None

A Job Skills Public Arts Program in 1996-97 which also made three other original mosaics and a series of hand painted step edges around Queens Park Cottage.

Public Art, Mosaic

Helen Bodycomb

A Mosaic depicting time; day, night, young old, seasons and growth

None

seasons, time, growth, life, death

None

A rural scene from Early occupation of the Port Phillip Area

Lanscape.

A small water colour towards the foreground are cattle a small roughly hewn cottage in the mid ground in the distance Hills

unsigned

colonialism, occupation, conquest

None

A fun and jolly presentation of a pair of socks

Painting

A pair of blue and red, with white dots, socks hang over a white background .

None

fun, silly socks, colour, form

None

A generic interpretation of a feminine body

Drawing

A large drawing, Ball Point Pen, on Paper a generic female figure, front on, wearing a long dress with full slit walks towards the viewer

Signed Lower Right

identity, belonging

None

An expression of unsustainable Systems

Printmaking

A lithograph of blues and Blacks, in a sea a square rigged sailing ship sits in calm waters above a floating silhouette of a figure highlighted in what seems to be a spotlight, four other spotlights a seem coming from the sky in the background

Signed, dated, titled and editioned on bottom edge

colonialism, power, consequences, death, consumerism, greed

None

A community project responding to the Municipality of Mooney Valley

Tapestry, Community / Public Art

A tapestry created primarily in hues of Greens and Blues, representing a map of the Moonee Valley Council area, featuring the Moonee Ponds Creek, Maribyrnong River and Steele Creek, other features include Built urban spaces, Queens Park Lake and a Peregrine Falcon in the orientation of a flag

No Inscriptions

community, place, space, process

None

A Marquette created for demonstration of a large Public Art Commission responding to a project brief to Commission a playful easily accessible and interactive Public Art Work.

Sculpture, Public Art

A small hollow figure with the body of a stringed musical instrument and the head of a person. What appear to be the instruments strings are brightly coloured, green, red yellow and blue, emerging from the top of the head is a curved steel rod with a bell attached to its end, the figure appears to have a tail of steel. The figure stands on two posts attached to a circular disc on the ground.

Text on a small disc in the centre front of the body.

plat, music, fantasy, joy

none

Made in a traditional method of Bizen (High temperature firing)

Ceramics

A round unglazed vessel, fired at very high temperature, a small raised lip at the top locates the vessels opening

No inscriptions

process, objects

None

Suggesting ambiguous or uncertain identity and sense of belonging

Australian Indigenous, Contemporary

Painted grid of ocher colours with lines and dots, behind are hand prints on a dark ground three holes seemingly burnt through the canvas suggest a means of seeing through the grid.

Signed Lower Right

identity, belonging and not, tradition, acceptance

None

Surealism, Photography, Digital Media

A figure, whose head is wrapped in a cloth, within a large ring, Golden Mean, partially submerged in water is repeated into the distance until no longer visible. The figure rotating clockwise as it sinks below the water level, all within a tumultuous sky.

Signed Titled and editioned on mount

psychology, dreams, repetition, identity

None

Surealism

An open right hand, on the palm is a closed timber arched door

Signed bottom Right

psycology, acceptance, understanding, contradictions

None

Landscape

Landscape A eucalyptus tree in the right for ground to the left a small yacht (Skiff) landed on a small beach the occupants unseen presumably exploring the thick forest.

Signed lower Left

australian bush, sailing, isolation

None

A seemingly Futuristic image alluding to a culture of surveillance

Painting, Surealism

A large image of an eye mounted to the underside of a large concrete bridge (over Pass) set within an Urban environment

Signed, Dated and Titled on Reverse side

surveilance, futurism, science fiction

None

A record of architectural features and ambient qualities of the historically significant building

Photography

10 Sliver Gelatin Photographs of 10 points of interest within the Incinerator Complex

On reverse side

architecture, history, light and dark (chiara scurro), ambience

None

A response to Pop culture of the time within Australia

Popular Culture

A stary night fly 2 UFO a land scape 10 dogs bark among scattering of bones and a bird flaps its wings.

All inscription and Marking on reverse side

story telling, popular culture, ufo, life and death

None

An abstract non objective field of textures and fields

Abstraction, Nonobjective

A Large watercolour and Gouache field of mostly grey and Black interspersed with light blues and mustard areas

All inscription and Markings on Reverse side

abstraction, colour and tone, non objective

None

Landscape

A deep green gathering of lush moist tree ferns among a forest

Signed bottom Left corner, small plaque bottom centre of frame

rain forest, ancient of time, environment, habitat

None

Derived from an industrial environment, Transport and shipping

Print making, Frotage

Monochromatic Frottage from a timber container with a sign FINEMORES

Inscriptions and Marking on reverse side

transport, frotage, printmaking, industry, identity

None

An Ideal concept or state of mind.

Watercolour

A swan swimming, floating, in water with three signets near by.

Signed bottom right, a small plaque toward the centre bottom of mount board

tranquility, ideals, bliss

None

An Urban View to a City Centre

Landscape, Cityscape

Across suburban roof tops in the distance are the high rise of the junction

On reverse side

urbanism, landscape, belonging, space and place, conflict, change

None

A significant natural Landscape of Victoria

Landscape

Victorian open forest landscape looking up to the peak of the Mountain shrouded in wispy clouds

Signed bottom Right corner

victorian landscape, natural environments, elemental forces

None

Urbanity, everyday life in the suburbs and the variances it contains

Painting, Urban Landscape

A view of some majour features and locations of Mooney Valley, Race Track, Roads, homes, High rise buildings and parks

On reverse side

urban bliss, identity, community, safety and security, belonging, space place

None

Western District Indigenous Collective

Abstracted Goanna image from above, blocks of colour and texture

All inscriptions and markings on reverse side

goanna, creation, myth

None

Cityscape, a busy junction, a hub of activity and a community meeting space

Cityscape, Watercolour

Watercolour Moonee Ponds Junction, cars and trams, the Clock Tower Centre Left

Signature bottom right

cityscape, everyday life, community

None

Australian Landscape of an agricultural setting, sparsely treed yet forested in the steeper realm of the Mountain

Landscape

A rural open grassland with a few trees looking across to Cathedral Mountain in central East Victoria , a sky of cumulus clouds and blue

Signed Bottom Left corner

agriculture, landscape, sky, occupation

None

Reflection of past events of significance

Paint

A triptych painted with thick expressive colours a tumultuous dark sky within 2 panels ghost like figures of Burke and Wills can be seen.

Inscriptions and markings on reverse side

history, colonialism, present day

None

Homage to the Zodiac

Quilting, Spiritualism

Represented the 12 signs of the Zodiac on a Black ground

All inscription and Markings on reverse side; Title, Maker, Dimensions and other

zodiac, quilting

None

An iconic Sunrise bringing in a new day

Landscape

Landscape overlooking a valley in the mid ground a row of trees behind the sun is rising

Small plaque attached to the mount board lower central, other identifications on the reverse side

landscape, anticipation, expectation, trepidation

None

Painting

An old brick Court House with 3 arches on the ground floor and an Italianate balcony above set in a rather sparse landscape.

Title and signature lower left, small plaque placed centrally within the mount near lower edge

architecture, law and order

None

A rural township

Landscape, Watercolour

Perhaps a country town looking along a footpath along a street, bright light and cumulus clouds as if expecting a strom to brew

Signature bottom left, small plaque attached to bottom of frame central located

rural urban, environmental conditions