DeAnne
Mike CrowlPhotos, Art and History
January 19th 2007 04:00
If you live in Bendigo, Victoria, in Australia, and you have an artistic talent, you still have time to go in for one of two competitions: the Bendigo Work on Paper Prize. You can enter a drawing, a collage, watercolour, photography (including digital images) and any other medium on paper. This competition closes on the 11th February, so get those artistic cells moving! Photographers also have a chance to enter their work in another competition for the Millowick Photography Prize. This prize is donated by Julie Millowick, the senior lecturer in photography at La Trobe University.
In connection with this second prize, particularly, there’s a great exhibition going on at the Bendigo Art Gallery. This is a fantastic exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London of nearly 100 photographs exploring the lives of ten well-known figures from history. Many of these photos had previously been lost, suppressed or hidden. The ten people are a real mixed bunch (to put it mildly): Muhammad Ali, James Dean, Mahatma Gandhi, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Queen Victoria.
Can you imagine these ten people in a room together? What sort of conversations would ensue? Some of the people would be overwhelmed by the others, I suspect, and some, like Hitler, and maybe Muhammad Ali, would dominate the talk.
Did you know: La Trobe University is named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, who was the first Superintendent of the Port Phillip District from 1839 to
1850, and first Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony of Victoria from 1851 to 1854. He was a man of great talent, supervising the establishment of self-government, the public library, art gallery, a university, and the development of the gold fields.
He’s also famous for ensuring that a minimum of 20% of all land in Melbourne and its surrounding suburbs contain parkland. This old legislation has helped Melbourne to remain one of the great cities of the world.
In connection with this second prize, particularly, there’s a great exhibition going on at the Bendigo Art Gallery. This is a fantastic exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London of nearly 100 photographs exploring the lives of ten well-known figures from history. Many of these photos had previously been lost, suppressed or hidden. The ten people are a real mixed bunch (to put it mildly): Muhammad Ali, James Dean, Mahatma Gandhi, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Queen Victoria.
Can you imagine these ten people in a room together? What sort of conversations would ensue? Some of the people would be overwhelmed by the others, I suspect, and some, like Hitler, and maybe Muhammad Ali, would dominate the talk.
Did you know: La Trobe University is named after Charles Joseph La Trobe, who was the first Superintendent of the Port Phillip District from 1839 to
Governor La Trobe
He’s also famous for ensuring that a minimum of 20% of all land in Melbourne and its surrounding suburbs contain parkland. This old legislation has helped Melbourne to remain one of the great cities of the world.
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