Physical description
Framed abstract painting by Catherine Chapman
Inscriptions & markings
signed lower right "Catherine Chapman"
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Framed abstract painting by Catherine Chapman
signed lower right "Catherine Chapman"
Lizzie Gervasoni was the daughter of Luigi and Eliza Gervasoni. She was born at Yandoit Creek, Victoria.
Black and white photograph of Eliza Ritzau who married Luigi Paolo Gervasoni, of San Gallo, Bergamo, Italy. Eliza Ritzau who was born in Mt Blackwood, Victoria to Prussian parents Auguste Ritzau and Charlotte Benneckendorf. Luigi was the Son of Nicola Gervasoni and Giovanina Gervasoni of San Gallo. Their daughter, Elizabeth (Lizzie), was the youngest of their children. She was educated at Holy Cross, Daylesford, and married Joseph Pedretti. The couple lived in Bergamo House, Yandoit Creek.
yandoit creek, luigi gervasoni, eliza gervasoni, eliza ritzau, elizabeth gervasoni, lizzie gervasoni, lizzie pedretti
Catherine Gervasoni married John Gervasoni, son of Luigi Gervasoni.
Black and white photograph of Catherine Gervasoni in the vineyard at Yandoit Creek.
yandoit creek, catherine gervasoni, vineyard
Nicola Gervasoni was born at Yandoit Creek, Victoria.
Black and white photograph of Nicola Gervasoni Australian born son of Luigi Gervasoni and Elizabeth Ritzau.
yandoit creek, nicola gervasoni, nicol gervasoni
This photograph was taken during the 'locals opening' after the Covid 19 lockdown.
Colour photograph of the National School tent at at Soverreign Hill.
sovereign hill, tent, architecture, nationanal school
Colour photograph of architecture at Soverreign Hill featuring a bark roof, and canvas roof,
sovereign hill, tent, architecture, diggings
Colour photograph of architecture at Soverreign Hill featuring a bark roof, and canvas roof,
sovereign hill, architeture, tent
john hepburn, captain hepburn, tom hepburn
Colour photorgraph of the Former Happy Valley School.
happy valley, happy valley school, school bell
Bill LONGLEY (03.12.1933 – 20.5.2020) Arrived Australia 1981 Bill Longley started an apprenticeship with “Kingwood Rural Industries” Surrey in 1948. In 1956 is changed name to “Greyshott Pottery" After serving in the Royal Air Force from 1954 to 1977 he undertook and later, teacher training, then bought the “Penderleath Pottery”, St Ives, Cornwall in 1977 from Anthony Richards and renamed it the “Cripplesease Pottery.” Bill made a wide range of domestic stoneware. He built up the pottery into a successful business, eventually selling in 1981 and migrating to Australia with his wife Sue. In Melbourne, Bill Longley made and sold pottery at weekend markets, as well as helping Robert Gordon (June Dyson’s son) set up his Pakenham pottery, which Gordon started in 1979. Bill Longley worked as an advisor and thrower with Robert Gorndon for some time." Bill retired in the late 1980s to Daylesford Works may be marked with an impressed 'Bill Longley, Australia'.
Blue Vessel by Bill Longley
australian studio ceramics, bill longley, pottery, ceramics
Bill LONGLEY (03.12.1933 – 20.5.2020) Arrived Australia 1981 Bill Longley started an apprenticeship with “Kingwood Rural Industries” Surrey in 1948. In 1956 is changed name to “Greyshott Pottery" After serving in the Royal Air Force from 1954 to 1977 he undertook and later, teacher training, then bought the “Penderleath Pottery”, St Ives, Cornwall in 1977 from Anthony Richards and renamed it the “Cripplesease Pottery.” Bill made a wide range of domestic stoneware. He built up the pottery into a successful business, eventually selling in 1981 and migrating to Australia with his wife Sue. In Melbourne, Bill Longley made and sold pottery at weekend markets, as well as helping Robert Gordon (June Dyson’s son) set up his Pakenham pottery, which Gordon started in 1979. Bill Longley worked as an advisor and thrower with Robert Gorndon for some time." Bill retired in the late 1980s to Daylesford Works may be marked with an impressed 'Bill Longley, Australia'.
Blue Vessel by Bill Longley
australian studio ceramics, bill longley, pottery, ceramics
Hepburn Primary School opened as a Common School in 1864. The present school was built with local bricks around 1877.
Colour photograph of a red brick school at Hepburn.
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Ballarat Buildings Fact Sheets produced for the Ballarat Heritage Weekend in 2011 by Ballarat Heritage Services.
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Framed abstract etching of flower vendors.
terry blizzard, flora
Recently painted.
105 Lyons Street South, Ballarat Central is a double brick Spanish Mission house with slate roof.
105 lyons st south ballarat central, spanish mission, architecture, slate roof
Peel Street Ballarat Railway Gates and signal box.
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Peel Street Ballarat Railway Gates and signal box.
railway gates, ballarat east, signal box, peel street
Remnant Wall from the Ballarat East Railway Workshops at the intersection of King Street NOrth and Corbett Street Ballarat East.
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Colour photographs of a large development being built at the back of 18 Lyons Street South, Ballarat Central. Photographs were taken from the footpath.
lyons street south, ballarat
St Laurence O'Toole church and cemetery is located in a rural setting at 801/821 Creswick-Newstead Rd, Sandon. Originally a small wooden school (22’x14’) was erected in Sandon by Father Patrick Smyth (who was involved in the Eureka Stockade movement) in 1859. It was also used for Mass and became known as a chapel. In June 1882 tenders were called for the construction of a brick Church by the Castlemaine architect, T.F. Kibble, and it was built at a cost of 1000 pounds. The church was blessed by Archbishop Goold on 06 May 1883 and dedicated to St Laurence O'Toole. The brick building demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Rudimentary Gothic style, including the steeply pitched, parapet gable roof form, together with a central steeply pitched, gabled porch that projects slightly from the main gable end. Other intact qualities include the exposed brick wall construction, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, minor gabled porch at the rear, small ventilation dormers nearby the roof ridgeline, series of stone steps that lead to the central porch with its double pointed door opening and vertical boarded doors, simple rose window in the main gable end, pointed windows, brick buttresses with double lower copings, and the light masonry detailing (the banding marking the floor level within, buttress copings, window and door surrounds and quoins, and the drip moulds).(Shire of Mount Alexander: Heritage Study of the former Shire of Newstead, 2000) The visually connected cemetery demonstrates important visual qualities formed by the regular rows of graves and cemetery architecture, and the grassed and treed rural landscape. It is a rare and substantially intact example of a Victorian Catholic Church with a cemetery in its churchyard. Many headstones and cemetery architecture, date from the 19th century and represent some fine examples of masonry craftsmanship. Some refurbisments occurred during the 1940s and in 2002 a major restoration project was undertaken from roof to footings, by a dedicated band of volunteers and trades people. Work was completed mid 2003 and in November 2003 St Laurence’s was re-dedicated with the celebration of Mass and a picnic tea.
Colour photograph of a long drop toliet at the Catholic Church, Sandon, Victoria.
sandon, sandon cemetery, st laurence o'toole catholic church, sandon
Title for 327 Armstonf St South, Ballarat
327 armstong st south, ballarat, title
Colour photograph of Covid19 Panemic Dining Rules at Red Spoon, Warrnambool, 2020. Social Distancing of 1.5 m was in force, and numbers in restaurant were greatly reduced to assist nin reducing the spread of Covid19, and diners had to sign in and wait to be seated by staff.
warrnambool, horse, beach, coast, dawn, dominic brine
This photograph was when Regional Victoria was able to travel around the state, but Melbourne was still in Covid19 lockdown.
Colour photograph of a Covid19 social distancing sign on the Warnambool breakwater.
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Colour photograph of horses swimming at Warrnambool breakwater.
warrnambool, horse, beach, coast, dawn
Red soft cover catalogue of an exhibition of works by completing Bachelor of Visual and Media Art students
non-fiction
gippsland centre for art and design, alumni, switchback gallery, tony hanning, lucy chapman, megan cousins, rebecca gelll, jamie hall, chelsea ipenburg, hayden jackson, olivia king, rhys knight, claire marston, christopher miller, hannah o'loughlin, owyne turner
A bluestone Lutheran church at Tabor, Victoria
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Sheep Hills is located Sheep Hills in the northern Wimmera region, north-west Victoria between Warracknabeal and Minyip. The hotel was built in 1884 and was originally known as Jenkins Hotel. In 1903 it was called the Railway Hotel. The name Commercial Hotel was used from 1915, and Mr Cain bought the hotel in 1950. in 2017 it was a private residence.
A brick hotel at Sheep Hills, Victoria
sheep hills, commercial hotel, wimmera
Sheep Hills is located Sheep Hills in the northern Wimmera region, north-west Victoria between Warracknabeal and Minyip.The Sheep Hills cenataph is opposite the Mechanics' Institute. The cenotaph commemorates those from the district who served in World Wars One and Two and lists the names of those who died in the conflict.
Sheep Hills War Memorial
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Sheep Hills is located Sheep Hills in the northern Wimmera region, north-west Victoria between Warracknabeal and Minyip.The Sheep Hills Mechanics' Institute was established in 1888.
Weatherboard Mechanics' Institute at Sheep Hills Victoria
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A bush scene near Italian Hill, Daylesford.
bush, daylesford
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