In contrast, the vividness of the Coming the other way a smiling smaller, still-life paintings, mainly boy. based on fruits, was a delight. The brilliantly-coloured 'Mangoes I' and It was me. 'MM 'Mangoes H' stood out with their 'Who are you old man?' ha said sharpness of form casting stark I dare not tell him all I could say GRAHAM shadows, and there was a warm was realism in 'Nectarines (Night)', but 'Go back! MCKENZIE AT the pick of the basket was the and the family resemblance of the cheeky liveliness of 'Bananas (Night)'. man and boy in 'Rosebud Foreshore' RECONNAISS­ stirred my imagination most strongly. The artist's use of a window frame ANCE GALLERY in his larger works creates an Stewart Heywood ambiguity within the paintings. The Mr Graham McKenzie has been a window is used as a symbolic device member of the Art Department at the to draw a fine line between the real Prahran campus since 1983. He and dream worlds. It is extremely came to Wesley with a well- effective, allowing the viewer to established reputation in the art move freely through the work according world and a broad experience in to the point of focus, as has the painting and teaching art both in painter in his search for family and overseas. identities. His exhibition of recent works at Of the larger canvases, 'East the Reconnaissance Gallery, 72 Broadway (Lower East Side)', a Napier Street, Fitzroy in May was detailed streetscape, and the both diverse and interesting. emotionally-isolated, sombre figures, Of the oil and charcoal seascapes, painted in muted colours in 'Family barren 'Cape Patterson' had a Landscape', were evocative. However, freshness of tone and 'Sandbar II - I had recently re-read Milligan's Mr Graham McKenzie with 'Rosebud Inverloch' showed a sensitive use of short poem: Foreshore', one of the works in his strong colour. I walked along some forgotten shore. exhibition.

and it is proposed that these will be THE WESLEY duplicated for display at the Glen Waverley campus. COLLEGE ART Wesley College in a unique position to tap its Collections for teaching COLLECTIONS purposes, providing students with The Curator of the College Art the opportunity to explore a rich Collections, Mr Ryllton Viney, recently array of artworks, and exposure to circulated information on the such works can only enhance an Collections which, for the sake of appreciation of the Visual Arts.

clarity, he divided into five distinct in- •••:, categories. Portrait of F.d. Cato, by Sir dohn The Alec Cato Collection. Longstaff (undated). This is by far the largest and most War Museum, London, the Australian significant of the College Collections, War Memorial Collection, , consisting of 106 artworks be­ and the Royal Collection, Windsor. queathed to the College by Mrs Maria Cato, wife of Mr Alec Cato. The Wesley College Collection. This collection consists of numerous Sub-titled the Traditionalists of artworks acquired over many decades, Australian Painting, this was the most of which are hanging in prominent private collection of Mrand Mrs Cato positions throughout the College, for and as such reflects personal taste. example the portrait of Adamson in Gathered during their travels and the Prahran reception foyer. Other selected not for investment value or contemporary/avant garde works by for historical importance, some of emerging young Australian artists the works are by relatively obscure provide balance to the predominantly artists. Nevertlieless, there are traditional/realist work. sufficient examples of works by such 'On a Venetian Canal', a water colour prominent artists as Sir Hans Heysen, The Common Room Association by Sir Lionel Lindsay, 1930. , , Sir Collection. , and Frederick This small collection consists of McCubbin to make this an outstanding works executed by members of the ART EXCHANGE collection. The Collection is currently College staff and purchased through Artwork by Wesley students, re­ touring galleries in New South Wales Common Room funds. Currently presenting all year levels, have been and from 1987 onwards it is intended they hang exclusively in the Staff dispatched to three overseas schools, that it will be housed at the College Common Room, but as the Collection Fivel College, Delftzye, The in the Dining Hall space. grows it will be necessary to find Netherlands, The Albany School, additional wall space. Hornchurch, Essex, U.K., and Madonna The Norma Bull Collection. Academy, Florida, U.S.A. This collection of forty-two works in a The Photographic Collection. variety of media will be housed at the In recent years an attempt has been All are works on paper, including College with the Alec Cato Collection. made to present a visual survey of drawings, paintings, collage, etchings, It consists mainly of works executed past headmasters and other people linocuts, screenprints and mixed by Norma Bull during World War II, of importance in the history of the media and both the Wesley works when she was a war artist. She is College. Many of these enlarged and the works from the other schools represented in many important public portrait photographs are now hanging were on display at the 1985 Arts in collections including the Imperial in the Prahran administration corridor, the Round festival.

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