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

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.

‘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.

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.

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

Newspaper article: Diamond Valley Leader, 27 April 2005, No to car wash. Letter 25 July 2005 from Minter Ellison Lawyers attaching VCAT notice of adjournment. Letter 5 September 2005 re Application for review of Application for Review P1036/2005. Letter 6 September 2005 from Apex Building Design Studio to Minter Ellison Lawyers re carwash development. Newspaper article: Diamond Valley Leader 20 February 2007, Gateway 'blob' bid fails test, Nillumbik Council rejected plan for 3 story building, 12 offices, ship, 8 homes. Notice of Decision to Refuse to Grant a Permit, Application 191/2023/02P, Nillumbik Shire Council, 4 Oct 2023main road, eltham, property, businesses, carwash, apex design studio, eltham gateway, minter ellison lawyers

Photocopy advertisement, sale three corner properties at Main Road intersection, by Burgoyne family. Newspaper article: Nod for medical centre plan, Diamond Valley News, May 31, 1995 - Nillumbik Council approved plans for medical facility and chiuld minding centre at the corner of Bridge Road and Main Road however not all members of the Planning Special Committee were in support - eventually did not proceed and units were built with the address of 72 Bridge Roadmain road, eltham, property, burgoyne family, medical centre, 72 bridge street, 826 main road, bridge street, child minding centre, don cordell, jim connor, nillumbik planning special committee, tony lazzarotto

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

In December 2014 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program funding to create new interpretative signage at the Kangaroo Ground Tower of Remembrance in Garden Hill. This was the result.Born Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, memorial park, shire of eltham war memorial, kangaroo ground, interpretative signage

The Lasting Memories Mosaic Group Seat is part of Nillumbik Shire Council's Public Art. Following the Black Saturday Bushfire of February 7, 2009, which ravaged St Andrews and surrounding district, a group of bushfire affected women formed the Lasting Memories Mosaic group and created this concrete seat covered in mosaic as part of their healing process. It was completed in 2012. For more information see Nillumbik Shire Council's link Public Art: Lasting Memories Mosaic GROUP, Lasting Memories Mosaic Seat - https://victoriancollections.net.au/items/58536395d0ce201b746561c6fay bridge collection, fay bridge, mosaics, st andrews, lasting memories mosaic group seat, st andrews hall

Letter from Nillumbik Council to H.Gilham in response to consultation on Wattletree Road Bridge replacement, 13 August 2007, 1p. VicRoads brochure on Wattletree Road bridge replacement project, August 2007, 1p Photo of "Coleman's house", 1904 with brief family history. (Photo retrieved by Harry Gilham from from a 1972 'time capsule bucket' found at the Eltham Shire Office during its demolition in July-August 1996 (See also SEPP_0745 and 1678A) Photo of "Coleman's house", 1971 Survey plan showing location of Coleman's houseFolder of information and photos relating to the Colemans Corner precinct located on the corner of Main Road and Wattletree Road, Eltham. HG Booklet 9bus services, wattletree road bridge, coleman family, coleman's corner, harry gilham collection

Newspaper article: Order upsets family, Diamond Valley Leader, 5 October 2005, Helen Fitzpatrick ordered to vacate Nillumbik Council owned property at Alan Marshall Reserve for creation of a park. Newspaper article: Nature calls again for a real blessing, Diamond Valley Leader, 5 October 2005, St Margaret's Anglican Church to hold annual blessing of the animals service. Newspaper article: Family gets council reprieve on house until 2007, Diamond Valley Leader, 12 October 2005, Helen Fitzpatrick permitted to remain at property until 2007.main road, eltham, helen fitzpatrick, anna fitzpatric, molly fitzpatrick, ellen fitzpatrick, alan marshall reserve, bronnie hattam, bill forrest, greg johnson, libby delbridge, st margaret's anglican church eltham, gordon roberts

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills war memorial, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finshed at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In May 2015 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program funding for the restoration and enhancement of the Christmas Hills cenotaph as a project to commemorate the First World WarBorn Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, christmas hills, tour, interpretative signage

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills war memorial, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finshed at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In May 2015 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program funding for the restoration and enhancement of the Christmas Hills cenotaph as a project to commemorate the First World War Born Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, christmas hills, tour, cenotaph, group

27 colour snapshots taken on the occasion of the presentation of awards. The ceremony was conducted in the new Eltham Library. This was the final Shire of Eltham Alan Marshall Short Story Award. The presentation was held during the Nillumbik Shire Council period.shire of eltham archives, series listing

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finished at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In June 2014 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac centenary Local Grants Program funding to create new interpretative signage that acknowledged the history of the Hurstbridge Memorial Recreation Park as a memorial to all who served in the First World War. Born Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, interpretative signage, hurstbridge

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finished at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In June 2014 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac centenary Local Grants Program funding to create new interpretative signage that acknowledged the history of the Hurstbridge Memorial Recreation Park as a memorial to all who served in the First World War. Born Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, hurstbridge, interpretative signage

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finished at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In June 2014 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac centenary Local Grants Program funding to create new interpretative signage that acknowledged the history of the Hurstbridge Memorial Recreation Park as a memorial to all who served in the First World War. Born Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, hurstbridge, interpretative signage

Former Eltham Courthouse, 730 Main Road immediately prior to major restoration works undertaken by Nillumbik Shire Council. The Courthouse is the oldest public building in the shire. It was built in 1860 and ceased operations as part of the Court of Petty Sessions in 1985.Tomorrow's history documented todayeltham, jim connor collection, main road, eltham gateway, eltham courthouse, eltham justice precinct, avenue of honour

Series consists of 25 colour negatives taken on the occasion of the presentation of awards. The ceremony was conducted in the new Eltham Library. This was the final Shire of Eltham Alan Marshall Short Story Award. The presentation was held during the Nillumbik Shire Council period.shire of eltham archives, series listing

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046Nillumbik Shire Council - Shire of Eltham Archives Series 046 Series consists of colour photographs, 215mm x 150mm, depicting citizens and speakers at the meeting, including CEO Rodney Roscholler.Colour photograph1994, council amalgamation, nillumbik shire, public meeting, shire of eltham, series 46, shire of eltham archives

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills war memorial, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finshed at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In May 2015 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac Centenary Local Grants Program funding for the restoration and enhancement of the Christmas Hills cenotaph as a project to commemorate the First World War An interpretative project lists names on the honour roll for Christmas Hills and District Born DigitalChristmas Hills and District Honour Roll World War 1 1914-1918 Lest we forget Arthur Stanley Ashmore James Edward Betts Herbert Eugene Borner Harry Conway* George Benjamin Muir Henry (Harry) Thomas Muir George Peter Maurice Saltau George Edwin Smith James Henry Sumner John Valentine Wilson* *Killed in actionworld war 1, war memorials, shire of nillumbik, christmas hills, interpretative signage, list, names, honour roll

As part of a program to acknowledge the Anzac Centenary Nillumbik Shire Council partnered with Yarra Plenty Regional Library to provide a bus tour with commentary of local sites of significance. These included Eltham township, the Shire of Eltham War Memorial at Kangaroo Ground, Christmas Hills, Hurstbridge memorial recreation park and finished at Eltham Library to view the Writing the War exhibtion at Eltham Library Community Gallery. In June 2014 Nillumbik Shire Council received Anzac centenary Local Grants Program funding to create new interpretative signage that acknowledged the history of the Hurstbridge Memorial Recreation Park as a memorial to all who served in the First World War. One of the panels discusses women. Born Digitalworld war 1, war memorials, hurstbridge, interpretation panel, interperative signage