Neighbourhoods Strolling through Sandringham May 2020 Jane explores Sandringham, Victoria, Australia with her neighbour and highlights local history and creative efforts.
Museum Howard Arkley From modest beginnings in the late 1980s, the Lyon Collection has grown to become one of the largest and most significant contemporary collections in the country. Following selected artists over the course of their evolving practices, the Collection includes Australian artist Howard Arkley
Victoria The Lyon Housemuseum Corbett Lyon, a well-known Australian architect, art patron & leading collector of Australian Contemporary Art since 1990. He developed the Lyon Collection with his wife Yueji, housed in the Lyon Housemuseum in Kew, Melbourne. (Image: Broadsheet.com; LyonFoundation.com.au)
Gold Sovereign Hill Sovereign Hill is a 30-acre outdoor museum, which appeals to overseas visitors, as well as Australians, discovering a unique, living experience of Australia’s gold mining history, presented with a rare degree of accuracy and integrity.
The Moon To the Moon and Back via Geelong Art Gallery "Moon" paintings from Geelong Art Gallery- works by Kiyochika Kobayashi, Arthur Streeton, Charles Blackman, Clarice Beckett, William Hunter, Janet Dawson, Walter Withers, Godfrey Miller.
Exhibition You can still find gold nuggets in Bendigo Bendigo Art Gallery, one of Australia's oldest & largest regional art galleries was founded in 1887. Bendigo architect WC Valhand supervised the conversion of the former Bendigo Volunteer Rifle’s orderly room ( View Street) into a home for the Gallery’s collection. (Wikipedia)
Women Artists Another Clarice... Australian painter Clarice Beckett Clarice Beckett was an Australian Tonalist painter (born in Casterton, Victoria 1887, died Sandringham, Victoria 1935) known for her misty and foggy works often painted in and around Melbourne and the Bayside suburbs especially around Beaumaris and Sandringham. Image: glenicewhitting.com
Contemporary An Australian Connection to Vincent Van Gogh Emily Koenders' gallery is hidden at the rear of her Australian colonial homestead located in Ruby, a tiny town in South Gippsland. Her connection to Vincent Van Gogh – being his great, great, great, great niece. Credit: south-gippsland.com