Living in Melbourne

On our way in to see the Balenciaga exhibition at the Bendigo Art Gallery we came across this exhibition. I've seen some of this batik work before at the NGV in Fed Square. It is quite remarkable. Indigenous women in five distinct communities in Central Australia - Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon (Kaltjiti), Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore (Walungurru) - … [Read more...] about Desert Lines: Batik From Central Australia

En route to the mallee in early November we stopped off at the Bendigo Art Gallery to see this exhibition. Until recently I haven't been greatly interested in couture fashion but a combination of movies about fashion designers at MIFF over the years and exhibitions at the NGV have awakened my latent fashion sensibility! This provided a timely … [Read more...] about Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion

On the 2nd of November we went down to Wallington to see our neighbour Annie's paintings which were on display as part of the Northern Bellarine Arts Trail 2019. It's a great initiative and given more time we would have visited some of the other artists, but we were taken up admiring Annie and Keith's wonderful garden. We've been a few times now … [Read more...] about Northern Bellarine Arts Trail

On the 15th of October I visited the Tarrawarra Museum of Art to check out the 2019 Archibald Prize entries. I've never been to Tarrawarra before. It's a beautiful building in a beautiful location. Here's the view from the entry corridor on the way into the gallery itself. The museum was opened in 2003 by philanthropists Eva and Marc Beson. In … [Read more...] about The Archibald at Tarrawarra

Ever since I saw it a couple of years ago I've been keen to take the tourist bus to Chadstone. It goes from Federation Square and I thought taking it out was a good way to check out Melbourne from a tourist perspective. Though, in the event I'm not sure many of my fellow passengers were tourists. I love the fact that it's a pink bus! Linda was … [Read more...] about On the Buses – 2 – Chadstone

I took two bus trips at the start of October. The first when I and two friends joined the Melbourne Women's Walking Group on a bus trip to the native garden at Cranbourne on Sunday 6 October. We were able to do so because one of our number is a member. The group was established in 1923 because the Melbourne Walking Group would not admit women as … [Read more...] about On The Buses – (1) – Cranbourne Gardens