Winne of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2022Alice Wormald, Restless interactions 2021, oil on linen, 122 x 97 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Winner of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2022.painting, bayside acquisitive art prize, alice wormald, restless interactions

Winner of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, 2016.oil on linen mounted on dibondpassivity, fight, body, male, painting, peter westwood, bayside acquisitive art prize, soldier, edouard manet’s "dead toreador"

Winner of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2017. oil on linensnow, figures, animals, painting, michael vale, dream-like, skeleton, pipe, city, bayside acquisitive art prize

Winne of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2018Moya McKenna, Boombox 2018, oil on canvas, 86.5 x 122.5 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Winner of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2018.oil on canvasboombox, painting, moya mckenna, bayside acquisitive art prize, antennae, music player

Winner of the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, 2015.oil on linen (diptych)snow, landscape, trees, figures, kevin chin, winter, bayside acquisitive art prize, pig

Winner of the Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2019. oil on linendani mckenzie, camp, figures, painting, bayside acquisitive art prize, tent

Winner of Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize 2020-21.ngura, country, alec baker, yankunytjatjara, indigenous, bayside acquisitive art prize

Bob Kelly paints landscapes of culturally significant sites along the Mornington Peninsula and depicts these locations as he imagines they originally were before colonisation. Using traditional Western painting techniques, Kelly records the underlying spirit of the Peninsula from a Wathaurong perspective. Chinaman’s Creek in Capel Sound (Rosebud West) was an important watercourse that originally ran from Wonga (Arthur’s Seat) down through Tootgarook Swamp into Port Phillip Bay. It was a great fresh water and food source and home for many Boonwurrung people. Since settlement over 170 years ago, the creek has been drained, blocked, reconstructed and damaged. Kelly depicts a lush green landscape in which the clean creek water winds through the surrounding vegetation of spinifex grasses and gum trees, the background hills are abundant with trees, untouched from man's intervention. Using painstaking detail, Kelly records each blade of grass and ripple on the surface of Chinaman’s Creek. His attention to detail serves to powerfully reimagine this important cultural site, returning it to its former pristine state, and reinvigorating its role as a key place of sustenance for the Indigenous populations of the Peninsula. Chinaman's Creek was a finalist in the 2017 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize.oil and acrylic on canvaslandscape, creek, trees, chinaman's creek, painting, indigenous, robert kelly, bayside acquisitive art prize, bob kelly, wathaurong, rosebud, arthur's seat, tootgarook swamp, port phillip bay, boonwurrung