, the Mount Buffalo series captures the mountain plateau during winter. Rather than focusing on a lush green landscape, Wickham presents the viewer with close-ups of the snow-covered flaura and fauna of the alpine region.Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Miriam Kenter in memory of Master George Willibrord Kenter -
Merri-bek City Council
Hand printed vintage black and white silver print, Untitled 6, c. 1980
Stephen Wickham is an Australian photographer and painter who has been actively exhibiting his works since the 1980s. A long standing preoccupation with Mt Buffalo since the 1980's has seen the artist produce a number of photographic suites and exhibitions that have been likened to German Romantic iconography and associated heavily with the European migrant experience (Robert Nelson, The Age 16 June 2001). Born to Viennese parents, hiking in the mountains for Wickham represents a traditional European family pastime. This series of work is comprised of expeditionary photographs taken between 1980 and 1985. Charles Green describes Wickham's landscape photographs as sublime, transcendental, spiritual and symbolic (Art in Australia Spring 1988). Set in Victoria’s Mount Buffalo National Park, the Mount Buffalo series captures the mountain plateau during winter. Rather than focusing on a lush green landscape, Wickham presents the viewer with close-ups of the snow-covered flaura and fauna of the alpine region.Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Miriam Kenter in memory of Master George Willibrord Kenter