Over 70 works by 50 contemporary and modern Australian artists will be brought together for this exhibition on the bird. Encompassing works from painting to sculpture, decorative arts, photography, print-making and installation, this exhibition, two years in the making, will explore the science, symbolism, beauty and curiosity of birds. Artists including Albert Tucker, Rover Thomas, Ginger Riley and contemporary artists such as Brook Andrew, Fiona Hall, John Wolseley, Ben Quilty, Christian Thompson, Kate Rohde, Petrina Hicks, Trent Parke and Louise Weaver consider birds as objects of desire, in relation to fashion, history, identity, the environment and as emblems of empire…
Author: Bayside News
Investigators have released CCTV images in relation to an assault on an elderly man in a Frankston shopping centre in July. Police have been told the victim, a 70-year-old Frankston South man, was exiting a supermarket at a Beach Street shopping centre when a woman bumped into him about 1pm. The victim made comment to the woman and a verbal argument eschewed between the pair which escalated into a physical altercation. Without warning, an unknown man ran at the victim and punched him to the side of the head, rendering him unconscious. The man and woman then fled the shopping…
CHELSEA SES members didn’t hesitate last week to come to the rescue of birds in distress – the feathered kind that is. After a call came in to help two distressed birds stuck in a downpipe, the men jumped into action and a rescue plan was devised; remove the pop rivets and release the feathered friends from their prison. Unfortunately, the SES volunteers didn’t know the species of bird until the Indian mynas flew out to the joy of distressed parents waiting nearby. The introduced species is widely considered an invasive pest and some councils around the country have endorsed…
JEWELLERY and cash valued up to $100,000 was stolen from a Carrum house, Monday (14 November). Police said the offenders may have jumped a fence to enter the backyard of the Kemp St property and then used a jemmy to force open rear sliding doors. Once inside they ransacked the main bedroom stealing jewellery and a jewellery box from a walk-in wardrobe. The haul included wedding and engagement rings and watches. The offenders searched upstairs bedrooms before stealing cash from a study in the daytime raid. A witness said she saw a man with white hair and speaking in “a…
FOUR trucks valued at $500,000 were deliberately set alight at a Braeside industrial estate last week. The three five-tonne trucks and a prime mover were extensively damaged and another five-tonne truck and Jeep 4×4 received minor heat damage when an arsonist set them alight, 1am, Wednesday 9 November. Kingston CIU Senior Constable John Barbour said the three trucks targeted were owned by the one contractor, and it appeared the arsonist had singled him out. A witness told police he was driving along Boundary Rd when he saw two trucks on fire in the car park at Breeze Logistics. As he…