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

Postcards began to be produced in Victoria from 1876. Between 1900 and 1920, picture postcards in Australia became an incredibly popular phenomenon. People could cheaply and easily send messages, without the formality of a letter, and they provided a cheap form of souvenir. Eventually, every event of significance was commemorated in some way with a postcard, and this led to the development of a ‘picture on one side and a message/stamp on the other’ postcard we are familiar with today. They were also a popular form of advertising. This postcard appears to be one in a set of postcards promoting the Black Rock area.Sepia toned postcard depicting Half Moon Bay at Black Rock.black rock, beachside, foreshore, holiday, postcard

half moon bay, elizabeth presa, child, boat, water, poem, bayside city council, public art, scultpure

watercolourcoast, water, landscape, boat, red bluff, half moon bay, sandringham, cliffs, william oliver, bayside, port phillip bay

Sybil Craig, Half Moon Bay c.1930, pencil and watercolour, 21 x 18.8 cm. Bayside City Council Art and Heritage Collection. Purchased 2020.half moon bay, sybil craig, bayside, coast, bathing box, bathers, black rock, boat, landscape

charcoal on papersandringham, craig gough, coast, boat, port phillip bay, sailing, black rock jetty, pier, half moon bay

elizabeth prior, boats, sailing, bay, water, half moon bay, black rock, bayside

Postcards began to be produced in Victoria from 1876. Between 1900 and 1920, picture postcards in Australia became an incredibly popular phenomenon. People could cheaply and easily send messages, without the formality of a letter, and they provided a cheap form of souvenir. Eventually, every event of significance was commemorated in some way with a postcard, and this led to the development of a ‘picture on one side and a message/stamp on the other’ postcard we are familiar with today. They were also a popular form of advertising. This postcard appears to be one in a set of postcards promoting the Black Rock area.Colour postcard with a handtinted photograhic image of the cliffs at Black Rock beach, known as Half Moon Bay. People can be seen picnicing on the sand with tide out and a portion of seawall is visible.beach, holiday, black rock, photography, hand tintin

Postcards began to be produced in Victoria from 1876. Between 1900 and 1920, picture postcards in Australia became an incredibly popular phenomenon. People could cheaply and easily send messages, without the formality of a letter, and they provided a cheap form of souvenir. Eventually, every event of significance was commemorated in some way with a postcard, and this led to the development of a ‘picture on one side and a message/stamp on the other’ postcard we are familiar with today. They were also a popular form of advertising. This postcard appears to be one in a set of postcards promoting the Black Rock area.Postcard with photographic image which appears to have been hand tinted depicting Half Moon Bay beach at Black Rock. In the foreground in tea-tree bush, the foreshore has beach shacks on it, along with many small boats moored in the bay. A long jetty enters the bay. The photograph has been taken from the cliff top. Printed in red ink on the top right hand corner of the image is "Pier, Half Moon Bay".postcard, beach, landscape, holiday

Postcards began to be produced in Victoria from 1876. Between 1900 and 1920, picture postcards in Australia became an incredibly popular phenomenon. People could cheaply and easily send messages, without the formality of a letter, and they provided a cheap form of souvenir. Eventually, every event of significance was commemorated in some way with a postcard, and this led to the development of a ‘picture on one side and a message/stamp on the other’ postcard we are familiar with today. They were also a popular form of advertising. This postcard appears to be one in a set of postcards promoting the Black Rock area.Colour postcard from a hand tinted photographic image depicting the foreshore at Half Moon Bay, Black Rock. There are people in the foreground wading in the sea, a man sitting in a small boat near the shore, several other boats around, people deeper in the water in the background, and a range of beach shacks/bathing boxes in the far background.beach, holiday, leisure, boating, bathing boxes, recreation, foreshore, seaside

kevin taylor, red bluff, cliffs, black rock, port phillip bay, half moon bay, bayside, coast, beach, boat

acrylic on canvassandringham, craig gough, bayside, half moon bay, coast, port phillip bay, sailing, landscape, sandringham band rotunda

acrylic on papersandringham, craig gough, night, rotunda, coast, boat, port phillip bay, sandringham band rotunda, half moon bay, rooftops

charcoal on papersandringham, craig gough, coast, boat, port phillip bay, sailing, half moon bay, ship

charcoal on papersandringham, craig gough, coast, boat, port phillip bay, sailing, half moon bay, roof tops, palm tree

charcoal on papersandringham, craig gough, coast, boat, port phillip bay, sailing, half moon bay, palm tree, sandringham band rotunda, fountain, rotunda

boats, bay, water, half moon bay, black rock, bayside, john trebilco, aerial, houses, streets, coast, beaumaris, beach road

Thought to have originated in Austria in 1869, postcards first gained popularity in Australia in the 1890s.They were used to send short messages to friends and family. This collection was generated by Mary Emma Elliot of Talgarno. Talgarno is a rural locality in Victoria, Australia, situated on the southern shoreline of Lake Hume, about 23 km east of Albury-Wodonga. The collection contains postcards from across the world. Mary Emma Sibley was born in Ironbark, Bendigo in 1859. She married James Elliot in 1893 and they settled at “Kelso”, Talgarno. They had two children – Mona and Sibley. Mary Emma Elliot died in Melbourne in 1944, aged 84 years. Australian postcards collected by Mrs. James Elliot between 1898 and 1915. 1405.301 Corra Lin 1405.302 Moonlight on the River 1405.303 Horsemen on an Australian Station 1405.304 A Fern Gully 1405.305 Many Topped Tree-Fern 1405.306 River Yarra. Warburton 1405.307 River Yarra at Heidelberg 1405.308 Scene at Heidelberg 1405.309 Woodend Road opposite Braemar 1405.310 Nellie Stewart 1405.311 Half Moon Bay, Torquay near Geelong 1405.312 Mount St. George, Lorne, Victoria 1405.313 Banks of the Yarra, Warburton, Victoria 1405.314 Malhinna Falls, Healesville, Victoria 1405.315 Trentham Falls 1405.316 Rural Scene 1405.317 Fishermen's Return 1405.318 Barkly St - Ararat 1405.319 Pulpit Rock, Buffalo Mountain 1405.320 A Mountain Cascadepostcards, collecting, collections, talgarno