Souvenirs! Mementos! Gifts from Melbourne! Christmas presents for relatives and friends overseas? Whatever we call them we all need to buy them at sometime. There are clip on koalas, painted boomerangs, cuddly Kangaroos with a Joey in the pouch, cute wombats, beautifully painted didgeridoos – difficult to travel with………. Great souvenirs but once you…
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There’s a wonderful and soothing ‘construction’ on display in the National Gallery of Victoria. It is in conjunction with the Monet Exhibition….’ Monet’s Garden’. You don’t have see the exhibition to appreciate this intriguing art work. A large pond or small lake ( water is nothing new to the gallery -they have it running…
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Clothes! Think of a movie you loved – think of the main character and focus on the scene you loved best. I bet if you are a woman you will think of what your character is wearing. Perhaps that is not always true when you think of THAT scene in the Deli from…
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I went to the ACMI theatre for the first time last weekend. In all the time I have lived in Melbourne I hadn’t been before. Of course I have been to Federation Square but never to the theatre. And I can’t tell you why. I went to see The Quiet Man, a film my…
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Middle Park – preserved Old Melbourne Tourists to Melbourne often see this city as the CBD and Lygon Street in Carlton. That was the way I saw Melbourne when I first visited here. I came a couple of times a year re-newed my friendships with these spots and of course the cake shops in…
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During the wine and food festival the Express Lunch promotion was a good way to check out a top restaurant at a reasonable price. $40 with a glass of Australian wine. Our first booking was at Bristo Guillaume in the Crown Entertainment Complex, with its wonderful location on Southbank and its striking entrance way….
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Books – old, new, first editions, read once and passed to another reader – there is a charm in these old books. As a student I wandered the corridors of the University Library, stroking and gazing at all the books. I loved being amongst them. Many were old and had worn covers suggesting a…
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Thomas Demand is a conceptual artist where photography is an essential part of the end product. The photograph is then mounted on Plexiglass. I got to see Thomas Demand’s exhibition, which is now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, because the price was included in the ticket for Jeff Wall’s Photographs at the…
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I went to this exhibition because photographs make up so much of our every day. We snap everything. A table we might buy, the cafe we’re in, the food we’re eating, our latest nail polish effect, our cat doing something silly and so on. We send these quick pics to our friends and family…
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