ARTIST Melanie Caple has been tasked with making Frankston’s utility boxes more appealing to the eye. Caple’s designs for the utility boxes are inspired by the Frankston landscape. Her past work has been exhibited across Australia. Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy said that Caple’s art will add “colour and vibrancy, while reminding us of Frankston City’s beautiful natural environment.” Cr Kris Bolam said “Melanie hand paints the monochrome botanical elements. These designs are then added to a digital design adding the background colours before being transferred to vinyl, which is then applied to each electrical box. The vinyl file, preparation, printing…
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A PLAN for the future of the Kananook Reserve area is being formed. Frankston Council says a plan is necessary to protect the space given the current works on the nearby Frankston Basketball Stadium and Kananook Station commuter car park. It has invited submissions from the public on the space to help it put together a master plan. Frankston mayor Nathan Conroy said council is working with sporting clubs and community groups to put together the plan. “Kananook Reserve is one of our destination reserves as identified in the open space strategy and occupies a central location in this part…
AN Indigenous artwork will be the centrepiece of the redeveloped Mentone Life Saving Club building. Artists Aunty Kim Wandin and Amanda Wright have been tasked with creating the artwork. Curator Christine Joy and public art specialist James Voller will also collaborate on the piece. Aunty Kim Wandin is a Wurundjeri Woirurrung woman who makes baskets and eel traps. Her work has been publicly exhibited and acquired by private and state collections. Palawa artist Amanda Wright has been involved in arts projects in the Yarra Ranges, and has worked on many Indigenous murals at schools. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos said that…
CARRUM MP Sonya Kilkenny has been promoted into the state government’s ministry. Kilkenny picked up four portfolios after a recent reshuffle. She is now the minister for corrections, youth justice, victim support, and fishing and boating. The new appointments to the ministry were made after the resignations of five senior MPs – James Merlino, Martin Foley, Lisa Neville, Martin Pakula, and Richard Wynne. Premier Daniel Andrews said that the changes would increase the representation of women in the state government. “These appointments bring the number of women in the Victorian cabinet to 14, more than any other Australian jurisdiction, with…
A LEGAL loophole allowing supermarkets to be built next to gaming venues could cause damage to the community, Kingston Council says. Council has called for the law to be amended to prevent supermarkets from being built near venues with pokies. Kingston mayor Steve Staikos said “it’s nonsensical that you can’t build a gaming venue next to a supermarket, but you can build a supermarket next to an existing gaming venue.” “This gap in logic leaves our communities open to the very real trauma of gambling harm,” he said. VCAT recently approved the construction of a Woolworths on a site roughly…