Art Gallery of Ballarat Annual Report 14-15 Annual Report 2014-15

Chair’s Report 4 Director’s Report 8 Association Report 10 Gallery Guides Report 12 Acquisitions 14 Adopt an Artwork 26 Donations, Gifts, and Bequests 27 Exhibitions 28 EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World 30 Touring Exhibitions 32 Outward Loans 34 Publications & Merchandise 36 Education Report 38

Public Programs 40 ISSN 0726-5530

Gallery Staff and Volunteers 49 Art Gallery of Ballarat Board Members 50 ACN: 145 246 224 ABN: 28 145 246 224 Budget Summaries 52 40 Lydiard Street North Ballarat Victoria 3350 T 03 5320 5858 F 03 5320 5791

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Image right: installation view of EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World Image next page: Hugh DT Williamson Gallery Vision

The Art Gallery of Ballarat where Art Inspires, Stimulates and Challenges Mission

To foster and enrich the cultural life of our city, our region and the Nation by acquiring, conserving and presenting a great collection of art.

Image: installation view of Art and Australia 2003 – 2013 3 Chair’s Report Art Gallery of Ballarat Board of Directors

I often tell people that the Art Gallery of Ballarat is about a city wide program around the exhibition, including withdrawal of our café proprietors early this year allowed us art: we buy it, we show it, we lend it and we store it. The launching the Season of the Arts Program. The Archibald to trial The Salon, a relaxed meeting area, which has been challenge for us is how to do this in a creative and inspiring Prize 15-16 Exhibitions and the Art Gallery of Ballarat major very popular with Association Members, staff and visitors. way. exhibitions will be a key feature of the program. Staff are already working on the 2017 exhibition, something very Whilst it is not yet quite complete, I have worked with the Our 2014-2018 Strategic Plan Building for the Future is the way different and original. It is clear we have an exciting few leaders of the Gallery Association, Foundation and Guides, to we plan to go about doing this, and this year’s milestones years ahead of us. create a draft Gallery Alliance MOU. The MOU will document aim to achieve our four key building pillars: to build an a number of past commitments, and the relationships inspiring exhibition schedule, and to build our footprint, our In coming months, we will begin work on our gap analysis and the expectations each group has with each other. The collection, and our relationships. and concepts for the building redesign. Having the document has taken longer than expected, but should be Archibald Prize Exhibition entrance and other activities in completed early in 2016. This year saw our diverse exhibition schedule once again Alfred Deakin Place has shown how activated the space can continue to deliver successful and profitable exhibitions be with just a little work. Recent discussions about our plans This year, with assistance from the City of Ballarat, we with record visitor numbers attracting people to the gallery with Natalie Reiter, City of Ballarat General Manager, will see continued to support and provide governance professional many for their first visit. a Master Plan for the Gallery precinct developed to support development with other local boards, holding our second our Strategic Plan work in the coming months. Governance Training Day in May. With twenty-five in In my first official duty as Chair, I had great pleasure in attendance, representing at least twelve boards, the overall attending the opening of EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox We are often so focused on what needs to be accomplished feedback was positive with requests for us to do this again. Christian World. Most visitors to this exhibition were from that we forget to stop, review and reflect on what we have outside Ballarat and kicked off our schedule with something achieved. Much of the work for the Board in the past year I would like to thank Natalie Reiter and the City of Ballarat quite unique to Ballarat. has been one of consolidation; it has been a time to review for their ongoing commitment to the Gallery. Thank you our processes, to ensure that after four years with our for having faith in the Board and allowing us to grow and This year the Capturing Flora exhibition on loan to Cairns current governance structure we have the correct processes develop the Gallery as we believe it needs to. Regional Gallery did exceptionally well gaining more than and agreements in place. It is also important to ensure that 25,000 visitors and a request from the Director at Cairns for we have the right people and resources in order for us to In October, we held our second Western Region Gallery more of our ‘home grown’ shows. achieve our vision and deliver the Strategic Plan. Forum with the topic ‘Models of Gallery Directorship’. Gallery Directors from most of our regional galleries attended, and As I write this, the Gallery is experiencing more than 1100 With this in mind, the Board undertook a review of our there was plenty of food for thought with clearly some visitors per day to the Archibald Prize 2015 Exhibition, and City of Ballarat Service Agreements. Key outcomes from interesting challenges for some directors and galleries. the Board is confident we will easily meet projected targets the review include changing the Funding Agreement from and KPIs. These visitors have enjoyed not only the Archibald annual to triennial funding, and updating the Premises To Kelly Smith and her ‘no problems’ attitude, your work with exhibition, but many other Ballarat attractions after a joint Agreement to give control of the café lease to the Board. the Board is greatly appreciated. project with the City of Ballarat saw the appointment of Jennifer Ganske as the Season of the Arts Coordinator. With control of the café lease and liquor licence, the Board Thank you to Gordon Morrison and his team of very has greater flexibility in how we can provide catering for committed and skilled staff for their dedicated work. Once Jennifer worked with a range of key stakeholders to build Gallery events. This was demonstrated when the sudden again, staff across the Gallery delivered another year of 4 5 outstanding exhibitions and results. Congratulations to Ben directors, Stirling Larkin, Simon Cox and Michelle Dunn to Cox for his work on the For Auld Lang Syne catalogue, which the Board. These individuals bring a wealth of experience, won the first prize at the national printers awards for best skills and networks to our Board. quality bound book in Australia in 2014. I thank my fellow Directors on the Art Gallery of Ballarat To assist the Chair this year, we formed an Executive and Board for their commitment to delivery of the Strategic Plan, Risk Sub-committee who oversee Board agendas, follow up and the contribution they make at Board level and on the on outstanding actions and provide advice on key issues. various sub-committees. I would like to thank Peter Afford, Mark Harris and Tunde Meikle for your support this year and assistance on this To our volunteers and Gallery friends, the Gallery committee. Association, and the Gallery Foundation, the Guides, Women’s Association, thank you for your hard work and The Governance and Nominations Committee had a busy commitment to the Gallery and its projects. year developing and reviewing a number of Board policies and procedures. This included a simplification of the Finally, I look forward to the coming year as we work Acquisitions and Deaccession Policies and Procedures, and a together to build and strengthen the Art Gallery of Ballarat formal process for Board Recruitment and Appointment. as Australia’s foremost regional gallery.

This year we farewell several directors including Derek I leave you with a quote from Helen Keller, ‘Alone we can do White, Garry Taylor and Joe Fleming, who left at last year’s so little, together we can do so much’. AGM, or earlier in the year. Angela Carey and Tunde Meikle have not reapplied to the Board due to work and family commitments. I take this opportunity to thank all retiring Cr Vicki Coltman Directors for their contribution over the past three years and Chair wish them well.

We welcomed two new ex-officio members onto the Board this year — Barry Wemyss, President of the Gallery Association and Mark Guirguis, Chair of the Gallery Foundation. Barry and Mark provide a connection for the Board with the Association Members and Foundation Trustees, whilst providing an opportunity for them to contribute to the Board’s overall strategic work.

Stacey Grose has held a casual vacancy on the board since May. I am pleased that we will appoint her and three new 6 7 Director’s Report

Always it seems that it is the major temporary exhibitions In Autumn we mounted the second Guirguis New Art Prize that dominate our reporting and in the 12 months here in conjunction with Federation University. While the winning under review it is no exception. We began this period with work, Lou Hubbard’s Dead Still Standing passed into the the final month of the monumental for Auld Lang Syne University collection, the Art Gallery of Ballarat chose to exhibition and we ended the year with preparations in full purchase Pakitiringa (Rain) by Conrad Tipungwuti. swing for the 2015 iteration of the Archibald Prize. From a human resources perspective the 2014-15 period However, it was during the months from October 2014 was one of continuity with no significant changes to until January 2015 that we mounted an exhibition that report. It almost goes without saying that the Gallery’s was unprecedented in the annals of the Art Gallery of extraordinary ability to present so many exhibitions of such Ballarat – EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World. I a consistently high standard is a testimony to the wonderful make special claims for this exhibition because no other art commitment, talent and endurance of the team we have allery in Australia had ever presented an exhibition devoted here. exclusively to the unique devotional art of the Orthodox Christian world. There had been a small installation of I particularly enjoyed working with Board Chair Cr Vicki mainly Russian Icons at University Galleries, and the Hellenic Coltman, who has such a strong understanding of the Museum in Melbourne had shown a fine exhibition of distinctiveness of our gallery and who champions us so Greek icons and liturgical articles. However, the show in effectively in so many ways. Also it has been a pleasure Ballarat covered most of the Orthodox Christian world: Syria, working with Divisional Manager Natalie Reiter, who has also Cypress, Asia Minor, Crete, Northern Greece and Russia. grasped the concept of a semi-autonomous gallery with both hands, seeing how much potential exists in the new Many of the loans came from one remarkable private model of governance that is at work in the Gallery. We are in collection in Sydney, but this corpus of work was a very strong position to do even more exciting things. augmented by some important loans from the NGV as well as two monumental ‘Cathedral’ icons from the Temple Gallery in London. Nearly 20,000 people visited the Gordon Morrison exhibition including a large number of individuals from Director Orthodox Communities throughout South-Eastern Australia. The beautiful in-house designed and produced catalogue sets a special standard for such publications in this country.

The second of three Victorian Indigenous Art Awards also occurred during this period – once again demonstrating the vitality of indigenous visual arts practice in South-Eastern Australia. Conrad Tipungwuti (b.1966) Pakitiringa (Rain) (detail) 2014 natural ochres on linen, 180 x 240cm. Purchased with funds from the Colin Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 8 9 By far the most pleasurable duty of the Association this Association Report year was to resume hosting Gallery exhibition openings, Unknown to most Members, a core team of Brian Hay, Garry in particular Alumination by thirty post-graduate students Taylor, Loris Button, and Mary Doyle volunteer their time of the University of Ballarat, Paper Scape by local artist Tarli every Monday morning to process and renew Association Glover, and Mycolinguistics by Ash Coates. In all, outstanding Memberships. This dedicated team is the most active group events! The supply of name badges to Association Council of our Council volunteers, and deserve our appreciative members has assisted in identifying them, making clear the thanks. Association’s active assistance with Gallery activities. Our magazine, Association, is a fine example of our proficient The Gallery’s exhibition schedule, which included annual and dedication volunteers as written by, with contributions Victorian Indigenous Art Awards, presented a vast array of from various contributors. This quarterly magazine is vital in medium and subject matter. In particular, the exhibitions keeping Members informed and providing them with items revealed to visitors the Gallery’s commitment to local and of artistic interest. Including a message from the Director, regional artists, along with highlighting the magnitude and New Acquisitions, reports on gallery activities, interviews extent of their work. and member profiles, Association is a quality publication of great interest to Members and readers, near and far. October 2014 saw the significant 130th anniversary of Art Gallery of Ballarat Association, where a capacity All Association Council Members have undertaken varied 300-strong audience heard art valuer Simon Storey share and extensive voluntary work on behalf of the Gallery his experiences, and revealing some of the nation’s archival and Members, and none more so than Treasurer Brian storeroom mysteries. Following Simon’s highly entertaining Hay, and Secretary Anne Beggs Sunter. Together with the talk, Members gathered on the grand, historic Gallery work groups that plan and prepare exhibition openings staircase, witnessing the cutting of the Birthday cake. and coordinate our occasional social events, you are work- beavers extraordinaire — well done, and thank you all! Association memberships have grown this year, and with the ever-attentive work of the Membership Sub-Committee, it is anticipated that it will continue to grow in the lead-up Barry Wemyss to, and during the Archibald Exhibition. With distinctive President and beneficial incentives for Membership, including social function, we are likely to continue to greet new Members.

Coinciding with the extremely popular EIKŌN exhibition, Association members enjoyed a festive night of Greek culture — Greek foods, Greek music, and Greek dancing — in a full house at the Mechanics Institute Minerva Space.

Thanks to Garry Taylor, a bus trip in August offered Members the chance to view the marvellous Masterpieces from the Hermitage at the National Gallery of Victoria. A large group of enthusiastic Members took part in this very successful Association social activity.

10 11 Gallery Guides Report

It is my pleasure to report on the activities and progress of religious worship, we read, discussed and made site visits the Art Gallery of Ballarat Volunteer Guides for 2014–15. to the Serbian Monastery in Elaine and St Patricks Cathedral in Ballarat. The visitor response to EIKŌN through spring The Gallery Guides’ group is made up of forty-one amazing and summer was amazing, with 2647 visitors all told. The people who voluntarily guide visitors through the gallery Guides scheduled extra tours in January, as the numbers collection and designated special exhibitions. In addition, peaked towards the end of the exhibition. Australians at War nine equally amazing people joined us in February 2015 as 1914–1945 during autumn saw lower visitor numbers but trainee guides. They will graduate in November 2015 and they were very appreciative and impressed. we will number forty-eight. The Guides meet twice-monthly and the leadership committee of nine members meet A clear commitment to the study of art is integral to art monthly, in addition. gallery guiding. Throughout the year we participated in a comprehensive program Into the Galleries, which was I am proud to report that the Guides’ basic goal, to welcome devised by our inimitable education team. Experienced and introduce visitors to the Gallery permanent collection Guides used their considerable knowledge about and specific other exhibitions, has been well and truly movements in art, art analysis, history and methodology, achieved this year, with 5,608 people participating in 409 focusing on the Gallery’s comprehensive collection of tours — an average of 107.8 visitors per week. A grand Australian art. Iconography in Christian Orthodoxy was our achievement indeed! As of September, guided tours focus for EIKŌN as were the methods and media used to will increase from five to seven days per week, another record Australian responses to WWI & II for Australians at Adelaide in October for the National AAGGO Bi-annual The Gallery Guides aim to extend the visitor experience milestone! War, while portraiture was a focus in preparation for the conference, Engage. We look forward to much inspiring beyond the Archibald, taking visitors into our permanent Archibald Prize exhibition. input, much socialising and inspiration AND a presentation collection upstairs seven days a week and twice daily, if In July 2014, as For Auld Lang Syne drew to a close, a spike in on the development of our website by Vanessa Burgess, required. visitor numbers meant that we guided 1,462 visitors through Our knowledge of artistic endeavour was also enhanced by who helped to develop it. its lochs and glades. I wish to offer hearty congratulations our organisation of and attendance at the fortnightly public We wish the Gallery staff, Board, Association and Foundation to the Gallery production team, led by Director Gordon lecture program Art Insights at the Gallery and Federation I wish to congratulate the Gallery Director Gordon Morrison a record-breaking, fulfilling Archibald period and offer our Morrison and Exhibition Officer Ben Cox, of the catalogue University. Visits to the Bendigo Art Gallery and the NGV to and staff for the diverse, thought-provoking exhibitions we full and ongoing support to promote the Art Gallery of For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish Australia From First Fleet view exhibitions Ned Kelly and Australians at War extended have seen this year. We have been impressed and enjoyed Ballarat as a premier regional gallery. to Federation, which won a Gold Medal for the best quality our understanding of other galleries and our experience of viewing and promoting each one, especially The Inimitable bound book in Australia in 2014 at the 2014 Media Super other guiding techniques. Mr Meek, curated by our guide colleague Joan Luxemburg. National Print Awards. Well done! Veronica Stott Our very own website, as it develops and grows continues As I conclude, I am mindful of the enormous amount of Convener No sooner had the lilt of the bagpipes faded and the to enable paper-saving access to our invaluable resources planning and workload required of Gallery staff in readiness Ballarat tartan been folded away, than we Guides launched and up-to-date information. for the Archibald Exhibition. Many artworks have been into a learning frenzy in preparation for EIKŌN: Icons of relocated, the building looks fresh and marketing minds the Orthodox Christian World. In coming to grips with the Fourteen Art Gallery of Ballarat Guides will be among the have been preparing for what augers to be a busy six weeks. challenging concept behind the images used in Orthodox gallery guides from across Australia who will gather in 12 13 Acquisitions

PAINTINGS — AUSTRALIAN Frank Hodgkinson Lars Stenberg Cave 1957 Tipperary Track II (Grey trunks) 2006 Louis Abrahams acrylic on board 56 x 76 cm acrylic on canvas 50.7 x 101.8 cm Lion’s head 1880 Purchased with funds from the Colin Gift of Maria Ridsdale, 2015 oil on board 11.9 x 11.9 cm Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 Gift of the Estate of Beverley Brown, Conrad Tipungwuti 2015 Narritjin Maymuru Pakitiringa [Rain] 2014 Crabs circa 1960 natural ochres on linen 180 x 240 cm Yvonne Audette ochres on bark 40.7 x 16.2 cm Purchased with funds from the Colin Moving symbols No4, as seen in a burnt Gift of Simon Storey, 2015 Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 landscape 1995-98 oil on plywood 122 x 182 cm Alec Mingelmanganu Unknown artist Donated through the Australian Wandjina circa 1971 Wandjina not dated Government’s Cultural Gifts Program earth pigments on bark 114 x 74 cm natural pigments on bark 41 x 23.5 cm by Yvonne Audette, 2015 Purchased with funds from the Colin Purchased with funds from the Colin Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2014 Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 Richard Crichton see image left Seaside 1963 Unknown artist oil on board 122.3 x 122.3 cm James Oldham [Spirit figures] not dated Donated through the Australian Lake Burrumbeet 1893 natural pigments on bark 43.5 x 22.5 cm Government’s Cultural Gifts Program oil on canvas 51.3 x 68.7 cm Purchased with funds from the Colin by Matthew Crichton, 2015 Gift of Ian Oldham, 2014 Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 Tibor Wiener William Dobell John Passmore Self portrait with palette circa 1945 Study for ‘The Cypriot’ circa 1938 Up the orchard 1946 oil on board 63 x 47 cm oil on board 27.2 x 28 cm oil on canvas 45.5 x 35.5 cm Purchased with funds from the Art Gift of the Estate of Beverley Brown, Purchased with funds donated in Gallery of Ballarat Foundation, 2015 2015 memory of Margaret Martin with assistance from Robin and Andrew Harold Greenhill Ferry and the Association, 2014 PAINTINGS — INTERNATIONAL The Gasball, Manly 1943 oil on board 39.4 x 47.2 cm Jim Paterson Unknown artist Purchased with funds from the Colin Broken Hill 2007 Portrait of Mrs Henderson circa 1824 Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 gloss enamel and latex acrylic on oil on canvas 63.8 x 51 cm see image p48 board 125 x 369 cm (two panels) Purchased with funds from the Joe Gift of the artist, 2014 White Bequest, 2014 14 15 DRAWINGS — AUSTRALIAN watercolour & ink on paper 28 x 37.7 cm We should have objected more... 2013 The best drink of all times not dated [view through trees to bridge & houses] William Blandowski, Purchased with funds from the Colin Fair Trade 2013 gouache, pencil & ink on paper not dated James Redaway & Sons Amanda Ahmed Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 The protests must be so upsetting 2013 21.7 x 14.2 cm pencil on paper 50.5 x 34.7 cm group of 6 works Of Faith 2015 I thought you said he’s changed 2013 The very best beer of all time not dated Arthur the rigger 1942 Foot of Diogenes Monument, 4 miles N graphite on Schoellershammer paper Jim Paterson The man who fell to earth again 2013 gouache & ink on paper 16.8 x 10.1 cm pencil on paper 52.2 x 33.5 cm from Mount Macedon, 40 miles NNW 12 x 12 cm Imaginary Heads 2000–01 Oops 2013 Goat not dated [woman looking left] 1942 from Melbourne 1855-56 Gift of the artist, 2015 ink on 32 sheets of paper 76.7 x 105.8 cm Its Rudd’s people again 2013 ink on paper 11.2 x 12 cm pencil on paper 52.2 x 34.6 cm engraving on paper 21.3 x 27.9 cm Gift of the artist, 2014 Australian treachery 2013 Brighton Cathedral not dated [hand study for East Melbourne mural] Diogenes Monument “Anneyelong” Kim Anderson Who killed Cock Robin 2013 pencil & ink on paper 32.8 x 20.9 cm not dated looking south towards Mount Macedon group of 3 works Norma Redpath Former thriving country town 2014 Cocktail bar, Shamrock Hotel, Bendigo pencil on paper 29 x 22.6 cm 1855-56 Untitled (banana peel #1 & 2) 2014 Flight from Jerusalem (also known as [email protected] 2014 not dated [figure study - arms up, for East engraving on paper 21.2 x 28.1 cm pen on 2 sheets of paper, each 17 x 18 cm Exile into Egypt) 1952-55 Australia Day all over again 2014 ink on paper 26.5 x 20.8 cm Melbourne mural] not dated Water over basalt columns “Noer”, 30 Untitled (two rats) 2014 ink & wash on paper 45.5 x 57 cm [Putin] 2014 [tree - unfinished drawing] not dated pencil on paper 36.4 x 25.2 cm miles NNW from Melbourne not dated copic liner on paper 38 x 28 cm Purchased with funds from the Lois The workers get liberated... 2014 pencil on paper 37.5 x 26.5 cm [head study - bearded man, for East engraving on paper 21.4 x 28.3 cm Untitled (kangaroo vertebrae) 2014 Valerie Sheldon Bequest, 2015 They’re doing it tough down south 2014 Taradale not dated Melbourne mural] not dated “Pattowatto”, Granite Boulder (Perrys copic liner on paper 30 x 24 cm The Last Samurai 2014 ink on paper 34.5 x 43.3 cm pencil on paper 44.2 x 28.4 cm Haystack) looking NW 47 miles N by W of Purchased with funds from the Elinor SPOONER The wink 2014 Railway Station, Taradale not dated The Beauty of Victoria - Taradale Melbourne 1855-56 Morcomb Bequest, 2014 group of 38 works Change of plan 2014 ink on paper 34.3 x 43.3 cm not dated engraving on paper 21.3 x 28 cm Liquidation Sale 2013 The self-made Knight 2014 Post Office, Taradale not dated pencil & ink on paper on card Browns Dos a Dos near Mount Macedon Yvonne Audette watercolour & ink on paper 18 x 24.9 cm 34 works, watercolour & ink on paper ink on paper 43.5 x 34.2 cm 32.7 x 20.8 cm 45m N by W from Melbourne 1855-56 Study for ‘The Refugees’ 1955 Acceptable imagery 2013 27 x 37 cm Malmsbury not dated Hitler’s fallacy - you must fight to live engraving on paper chine colle print ink & wash on paper 22.5 x 25.5 cm ink on paper 27 x 37 cm Donated through the Australian ink on paper 34.1 x 43.2 cm circa 1940 21.1 x 28.3 cm Donated through the Australian Kim Jong-un 2013 Government’s Cultural Program, 2015 Malmsbury, near railway, the old ink on paper on card 46.2 x 36.2 cm Compressed Strata, West of Section 512 Government’s Cultural Gifts Program [Denis Napthine] 2014 Commercial pub not dated [soldier] 1942 near Morphet Valley, 16 miles S from by Yvonne Audette, 2015 2 works, watercolour & ink on paper Unknown artist ink on paper 34.1 x 43.2 cm pencil on paper 75.9 x 55.5 cm Adelaide 1855-56 37 x 27 cm [Emily Jones] circa 1860 [buildings at Tahbilk] not dated Donated through the Australian engraving on paper 21.3 x 28 cm George Finey Denis Napthine 2013 pastel on paper 30.5 x 25.7 cm ink on paper 29 x 45.4 cm Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Purchased with funds from the Hilton If 1930s ...a terrible risk to the alpine ecosystem 2011 Gift of the Estate of Beverley Brown, [cottage - possibly at Tahbilk] not dated by David Freedman, 2015 White Bequest, 2014 ink on textured paper 38.8 x 50 cm Ticking the Boardroom boxes 2013 2015 ink on paper 31.7 x 41.5 cm Purchased with funds from the Joe Dad apps 2013 [bridge and trees - possibly at Tahbilk] Noel Counihan, White Bequest, 2015 The Draft Racial Discrimination Act 2014 Harold Freedman not dated PRINTS — AUSTRALIAN Norman O’Connor Hi, its Wayne 2013 group of 31 works ink on paper 31.5 x 41.4 cm Albert Namatjira 1960s Lucas Grogan After the Resurrection 2013 Portrait of Alan Marshal 1942 [boat house and pier] not dated Arthur Bartholomew, serigraph on paper 41.5 x 18.4 cm Essential Reading 1 2014 Sticking to the message 2013 pastel on paper 61 x 40.5 cm pencil on paper 38.6 x 41.5 cm Charles Troedel, Frederick McCoy Purchased with funds from the Joe ink & acrylic on mount board 51 x 38 cm At least interest rates are on hold 2013 [man and old woman] not dated [boat house and pier] not dated Megascolides australis (McCoy), The White Bequest, 2015 Purchased with funds from the Art The Auto Industry 2013 ink on paper 25.5 x 15.3 cm pencil & ink on paper 38.6 x 41.5 cm Giant Earth-Worm circa 1890 Gallery of Ballarat Association, 2015 $30 billion deficit 2013 [landscape, large central tree] not dated [1880s street scene] not dated chromolithograph on paper Noel Counihan Greg Hunt almost gets it 2013 pencil on paper 37.3 x 26.2 cm ink & gouache on paper 25.1 x 37.9 cm 27.2 x 17.7 cm Image 5 (Old woman) 1981 John D Moore Real economic problems 2014 Bruse not dated [back of buildings - possibly at Tahbilk] Purchased with funds from the Hilton lithograph on paper 55 x 40 cm Surrealist landscape with Stones and Peer review rescue 2014 ink & coloured pencil on paper not dated White Bequest, 2015 Purchased with funds from the Joe Bones 1944 Cleaning up the attic 2013 13.6 x 12.8 cm ink on paper 38 x 50.7 cm White Bequest, 2015

16 17 William Dymock, after John Eyre, Pterostylis woollsii & P.rufa c.1880 coloured, some gum arabic Government’s Cultural Gifts Program John Heaviside Clark 2 works 50.2 x 33.8 cm Purchased with funds from the Victor by David Freedman, 2015 group of 2 works Sarcochilus falcatus & S.montanus 1878 Gordon King Bequest, 2015 View of Sydney from the East Side of the Cleisostoma tridentatum 1878 Harold Freedman, Cove, No.1 & 3 circa 1880 2 works 49.3 x 33.7 cm Harold Freedman, Athol Thompson View of Sydney from the West Side of the Sarcochilus hillii & S.olivaceus 1879 Victorian Railways, FW Niven and Co White City not dated Cove, No.2 & 4 circa 1880 Thelymitra canaliculata & T.ixioides not group of 9 works colour lithograph on paper 50.5 x 63.3 cm chromolithograph on paper 33 x 97 cm dated Men of Service: The Passenger Guard 1947 Donated through the Australian Purchased with funds from the Joe Diuris laevis & D.palleus 1886 101.2 x 63.9 cm Government’s Cultural Gifts Program White Bequest, 2015 3 works 49.3 x 33.5 cm Men of Service: The Workshop Welder 1947 by David Freedman, 2015 Bolbophyllum exiguum & Adelopetalum 101.5 x 63.7 cm Ambrose Dyson bracteatum 1891 Women of Service: The Porter 1947 Harold Freedman Tch! Begging, someone should report it 1941 Bolbophyllum baileyi & Cirropetalum 101.7 x 63.6 cm Ex libris - Ann Bridge not dated drypoint etching on paper 44 x 35.7 cm clavigerum 1891 see image right colour lithograph on paper 11.2 x 7.4 cm Purchased with funds from the 2 works 50.9 x 34 cm Men of Service: The Station Master 1947 Donated through the Australian LJ Wilson Bequest, 2015 Phaius bernaysii 1892 101.5 x 63.3 cm Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 46.9 x 33.8 cm Men of Service: Locomotive Driver and by David Freedman, 2015 George Dancey, Melbourne Punch Caladenia latifolia & C.flava 1889 Fireman 1947 And well he might! 1895 50.1 x 32.7 cm 101.5 x 63.2 cm Harold Freedman, photogravure on paper 40.8 x 28.8 cm Dendrobium bigibbum 1891 Men of Service: text poster 1947 FW Niven and Co Purchased with funds from the Hilton 50.1 x 33.2 cm 101.1 x 63.2 cm RAAF Log 1943 White Bequest, 2015 Diuris sheaffiana & D.platichilus 1888 group of 6 colour lithographs on paper 50.8 x 35.6 cm 49.8 x 33.3 cm Shop Off Peak; it’s cheaper 1950s colour lithograph on paper RD Fitzgerald, Caladenia menziesii & Leptoceras 101.5 x 63.4 cm Donated through the Australian Arthur Stopps, Surveyor General’s Office fimbriata 1889 Victorian Centenary Jubilee Train (1950) Government’s Cultural Gifts Program group of 28 works 49.7 x 33.2 cm 101.1 x 63.4 cm by David Freedman, 2015 Dendrobium phalaenopsis 1880 Sarcochilus rubricentrum 1882 Bendigo Centenary Festival Year (1951) 64.9 x 49.4 cm 49 x 33.2 cm 101 x 63.1 cm Bruno Leti Dendrobium falcorostris 1879 Caladenia labata & C.plicata 1882 group of 3 colour lithographs on paper One hectare (Clonbinane) 1972 65.4 x 49.2 cm 49.3 x 33.2 cm Donated through the Australian coloured etching & aquatint on paper Dendrobium superbiens 1879 Bolbophyllum ellisæ 1882 Government’s Cultural Gifts Program diptych 56 x 91 cm 63.5 x 49.6 cm 49 x 33 cm by David Freedman, 2015 Purchased with funds from the Phajus grandifolius 1893 Prasophyllum elatum & P.australe 1879 LJ Wilson Bequest, 2015 65 x 50.7 cm 49 x 32.5 cm Harold Freedman, Caleola ledgerii 1882 Caladenia reticulata & C.leptochila 1883 Victorian Railways, James Meek 62.7 x 49 cm 49 x 32.9 cm Government Printer, Melbourne Historical and Descriptive Atlas of the Dendrobium speciosum 1891 Pterostylis recurva & P.turfosa 1882 Coronation Commemoration Book - British Colonies in Continental and 64.1 x 49.9 cm 49.1 x 33.2 cm Have you signed? (1952) Insular Australia 1861 Dendrobium undulatum 1887 Eriochilus scaber & E.autumnalis 1884 colour lithograph on paper lithograph on paper on cloth on wood 65.7 x 49.2 cm 49.1 x 33.3 cm 101.8 x 63.4 cm 204 x 120 cm Dendrobium æmulum 1887 lithographs on paper some hand Donated through the Australian Purchased with funds from the Joe White Bequest, 2015 18 19 Ethleen Palmer Unknown artist, Melbourne Punch Various Artists, Samuel Holden, Robert Neill, T&W Boone Unknown artist/s Prowling 1936 The Unwelcome Welcome 1858 Phillip L Harris Joseph Paxton Wylie 1845 group of 3 works linocut on paper 11.8 x 18.7 cm 27.4 x 21 cm Aussie: The Australian Soldier’s Magazine, Eucalyptus macrocarpa 1849 steel engraving on paper 21.8 x 14 cm Einwohner auf van Diemensinsel Purchased with funds from the Lois An explanation (Blandowski) 1858 No.4 and No. 6 1918 engraving on paper, hand coloured Purchased with funds from the Joe circa 1820 Valerie Sheldon Bequest, 2015 27.5 x 21 cm 2 printed publications 25.8 x 17.8 cm with gum arabic 23.5 x 15.9 cm White Bequest, 2014 engraving on paper hand coloured The Patriarch of the Bedouins 1858 Purchased with funds from the Joe Purchased with funds from the Joe 19.7 x 12 cm George Thomson, The J.O’S.(S) 1858 White Bequest, 2014 White Bequest, 2014 Frederic Sherbol, Frauen aus Sudaustralien 1890 James J Blundell & Co 2 works 27.37 x 21.1 cm R Ackermann Schilde der Australier 1890 group of 2 works Wanted a governor 1855 Jacques Kuyper, group of 6 works engravings on paper 25.1 x 17.2 cm Wayne Viney Sketch in Bourke Street, Arrival of the January, The Monster Ballarat Nugget Louis Portman, Johannes Allart Man of New Holland 1824 Purchased with funds from the Joe group of 2 works Mails from the Diggings circa 1855 not dated Van Diemen Landers 1802 Native of New South Wales Dancing 1824 White Bequest, 2014 engraving on paper 14.3 x 22.8 cm Yan Yean Impurities 1858 Golden Spring I, Daylesford 1983 stipple engravings on paper, hand Musician of New Holland 1824 Sketch on Sandridge Pier circa 1855 3 works 28 x 21 cm monotype on paper 50.7 x 41.1 cm coloured 21.9 x 12.5 cm Woman of Van Diemen’s Land, 1824 Unknown artist, Jacques Arago engraving on paper 14.8 x 22.9 cm Hold on old quarter-deck-stick by her 1855 Golden Spring II, Daylesford 1983 Purchased with funds from the Hilton 4 works 13.7 x 8.7 cm group of 3 works Purchased with funds from the Joe 26.2 x 21.1 cm monotype on paper 51 x 41.7 cm White Bequest, 2015 Native of the East Coast of New Holland Naturel de la Nouvelle Hollande 1839 White Bequest, 2014 Wat Tyler, a la Chinoise 1859 Gift of the artist, 2015 1824 25.9 x 16.7 cm 27.4 x 21.1 cm Jacques Kuyper, 13.7 x 8.8 cm Le Serpent noir (Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud) Lesbia Thorpe The Wrong Man in the Wrong Place 1858 Louis Portman, Johannes Allart Man of Van Diemen’s Land 1824 1839 Diving Pelican 1960s 21.2 x 27.4 cm PRINTS — INTERNATIONAL Nieuw-Hollanders 1802 13.6 x 8.7 cm 16.7 x 25.9 cm linocut on tissue paper 69.8 x 31 cm Daylesford Institution 1865 stipple engravings on paper, hand aquatints on paper, hand coloured Duel (Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud) 1839 Purchased with funds from the Lois 27 x 20.9 cm Walter Fitch, coloured 23.2 x 13.9 cm Purchased with funds from the Joe 16.8 x 25.9 cm Valerie Sheldon Bequest, 2015 wood engravings on paper William Jackson Hooker, Vincent Brooks Purchased with funds from the Joe White Bequest, 2014 lithographs on paper Purchased with funds from the Hilton group of 2 works White Bequest, 2014 Purchased with funds from the Joe Unknown artist, Melbourne Punch White Bequest, 2015 Platycerium grande, Great Stag’s-horn Unknown artist, White Bequest, 2014 Ye Caledonian Corrobboree 1859 Fern 1859 Laplante, Louis van Houtte wood engraving on paper 27.4 x 21.1 cm Unknown artist, Gleichenia dicarpa, Br, Twin-fruited Giroux Doryanthes excelsa Corr 1845 Henry Winkles Gift of Patricia MacDonald, 2015 A Willmore, Sands & Kenny Ornithorhynque de la Nouvelle Hollande offset lithograph on paper, hand [Dance of the Australian Savages, & other Gleichenia 1859 Rev.Irving Hetherington’s Scotch Church circa 1840 coloured, gum arabic 24.7 x 33.7 cm images] 1851 lithographs on paper, hand coloured Unknown artist, Melbourne Punch and Manse, Melbourne circa 1862 engraving on paper hand coloured Purchased with funds from the Hilton steel engraving on paper 30.2 x 23.5 cm with gum arabic 31.2 x 25.1 cm Mr Punch’s Review of Everybody not dated engraving on paper hand coloured with gum arabic 10.2 x 13.7 cm White Bequest, 2014 Purchased with funds from the Joe 27 x 41.5 cm 20.5 x 27.5 cm Purchased with funds from the Hilton Purchased with funds from the Joe White Bequest, 2014 Dr Lang throws a boomerang, which Gift of Alison Inglis, 2015 White Bequest, 2015 White Bequest, 2014 Unknown artist recoils upon himself 1856 Portrait of Bennilong; a native of New 21.1 x 26.2 cm Various Artists, Godart, John Lewin Holland, who after experiencing for two PAPER ART Raising the Standard 1875 Andrew Garran Guillaume Severeyns Yango Mungo Ye Yango of Bathurst’s years the Luxuries of England, returned 27.6 x 21.3 cm Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886 Doryanthes palmeri 1897 Plains, New Holland 1824 to his own Country and resumed all his Carole Wilson Sweet Edinbro’, I smell thee noo 1877 parts 1, 7, 20 and 38 chromolithograph on paper engraving on paper, hand coloured savage Habits early 19th century Ferns on Everest 2008 27.6 x 20.9 cm 4 bound magazines, steel & wood 16.5 x 25.5 cm 21 x 12.9 cm engraving on paper 25.8 x 20.8 cm Wallerawang Jug 2008 wood engravings on paper engravings on paper 46.5 x 36 cm Purchased with funds from the Hilton Purchased with funds from the Hilton Purchased with funds from the Joe 2 paper cut-outs on paper 100 x 70 cm Gift of Alison Inglis, 2015 Purchased with funds from the Joe White Bequest, 2015 White Bequest, 2015 White Bequest, 2014 Gift of the artist, 2015 White Bequest, 2014

20 21 WATERCOLOURS — AUSTRALIAN dogs 1913 no.1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 watercolour & ink on paper 18.7 x 12.6 cm Volume 10 1945 Rick Amor Batouch 1912 no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Abstract (Gutting) 1968 watercolour & ink on paper 12 x 8.2 cm Volume 11 1945-46 gouache on paper 76 x 55.5 cm Purchased with funds from the Joe no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 Purchased with funds from the Colin White Bequest, 2015 Volume 12 1946 Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 no.1, 2, 3, 4 Unknown artist printed publications 18.8 x 13 cm Duncan Elphinstone Cooper group of 2 works Purchased with funds from the His Home Landscape circa 1840 Rosalie Waterhouse circa 1840 LJ Wilson Bequest, 2015 watercolour on paper 11.9 x 18.8 cm 20.1 x 16.3 cm Individual gifts from Peter Freund and Purchased with funds from the Colin George Waterhouse circa 1840 also Mrs Marie Nailon in memory of Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 19.9 x 16 cm her father Royden James Corrie Private watercolour on paper with gum arabic, VX45410 James Oldham on cardboard, Dungan circa 1890 Gift of the Estate of Beverley Brown, Various Artists, watercolour on paper 37.5 x 50.1 cm 2015 Bulletin Gift of Ian Oldham, 2014 The Lone Hand 1912 printed publication 24.1 x 16.3 cm John Pastoriza-Piñol BOOKS Purchased with funds from the Joe group of 3 works White Bequest, 2015 Flindersia australis 2012 Various Artists, watercolour on paper 29.3 x 22.8 Australian Army Education Service Will Dyson, Hakea laurina 2012 SALT magazine Stanley Paul & Co watercolour on paper 45.1 x 31.8 cm Volume 1 1941 Kultur Cartoons 1915 Konrad — Michelia doltsopa, Michelia no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 printed publication 36.5 x 27 cm pods 2014 Volume 2 1942 Purchased, 2015 watercolour on deer vellum 12.5 x 12 cm no.2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 see image left Volume 3 1942 Frederick Bailey, Gift of the artist, 2015 no.2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Karl Staiger Volume 4 1942 Native Grasses of Queensland circa 1875 Ellis Rowan no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13 bound publication 22.8 x 15.5 x 0.4 cm Bull Banksia circa 1890 Volume 5 1942-43 Purchased with funds from the Joe watercolour & gouache on paper no.1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 White Bequest, 2015 74 x 54 cm Volume 6 1943 Purchased with funds from the Lois no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Phil May, Valerie Sheldon Bequest, 2015 Volume 7 1943-1944 Bulletin no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Phil May in Australia 1904 Reginald Ward Sturgess Volume 8 1944 printed publication 37.4 x 25 cm group of 2 works no.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Purchased with funds from public Two long-legged long-jawed iron gray Volume 9 1944-45 donation, 2015 22 23 Cecil Hartt, E is for elephant 2007 Brian Keyte John Ferres, Australian Trading & Agencies Co Ltd artist’s book and neon 30 x 46 x 6 cm Spheroid bowls 2014 Government Printer, Melbourne, Humorosities 1917 Tree form & Hen 2007 glazed ceramic, chun & temoku glazes, Ludwig Becker printed publication 28.5 x 22.4 cm neon 7-11 cm, diam:9.5-15 cm Report of the Select Committee of the Purchased with funds from the Joe Donated through the Australian Purchased, 2015 Legislative Council of The Aborigines; White Bequest, 2014 Government’s Cultural Gifts Program together with the proceedings of by Mr William Nuttall and Annette Maria Kuczynska committee, minutes of evidence and Alan Mcculloch Reeves, 2015 Sphinx not dated appendices 1859 So this was the spot: being several simple glazed ceramic 14.8 x 26.5 x 14.5 cm printed publication 31.5 x 20.5 cm centenary reflections reflected in words Inge King Donated through the Australian Purchased with funds from the Joe and pictures1934 group of 2 works Government’s Cultural Gifts Program White Bequest, 2014 printed publication 27.5 x 20.6 cm Open stage 1992 by Guy and Kim Abrahams, 2014 Purchased with funds from public polychrome steel 59 x 57.5 x 35 cm Harold Freedman donation, 2014 Forest 1996 Fiona Murphy Scrapbook of newspaper clippings bronze 44 x 20 x 18.5 cm group of 2 works not dated Donated through the Australian Vase not dated bound book 50 x 25 x 15 cm SCULPTURE Government’s Cultural Gifts Program glazed ceramic 31.5, diam:12.5 cm Donated through the Australian by Inge King AM, 2015 Concave Black, 2002 Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Peter Blizzard glazed ceramic 63 x 17 x 12.5 cm by David Freedman, 2015 Ponte timeless coast circa 1989 Donated through the Australian steel, wood &stone CERAMICS — AUSTRALIAN Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Petermann’s Geographische 331.5 x 197.5 x 170 cm by Guy and Kim Abrahams, 2014 Mittheilungen Donated through the Australian Ralph Eberlein Orographische Karte der Provinz Victoria Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Vase 2004 zur Übersicht der Höhenmessungen 1871 by Robert and Emma House, 2014 glazed ceramic 32.5, diam:14.5 cm COSTUMES lithograph on paper 27.1 x 45.8 cm Donated through the Australian Purchased with funds from the Joe Euan Heng Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Thomas Harrison White Bequest, 2014 group of 3 works by Guy and Kim Abrahams, 2014 Hat - beret not dated Dove descending 2007 velvet, grosgrain ribbon, metal & elastic Various Artists 42 x 45 cm Bern Emmerichs Gift of Jill Fowler and Andrew Baird Army magazine, 2 copies 1943 & 1944 Snail (Momento) 2007 Mermaid and Merman plates 1991 in memory of their mother Joy Baird, printed publications, 27.5 x 20 cm 29 x 50 cm glazed ceramic 3.2 cm, diam:24.2 cm 2014 Purchased with funds from the Elephant 2007 Donated through the Australian LJ Wilson Bequest, 2015 120 x 99 cm Government’s Cultural Gifts Program neon by Guy and Kim Abrahams, 2014 ARCHIVES Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program Ray Hearn M Chatelain by Mr LG Cox AO, 2015 14 Natural Prints 1977 Will Dyson see image right stoneware &wood 46 x 147.4 cm L’Europe anti-Prussienne, No.4 1915 Gift of the artist, 2015 printed publication 32.8 x 25 cm Euan Heng Purchased, 2015 group of 2 works 24 25 Donations, Gifts and Bequests

Giving to an art gallery is not just do not have to go towards the The Gallery would like to thank the an act of generosity, it is a powerful acquisition of works of art, but can following sponsors for their support expression of your own personality, include conservation work, support during 2014–15 recognisable for generations to come. of publications or establishing community programs. The variety of • City of Ballarat The generosity of individual donors ways in which your contribution can has the power to transform art have a lasting impact is almost endless. • Creative Victoria institutions, bringing a lasting benefit • Gandel Philanthropy to their communities and creating a Gifts to the Gallery can be made • The Art Gallery of Ballarat lasting memorial to the giver. through the Art Gallery of Ballarat Foundation, a Charitable Fund whose Foundation Over the years, the Art Gallery of role is to assist the Gallery with specific • The Art Gallery of Ballarat Adopt Ballarat has benefitted from the projects or acquisitions. Association generosity of members of the The Art Gallery of Ballarat is a Not for • Department of Education and community and many of the Gallery’s Profit Company Limited by Guarantee Early Childhood Development an Artwork most famous artworks have been which has Charitable Institution status acquired as the result of donations, • Catholic Education Office and is endorsed by the Australian gifts and bequests. Hans Heysen’s The Ballarat Taxation Office as a Deductible Gift This program gives individuals or Silver donations Other donations three gums, Tom Roberts’ A summer Recipient (DGR). • Hilton White Estate groups the opportunity to contribute $5,000 up to $25,000 • Ballarat National Theatre Inc morning tiff and E Phillips Fox’s A love towards the conservation treatment • Joe White Bequest • The Ballarat Courier story were acquired in this way in the For more information, or to arrange an and maintenance of artworks in the • Heather Boyd past, while more recent examples are appointment with the Gallery Director, • Colin Hicks Caldwell Bequest Art Gallery of Ballarat Collection. • The Isobella Foundation Rick Amor’s Study for the dry season, contact the Art Gallery of Ballarat • Adopt-an-Artwork Donors • Mrs Ridsdale in memory of her Brett Whiteley’s Portrait of Richard Business Support Officer on The Gallery would like to thank the husband, Leonard Darrell Ridsdale Neville and Jeffrey Smart’s The listeners. 5320 5858 or [email protected] • And forty-eight donations with following donors for their support Association Membership renewals, during 2014–15 • Michael Stubbs above: detail of grime being cleaned off Christabel Cockerell’s Portrait of a lady Donations, gifts or bequests from $5 to $200 totalling $1,720. 26 27 Exhibitions 2014 - 2015

For Auld Lang Syne: Images of Scottish University of Melbourne Amanda Ahmed, Mali Moir, John Australians at War 1914 – 1945 Australia from First Fleet to Federation 25 October – 18 January Pastoriza-Piñol, Sandra Severgnini: An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition Helen Macpherson Smith Trust and Vignettes 18 April – 21 June to 27 July Minnie Williamson galleries An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition Mars Gallery Ian Potter Foundation, Mars, Selkirk 31 January – 15 March Family and Timken galleries Eureka 160: Battle Drawn Timken Gallery University of Ballarat Alumni: An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition Alumination Art and Australia Collection 2003–2013 15 November – 11 January Next Gen 2015: VCE Art & Design Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local A Newcastle Art Gallery and Art & Gordon Victor King Gallery Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local artists Australia travelling exhibition artists 25 April - 31 May 16 August – 28 September Director’s Cut: Works by members of the 7 February – 22 March Timken Gallery Ian Potter Foundation Gallery Ballarat Society of Artists Ian Potter Foundation Gallery Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local Ash Coates: Mycolinguistics Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2014 artists Emma Stoneman and Antonietta Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local Jointly presented by Creative Victoria 13 December – 18 January Covino-Beehre: Structures and Facades artists and the Art Gallery of Ballart Mars Gallery Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local 6 June – 19 July 23 August – 5 October artists Selkirk Family Gallery Mars and Timken galleries 46th Ballarat National Photographic 14 March – 12 April T Exhibition Mars Gallery he Inimitable Mr Meek Stuart Campbell: The essence of you Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local see detail left An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition 30 August – 12 October artists 13 June - 9 August Minnie Williamson Gallery 13 December – 18 January Pat and Mark Shannon: Sea, Sky and Timken Gallery Timken Gallery the Hills Behind EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local Australia’s Robinson Crusoe: the fabulous World Sally Miller: Zooanthropomorphism artists tale of Louis de Rougemont An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition Art Gallery of Ballarat: supporting local 21 March – 19 April An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition 18 October – 26 January artists Timken Gallery 13 June – 9 August Ian Potter Foundation Gallery 17 January – 15 March Gordon Victor King Gallery Gordon Victor King Gallery GNAP Guirguis New Art Prize 2015 Imhoff: A life of grain & pixels Jointly presented by Federation Recent Acquisitions An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition Ron Millar: Homage to Baudelaire University and the Art Gallery of Ballart An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition 11 October – 7 December An Art Gallery of Ballarat exhibition 11 April – 31 May 20 June – 26 July Mars and Timken galleries 24 January – 8 March Ian Potter Foundation, Selkirk Family, Ian Potter Foundation Gallery Mars Gallery Gordon Victor King, Helen Macpherson Radicals, slayers and villians Smith Trust and Minnie Williamson Prints from the Baillieu Library galleries 28 29 PUBLIC PROGRAMS Sasha Grishin: The Novgorodian Icon Nick Tsiavos and Adam Simmons: EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World Wednesday 12 November Icons and Portraits Members’ Preview Thursday 13 November Art Gallery of Ballarat Viewing the exhibition was a special event, with dramatic Friday 17 October Diane Micich, Ballarat icon artist 18 October 2014 – 26 January 2015 lighting and a soundscape incorporating traditional Wednesday 19 November Greek Choir chanting, bells and other sounds of an Orthodox service, Morning Art Insight: Saturday 15 November This exhibition of over sixty icons, many of them drawn recreating the original setting of the works. There was a Sir Richard Temple Bt Dr Jennifer Jones-O'Neill from an extraordinary Australian private collection, as calendar of talks, concerts and family activity days. Friday 17 October Wednesday 12 November well as significant loans from the National Gallery of EDUCATION PROGRAMS Victoria, the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology in A creative and engaging education program was EIKON Family Day Sophie Matthieson, Curator of Queensland and the Temple Gallery in London. developed in conjunction with the exhibition.An Sunday 25 October International Art NGV Teachers's Professional Development Education Trail through the exhibition was provided for Cretan icons in EIKON, the role of Crete Thursday 23 October Most of the icons in the exhibition originate from Greece schools and family visitors with fun “Pilgram’s Facts”. Greek Feast under Venetian rule in the Byzantine and Russia, with examples from other parts of the eastern at Ballaarat Mechanics Institute era For students throughout the Mediterranean. They range in time from the twelfth to the EIKON was accompanied by a lavishly illustrated Saturday 15 November Wednesday 26 November exhibition: early nineteenth centuries. catalogue, as well as specially produced Christmas cards Reflecting Critically tours and other merchandise. Byzantine Choir of David the Story-telling with Anne E Stewart The exhibition aimed to explain the origin of the icon, Psalmist: The Heart of Byzantine Chant CONCERT SERIES: Paint-your-own-Icon workshops exploring their meaning to the communities who create The Gallery’s dedicated Guides offered special exhibition Saturday 15 November and venerate them, and to give visitors insights into tour, daily at 11.30am from Wednesdays to Sundays. VOX: Windows on Heaven — Russian their extraordinary power to sustain and shape belief in Orthodox Choral Masterpieces different times and contexts. Visitation to the exhibition was 16,449. TWILIGHT TALKS: Saturday 18 October Gordon Morrison: Material and Damask and Singers of the Black Immaterial Book: Prayers of Angelic Praise Wednesday 22 October Saturday 25 October

30 31 CAPTURING FLORA: Touring exhibitions A PASSION FOR THE EXOTICK Cairns Regional Art Gallery scientific team included the naturalist WORKS ON LOAN: Cairns, Queensland Joseph Banks and the young artist 1 August – 12 October 2014 Sydney Parkinson. Their work – some One hundred and twenty-nine of it undertaken in coastal northern botanical works from the Art Gallery of This major exhibition examined the Queensland – is the starting point for Ballarat Collection. way in which Australia’s amazing Capturing Flora: A Passion for the Exotick. and diverse flora has been recorded, VISITATION 25,526 interpreted and popularized by Housed in a landmark heritage botanical artists, in particular the new building the Cairns Regional Gallery Opposite: Guillaume Severeyns lithographer, ‘exotick’ plants in Britain and Europe. is Far North Queensland’s premier Belgium, after Ellis Rowan artist, Australia, b.1848, d.1922 from The garden. An illustrated destination for exhibitions featuring weekly journal of horticulture in all its branches When James Cook’s ship the historical and contemporary art Blandfordia flammea var. Princeps, B.nobilis & Endeavour sailed up the eastern by leading regional, national and B.marginata (detail) 1895, chromolithograph coast of Australia in 1770, Cook’s international artists. on paper. Purchased with funds from the Hilton White Bequest, 2011. Below: installation view .

32 33 Outward Loans

Dorrit Black Inclusion in display The Great War – A Graphic Legacy Geoffrey Bartlett: 1977-2015 Art Gallery of South Australia, Museum of Australian Democracy Geelong Gallery, June-September 2014 McClelland Art Gallery and Sculpture June-September 2014 at Eureka, March –September 2014 William Lionel Wyllie, The Ypres Salient, Park, February –May 2015 Dorrit Black, Still life with grapes, 1928 Unknown - Australia, Fragment of the 1916 Geoff Bartlett, Untitled, 1976 Flag of the Southern Cross, 1854 Page.Print.Post: 50 Years of Artists May 2015-February 2017 Colour Music Ash Keating: Selected Works 2005-2015 Books Unknown maker, Liquor bottle, not Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National Benalla Art Gallery, May-June 2015 Post Office Gallery, Federation dated University, August-September 2014 Ash Keating, EurEco, 2009 University, July–August 2014 Frank Hinder, Polaroid, c.1965 Robert Jacks, Family of Forms, a book of Moya Dyring: An Australian Salon in Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski, The Sun - After 65 – The Legacy of Pop original serigraphs by Robert Jacks, 1999 Paris Polychromatic Image, c1967 Latrobe Regional Gallery, Lyre Bird Press, Kate Maconochie, Heide Museum of Modern Art, May-July 2015 The Pink Spotted Leopard who lost her October 2014-March 2015 Instinct Stan Ostoja-Kotkoski, Dodecahedron 2, spots, 1996 Mary Evatt, Portrait of Moya Dyring (in a Australian Centre for Contemporary 1983 Jenny Zimmer, On the desk, 1996 French town), 1938 Art, December 2014-March 2015 Basil Col Jordan, Daedalus Series No. 1, Bradley, Grouse shooting - Pointer and 1960-68 Delinquent Angel: John Perceval’s The Three O’s: Orban, Olsen and Setter at work, 1890 Angels Ogburn Basil Bradley, Grouse hunting in the Long term loans to Department of Shepparton Art Museum, Orange Regional Gallery & tour, Highlands – Waiting, 1890 Premier & Cabinet August – November 2014 November 2013-August 2014 William Strutt, Eaglehawk, c1860 June 2015-November 2016 John Perceval, Angel with lute, 1959 John Olsen, Bird in landscape, 1959 Unknown artist, [Dog retreiving game], Deborah Klein, Vorticist 2, 2004 Desiderius Orban, Still life, 1944 not dated Kerrie Leishman, Terra Cumulus, 2011 reciprocal loan related to For Auld Lang Syne Inge King: Constellation Country & Western: landscape re- Savage Club, April-July 2014 National Gallery of Victoria, imagined Norman Lindsay, Who Conquers Fear, May-August 2014 Perc Tucker Regional Gallery & tour, 1945 Inge King, Double boulder, 1968 July 2014-March 2017 Grahame King, Medieval motifs, 1952 Imants Tillers, Model of Reality, 1989 Robert Jacks Retrospective Grahame King, The shearer, 1946 National Gallery of Victoria, Aleks Danko: My Fellow Aus-tra-aliens October-February 2015 New era: Second Time Lucky Museum of Contemporary Art & tour, Robert Jacks, Compelling Vesture No.1, Koorie Heritage Trust, Sydney, July 2015-March 2016 1965 May –July 2014 Aleks Danko, Bill Posters will be see detail left Pitcha Makin Fellas, We know where you prosecuted, 1971 Robert Jacks, Untitled (Totem), 1965 live, 2013 Aleks Danko, Block bag, 1970 34 35 Publications & Merchandise

Exhibition invitations: Hills Behind What’s On brochures: Art and Australia Collection 2003 – 2013 double-sided DL Spring 2014, 32-page, A5 4–page DL Summer 2014, 24-page, A5 GNAP Guirguis New Art Prize 2015 Autumn 2015, 36-page, A5 Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2014 double-sided large postcard Winter 2015, 36-page, A5

Cat.21 6–page large postcard Triptych with Deesis and four patron saints Australians at War 1914 – 1945 Other publications:

Triptych with Deesis Stuart Campbell: The essence of you double-sided large postcard EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian and four patron saints blessing with his right. Above Christ are images in This charming portable triptych exemplifies Greece, probably Ionian red of two of the six winged Seraphim, the highest Islands circa 1700 work produced at an artisanal level in places like order of the angels, who the Old Testament tells were egg tempera, gold leaf double-sided DL World flyer double-sided DL the Southern Peloponnese or the Ionian Islands in so bright that they used their wings to shield their and gesso on wood around 1700. It was probably commissioned for a hands, feet and faces. 32.0 x 32.6 cm (open) moderately wealthy farmer or townsman for use 32.0 x 16.8 cm (closed) The lower register presents saints particular Private collection, Sydney University of Ballarat Alumni: Eureka 160 Calendar of Events inside the home, or perhaps in a private chapel. The to the family of the person who commissioned the work makes no claims to being ‘high art’, but is well work: Michael the Archangel in his guise as leader crafted with some costly materials, such as gold of the Heavenly Host; the Holy Bishops of the First leaf. Although the execution of the sacred portraits Nicene Council, Nicholas and Athanasius, champion Imhoff: A life of grain & pixels Alumination double-sided A3 folded to DL is somewhat crude, the iconography itself is fully of the doctrine of the Trinity; and finally on the right, grounded in a tradition that reaches back to the Stylianos, a wonder-working hermit of sixth century courtly art of late Byzantium. Paphlagonia in Asia Minor, who was highly regarded The upper register of the three panels represents as a patron of children, both born and unborn. , or Intercession, with the double-sided DL double-sided large postcard Outside the frame: poems from the Art the core image of Deesis Saint Stylianos is one of a relatively small number of Mother of God and John the Forerunner in postures Orthodox saints who is usually shown with an external of supplication, directing their attention to a half- ‘attribute’ by which he can be quickly recognised. 38In GM his Gallery of Ballarat book launch length figure of Christ the Ruler of All, who holds case, it is an image of a baby in swaddling clothes. 85 the Gospels in his left hand and makes a gesture of ANGELS, PROPHETS AND SAINTS Director’s Cut: Works by members of the Ash Coates: Mycolinguistics double-sided DL EIKŌN Ballarat Society of Artists double-sided DL Percy and the Blue-tailed butterfly book 84 double-sided DL launch double-sided DL The Inimitable Mr Meek Art Gallery of Ballarat Annual Report 46th Ballarat National Photographic double-sided large postcard 2013-14 Exhibition double-sided DL 68-page 205 x 205mm ISSN: 0726-5530 Exhibition catalogues: Sally Miller: Zooanthropomorphism Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2014 Membership invitations and EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian World double-sided DL 60-page, 225 x 180mm publications: Catalogue: 220-page, 210 x 268mm ISBN: 9780992481407 ISBN: 978-0-9872345-9-9 (paperback) Association Ceilidh invitation (hardback). Ron Millar: Homage to Baudelaire double-sided DL Invitations: Exclusive Opening 6–page large postcard, double-sided DL Sally Miller: Zooanthropomorphism Association 130th Anniversary Members Preview double-sided DL. 6-page roll fold, 210 x 148mm celebration invitation Merchandise: Vignettes: Amanda Ahmed, Mali Moir, Association Ceilidh invitation 2015 Calendar, fifteen months, 580 x 280mm, spiral header John Pastoriza-Piñol, Sandra Severgnini Ron Millar: Homage to Baudelaire double-sided DL magnets, six designs, 85 x 60mm double-sided DL 6-page roll fold, 210 x 148mm greeting cards, twelve designs, 170 x 120mm Ballarat Fine Art Public Gallery Next Gen 2015: VCE Art & Design Vignettes: Amanda Ahmed, Mali Moir, Association Annual Report of the 130th double-sided DL John Pastoriza-Piñol, Sandra Severgnini year 2013-2014 2015 Calendar 52-page, 205 x 205mm 36-page 205 x 205mm ISSN 0726-5530 Emma Stoneman and Antonietta ISBN: 978-0-9924814-2-1 (paperback)

Monday Tuesday Covino-Beehre: Structures and Facades association magazine; 205 x 205mm Adoration of the Magi Wednesday Thursday Russia 17th century egg tempera, gold leaf and 1 Friday gesso on linen over wood 31.5 x 26.6 cm 2 Saturday Private collection, Sydney 6 Easter Monday (Western) public holiday 3 Good Friday (Western) Sunday double-sided DL NextGen 2015: VCE Art and Design Spring 28-page; Summer 24-page with 7 public holiday In this image the Wise Men of the East are 4 presenting their offerings to the Christ 8 5 Orthodox Palm Sunday Child, Mary and Joseph who are sitting in 9 - The Entry of Christ the ruins of a building. All the costumes 13 into Jerusalem are of Western design, showing that this 10 Orthodox Great 14 and Holy Friday 44-page, 190 x 148mm colour cover; Autumn 32-page, full- icon is based on Catholic rather than 11 Orthodox Christian models. 15 12 16 Orthodox Holy Pascha 20 17 21 Pat and Mark Shannon: Sea, Sky and the ISBN: 978-0-9924814-4-5 (paperback) colour; Winter 36-page, full-colour. 18 22 19 23 27 24 28 25 ANZAC Day 29 public holiday Fridge Magnet 26 30 Saint George and the Dragon (detail) 36 Crete, circa 1500 egg tempera, gold leaf and gesso on wood 27 x 21.3 cm. Private collection, Sydney 37 April Education Report

The gallery education programs continue to attract students SPECIAL PROGRAMS Pleasant Street Primary School, Lake Springbank Donald High School from across the state and beyond. Over the past twelve VCE Studio Arts Day: The Making of an Wendouree St Patrick’s Primary School, Gordon Hopetoun P–12 College months a range of special programs were developed to Exhibition St Alipius Primary School, Ballarat East Woori Yallock Primary School Portland Secondary College complement different exhibitions as well as events such as VCE Studio Arts Day: About GNAP St Columba’s Primary School, Soldiers METROPOLITAN Staughton College, Melton Reconciliation Week and Children’s Bookweek. Our most Book Week with Anne E Stewart Hill Ascot Vale Primary School St Brigid’s College, Horsham popular programs continue to be created in partnership Eureka Soundscape St Emmaus Catholic Primary School, Emerald Primary School METROPOLITAN with schools and are designed to support specific Next Gen 2015 Exhibition Mount Clear Hawkesdale P – 12 College Diamond Valley College curriculum needs of the school. That said the history of Mindshop program, Ballarat Secondary St James Parish School, Sebastopol Holy Trinity Primary School, Eltham Epping Secondary College Ballarat and gold continues to be in demand, with our Hall School St Patrick’s Primary School Drummond North Kurunjang Secondary College, Melton of debate and ST Hill programs attracting schools from Colour and Shape for pre schoolers with Street Kilvington Grammar School, Ormond Mentone Grammar Adelaide to Sydney and schools in between. It has become Kelly Maddaford St Thomas More Primary School, Mentone Girls’ Grammar School St Kevin’s College, Toorak a significant part in many schools curriculum. Federation Univeristy Science Camp Alfredton Mount Dandenong Primary School Taylors Lake Secondary College Eikōn exibition Teacher Professional REGIONAL Regency Park Primary School, Wantirna University High School, Parkville Also growing in popularity is the VCE Studio Arts Making of Development Allansford & District Primary School Springvale Park Special Developmental an Exhibition day which is designed to complement the Eikōn exibition Teacher viewing Breamar College, Woodend School TERTIARY EDUCATION studio arts study design. This program gives the students Briagolong Primary School St Jude the Apostle Primary School, Royal Melbourne Institue of an insight into the workings of the gallery and it is valued Creswick Primary School Scoresby Technology because students have the opportunity to see and hear PRE SCHOOL Cowes Primary School Yarra Valley Grammar Gordon Institute of TAFE, Geelong from the gallery staff themselves. It is wonderful to see this Alfredton Pre-School East Loddon P–12 College Junior Federation University, Ballarat partnership with the gallery and school community. Ballarat Clarendon College Early School SECONDARY SCHOOLS Australian Catholic University, Ballarat Learning Centre Haddon Primary School LOCAL The number of students who come to take part in the Ballarat Grammar Early Learning Centre Hamilton North Primary School Ballarat Clarendon College INTERSTATE special programs run at the gallery as well as using the Buninyong Pre-School Jamieson Primary School Ballarat and Queen’s Anglican Ascham School, Edgecliff NSW permanent collection as a resource continues to grow. As an Jubilee Kindergarten Merrijig Primary School Grammar School Danebank Anglican School for Girls, example of the type of tours and workshops run, we had the Skipton Kindergarten Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School, Ballarat High School Hurstville NSW wonderful Eikōn exhibition attracting students from all levels Wendouree Preschool Kyneton Ballarat Secondary College St John’s Primary School, Dubbo NSW and also included special sessions for teachers with some York Street Kindergarten Toolern Vale & District Primary School Damascus College St Mary’s Catholic Primary School, schools using it as staff meeting, gaining greater insight Sacred Heart Primary School, Loreto College Corowa NSW under the guidance and expertise of Gordon Morrison. PRIMARY SCHOOLS Yarrawonga Mount Clear College St Michael’s Primary School, Deniliquin Students had the opportunity to view the exhibition, study LOCAL Skipton Primary School Phoenix P12 Community College NSW the materials and technique used and then create their Black Hill Primary School St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School, St Patrick’s College PLC Sydney, Croydon NSW own Icon painting, painted on prepared wooden panels. Dana Street Primary School Ballan Yuille Park P–8 Community College Birdwood High School, SA These works then created a mini exhibition back at the Lumen Christi Primary School, St Brendan’s Primary School, REGIONAL Prescott Northern Primary School, Para participating schools. Delacombe Dunnstown Camperdown College Vista SA Our Lady Help of Christian’s Primary St Mary’s Primary School, Clarkes Hill Catholic Regional College Sydenham Naracoorte Primary School, SA School, Wendouree St Michael’s Primary School, Colac Secondary College Loxton High School, SA 38 39 Public Programs

CONCERTS FREE SUNDAY CONCERTS Oja Prelovsek Sunday 2 November Ballarat Arts Foundation Concert Piano for Pleasure Saturday 12 July Sunday 20 July Students of Rosario Martin Sunday 2 November Seraphim Trio: Fairy Tales Last Sunday of July Concert Wednesday 6 August Scottish - multiple? Jason White and Isabel Unwin: Sunday 27 July Piano for Pleasure Celebrating Chopin Sunday 16 November Saturday 9 August Festival of Slow Music: Tasting Plate Saturday 30 August Last Sunday of November Concert Australian String Quartet: St Augustines, Creswick: Quartets at Sunset Last Sunday of August Concert The Joy of Christmas Sunday 26 October Ballarat High School Sunday 30 November Sunday 31 August Seraphim Trio: Beethoven Trios Damask and Singers of the Black Thursday 12 March Peter Blizzard Memorial Concert Books: Christmas Concert Sunday 31 August Saturday 6 December Grigoryan Brothers: This Time Saturday 18 April Last Sunday of September Concert St Cecilia Singers: A Christmas Invitation Ballarat Clarendon College Sunday 7 December Nick Parnell with Julie Sargent: Sunday 28 September Vibes Virtuoso Ballarat Grammar Recital Friday 15 May Con for Kabul Tuesday 9 December Saturday 11 October Toot Sweet, Mon Amour VOX: O magnum mysterium Saturday 30 May Piano for Pleasure Friday 12 December see image left Sunday 19 October Kate Hill piano students Matthew Fagan: Last Sunday of October Concert Sunday 21 December Virtuoso — A Tribute to my Ancestors Music from Around the World Saturday 13 June Sunday 26 October Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Wednesday 14 and Friday 16 January Market Lane Saturday 1 November Last Sunday of February Concert Sunday 22 February 40 41 Piano for Pleasure Penny Byrne Gordon Morrison: Barry Breen Children’s Week at the Gallery Ron Millar: Homage to Baudelaire Sunday 8 March Wednesday 6 August An overview of 2016–2017 Book Launch: Outside the Frame: Poems Make your own Tyger Saturday 7 February Wednesday 8 April written in the Art Gallery of Ballarat Wednesday 23 October Last Sunday of March Concert: Moya McKenna Saturday 13 September Make your own 3D object or Triptych Antonietta Covineo-Beehre and Emma The Anita Hoekstra Quintet Wednesday 13 August Ted Gott, Senior Curator, NGV: Saturday 25 October Stoneman: Structures and Facades Sunday 29 March Demonising the enemy Association 130th Celebration Sunday 15 March Paul Croft Wednesday 22 April Wednesday 15 October Last Sunday in April: Hana Zreikat Wednesday 20 August OPENINGS Pat and Mark Shannon: Sea, Sky and the Sunday 26 April FEDERATION UNIVERSITY Members only: Behind the Scenes tour Hills Behind Bernard Catrice: Mirka Mora ARTS ACADEMY SERIES Monday 13 October Art & Australia 2002–2012 Saturday 21 March Con for Kabul Wednesday 27 August 6, 13, 20 & 27 May: GNAP: Guirguis Saturday 16 August Saturday 2 May New Art Prize artists Lorraine McGuigan: Poetry Launch Guirguis New Art Prize 2015 Art & Australia Collection 2003–2013 Saturday 13 December Victorian Indigenous Art Awards Friday 10 April Last Sunday in May: Wednesday 10 September GALLERY SERIES Saturday 23 August Our Anzacs and their Legacy The School of Life: Night of Better University of Ballarat Alumni: Sunday 31 May Jenny Crompton Tarli Glover Conversations Stuart Campbell: The essence of you Alumination Wednesday 24 September Wednesday 10 June Thursday 11 June Saturday 30 August Friday 24 April Piano for Pleasure Sunday 14 June Robert Imhoff Joan Luxemburg: James Meek Spoken word Imhoff: A life of grain & pixels Australians at War morning tea Wednesday 8 October Wednesday 24 June Let’s Talk Poetry with Barry Breen Saturday 11 October Thursday 7 May VOX: Battlecrys and Prayers Tuesdays 8 July, 12 August, 9 Saturday 27 June Sir Richard Temple Bt September, 14 October, 11 November, EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Christian Ash Coates: Mycolinguistics Wednesday 17 October BALLARAT HERITAGE WEEKEND 9 December, 9 February, 10 March, 14 World Friday 5 June Last Sunday of June Concert Tours of the Gallery Collection April, 12 May VIP Opening: Thursday 16 October Sunday 28 June Gordon Morrison Australia at War Guided Tours Association Opening: Friday 17 October Tarli Glover: Paper Scape Wednesday 25 October Radio Play Live! Ballarat National Theatre at the Gallery Friday 12 June Poems of WW2 More Party Pieces Ballarat Camera Club: National ART INSIGHTS - Lunchtime Talks Felicity St John Moore: Danila Vassilieff Ginger Mick’s War Sunday 17 August Photographic Exhibition The inimitable Mr Meek Wednesday 16 November Music of the Wars Scenes from the Classics Sunday 14 December Sunday 14 June GALLERY SERIES Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May Sunday 12 October Tony Ellwood, Director, NGV Across the Wide Atlantic Sally Miller: Zooanthropomorophism Victorian Indigenous Art Awards 2015 Richard Broome Greg Binns Memorial Lecture Sunday 9 November Friday 16 January Friday 26 June Wednesday 9 July Wednesday 25 February OTHER PUBLIC PROGRAMS Two Handers Sunday 1 March (morning tea talk) Radio Play Live! Amanda Ahmed, Mali Moir, John Michael Nichols: Next Gen 2016 Sautrday 5 July Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May Pastoriza-Piñol, Sandra Severgnini: Peter Freund: The Scots in Ballarat Wednesday 11 March Dawn Whitehead Vignettes Wednesday 9 July book launch Saturday 31 January Antonietta Covino-Beehre and Valda Catrice Emma Stoneman Lucy Brisbane: Percy and the blue-tailed Next Gen 2015 Wednesday 16 July Wednesday 25 March butterflybook launch Friday 6 February Sunday 31 August

42 43 FOR AULD LANG SYNE An Afternoon with Scots of the Wednesday 24 September Australians at War 1914 – 1945 and the Western Front The Legacy of War Western District (also Lunchtime Talk) Twilight Talks Wednesday 6 May Wednesday 10 June Twilight Talks Sunday 13 July Josh Muir and ABC Open Gordon Morrison: Sheridan Palmer: Melissa Watts: Female Cartographers of WW2 Alison Inglis Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, Scottish Wednesday 1 October Iconography of The Digger Ballarat sculptor Ken Palmer Wednesday 17 June Wednesday 2 July musician Wednesday 8 April Wednesday 13 May Sunday 27 July Clare Gervasoni: Anne Beggs Sunter: Prof Keir Reeves: Peter Freund: Scottish Celebrations EIKŌN: Icons of the Orthodox Will Dyson and the Ballarat Tunnellers The cockies from Bungaree and the Easter Walking the heritage battlefields of Wednesday 9 July Christian World Anzac — artistic representations of Victorian Indigenous Art Awards Wednesday 15 April Rebellion Wednesday 20 May Gallipoli Concerts and events Wednesday 24 June — see page 31 Ted Gott, Senior Curator, NGV: Twilight Talks Demonising the enemy Julie McLaren: Icons Trio: Laverocks Tweedlin' - Scots Wednesday 22 April Graphic artist and muralist Harold Haiku Megan Cope Eureka 160 at the Gallery see image above Freedman Ballarat International Foto Biennale Sunday 6 July Wednesday 10 September Wednesday 27 May Eureka Hall of Debate Frank Golding: BIFB Workshops: Scotch Malt Whisky Tasting Deanne Gilson Monday 1, Wednesday 3 – Friday 5 Making men out of boys Peter Freund: Designing and installing exhibitions Friday 11 July Wednesday 17 September December Wednesday 29 April Three Ballarat artists of WW2 Saturday 18 April see image above Wednesday 3 June Jenny Crompton, The Sounds of Eureka Caroline Winter: Weston Bate and Danny Spooner: 2014 Deadly Award winner Tuesday 2 December War memorials — Perceptions in Ballarat Michael Grant: 44 45 SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM Dynamic Drawing skills with Ewen Ross Tuesday 23 September Secret kid’s business with Chris Ellis Monday 30 March, Wednesday 1 April Exploring with Clay with Josh Pike Tuesday 8 July Wednesday 1 October Wednesdays, 15 October – Create A Plaque with Melinda Muscat Spring Mystery Box with Pauline Fabergé Eggs with Melinda Muscat 3 December Tuesday 1 July Scottish Portraits with Carla Maxwell O’Shannessy-Dowling Make your own Mokuhanga (Wood Tuesday 31 March Wednesday 9 July Wednesday 24 September Block Print) with Terry Mckenna Shelter with Mark Maxwell Realistic Drawing with Shane Boland Thursday 2 and Friday 3 October Willow Pattern Plate with Chris Ellis Tuesdays 28 April – 16 June Wednesday 2 July Celtic Creatures with Pauline Faces and Shapes with Kellie Maddaford Icon-painting with Melinda Muscat Thursday 2 April O’Shannesy-Dowling and Finola Kennedy Monday 12 January Realistic Drawing with Shane Boland Make your own Mokuhanga (woodblock Thursday 10 July Thursday 25 September Mad Hatters with Carla Maxwell Wednesdays 29 April – 17 June print) with Terry McKenna Magic-weavers with Jodie Goldring and Tuesday 7 April Thursday 3 and Friday 4 July Darn-Garrabeel: The White Swan The power of culture with Carla Maxwell Anne Newton Paper Capers with Chris Ellis with Deanne Gilson Monday 29 September Tuesday 13 January Mokuhungu — Japanese Wood Block Thursdays 30 April – 18 June Create a Stained Glass Window with Monday 22 September Printing with Terry McKenna Chris Ellis Multi-storey tree houses with Mark Junkyard Challenge with Mark Maxwell Wednesday 8 and Thursday 9 April Monday 7 July Make a Wall Hanging with Melinda Maxwell Wednesday 14 January PRE-SCHOOL SESSIONS Muscat Tuesday 30 September Plural = Mural with Pauline Colour & Shape with Kellie Maddaford O’Shannessy-Dowling Discover the Gallery Thursdays 15, 22 January Friday 10 April with Kellie Maddaford 9 October, 13 November, 11 December Do You See What I Hear? with Carmen Chan AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES Pre-schoolers Workshops Thursday 15 January with Kellie Maddaford Realistic Drawing with Shane Boland Thursdays 5, 12, 19 March Dragons with Pauline O’Shannessy- Mondays, 28 July – 15 September with Christine Hickson Dowling Thursdays 7, 14, 21 May Friday 16 January Who Am I with Melinda Muscat Merry-go-Round with Carla Maxwell Tuesdays, 29 July – 16 September Monday 19 January COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAMS Discover Mokuhanga (Japanese Drawing with Shane Boland Printmaking) with Terry McKenna Life Drawing Tuesday 20 January Wednesdays, 30 July – 17 September Saturdays and Sundays, , four eight- week terms Mosaics with Chris Ellis Bohemians in the Bush Wednesday 21 January Thursdays, 31 July – 18 September Portait Drawing Saturdays, four eight-week terms 3D Faces with Attitude with Maggie The Tree of Knowledge Dannatt with Deanne Gilson Gallery Sketch Group Thursday 22 January Mondays, 13 October – 1 December Thursdays 7 – 28 May

The Four Storey Tree House with Mark All the fun of the Fair with Mark Maxwell Maxwell Tuesdays, 14 October – 2 December

46 47 Gallery Staff and Volunteers Visitation

Director CASUAL STAFF Gallery visitation Gordon Morrison 108,888 Visitor Services Touring visitation Registrar Kelly Brett 25,526 Anne Rowland Matthew Deeks TOTAL VISITATION Paige Duggan Marketing and Public Programs Officer Verity Higgins Peter Freund Emma Lorenzen Deborah Meyers 134,414 Business Support Officer Kate Stevenson Kelly Smith Amy Tsilemanis Sam Thomas Exhibition Officers Andrea Thorpe Ben Cox Stacey Wellman Brenda Wellman Tarah Westblade Exhibition Services Registration Assistant Richard Grigg Julie McLaren Mark Hughes Dan Kelly DEECD Education Officer Anthony Sawrey Michael Nichols Lars Stenberg Julia Young Catholic Education Officer Pauline Doran VOLUNTEERS Eureka Education Officer Robert Allan Research: Alison Steel

Retail Manager Library: Helen Dehn Sue Jackson And the many members of the Gallery Visitor Services Foundation, Gallery Association, Mark Moravec Women’s Association, Gallery Guides Andi Simkin and the community who readily give left: Kiri Smart Harold Greenhill The Gasball, Manly (detail)1943 their time and energy to support the oil on board 39.4 x 47.2 cm. Purchased with funds Gallery. from the Colin Hicks Caldwell Bequest, 2015 48 49 Board Members

As of 30 June 2015

Cr Vicki Coltman Dr Mark Harris Assoc Prof Gerard Flemming Assoc Prof Jennifer Jones-O’Neill Colin Stephens EX OFFICIO Chair Deputy Chair BA(Melb), BEd(LaTrobe), GradCertRE, PhD and Grad Dip Business GAICD MBA, B.Bus MEd, PhD(ACU), Campus Dean, Administration (LaTrobe University), Colin is a Ballarat based antique and Mark Guirguis Mark Harris works locally as a medical Australian Catholic University (Ballarat Post Grad Dip Art Curatorial Studies art collector. He is a past President of Chair, Art Gallery of Ballarat Foundation Vicki is a Councillor with the City practitioner in the emergency Campus) and Grad Dip Library and Information the Association and a retired public of Ballarat and a Trustee for the departments of the city’s hospitals. Studies (Melbourne University) servant and has served on many Barry Wemyss Art Gallery Foundation. She has His community involvement includes Gerard (Joe) has a long standing community organisations. Association President many years’ experience working being a field emergency medical commitment to education and has Jennifer is Deputy Dean, Arts, in the business sector designing officer with State Displan and an active taught in both primary and secondary Humanities and Social Sciences at the Gordon Morrison and implementing IT systems and reserve medical officer. schools then branched into leadership University of Ballarat. Jennifer is also on Board Subcommittees Art Gallery of Ballarat Director processes for small to large private positions in education institutions. the Art Association Council. Previously, Governance and public organisations. Vicki is a past He has been awarded two major Jennifer has worked in management Finance Director of Central Highlands Water Peter Afford international scholarships. The first and held a curatorial role at the Strategic Alliance ART GALLERY OF BALLARAT and a past board member of BRACE Treasurer and Company Secretary at Bat Kol Institute in Jerusalem National Gallery of Victoria. She has Eureka Flag FOUNDATION TRUSTEES and Lead On Ballarat. She has a strong B Bus (Ballarat), CPA then in 2005 he was appointed the also been Deputy Head of Department commitment to her community and Cardinal Basil Hume Visiting Scholar at Monash University. Mark Guirguis, Chair has assisted many organisations. Peter is a Tax and Accounting Partner at the Margaret Beaufort Institute at Vicki Coltman at the Ballarat based accounting Cambridge University. Joe previously Pam Davies practice, PPT. He is involved in a served on the Board of the Committee Ruth Rentschler Daryl Powell number of school and sporting for Ballarat. BA(Hons) Melb, GradDip Vic College, Craig Mitchell organisations and currently chairs PhD Monash Garry Taylor the finance sub-committee and is a member of the Governance sub- Ruth is Chair, Academic Board and committee. Professor, Arts and Entertainment Management, Deakin University. She is a widely published arts management academic and is an artist in her private life. Ruth is the author of a number of professional papers and the editor of books and consultancy reports and manuals. She is deputy chair of the board of Multicultural Arts Victoria.

50 51 Budget Summary Budget Summary for the year ending 30 June 2014 for the year ending 30 June 2015

OPERATING INCOME OPERATING INCOME Earned income Earned income Admission frees (exhibitions/concerts/public programs) 134,689 Admission frees (exhibitions/concerts/public programs) 190,498 Venue hire 51,331 Venue hire 41,922 Merchandise 290,897 Merchandise 381,485 Other earned income 23,059 Other earned income 23,723 Government Funding Government Funding State Government funding 21,677 State Government funding 358,141 City of Ballarat funding 1,453,482 City of Ballarat funding 1,224,999 Private support Private support Philanthropic trusts 203,506 Philanthropic trusts 75,000 Sponsorship 52,932 Sponsorship 68,030 Donations / fundraising 38,750 Donations / fundraising 61,731 TOTAL INCOME 2,461,323 TOTAL INCOME 2,425,529

OPERATING EXPENDITURE OPERATING EXPENDITURE Salaries/fees 1,146,859 Salaries/fees 1,180,208 Marketing/promotion 204,878 Marketing/promotion 261,885 Program expenditure 536,246 Program expenditure 415,141 Administrative overheads 423,417 Administrative overheads 374,323 Other expenditure 149,923 Other expenditure 193,972 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 2,461,323 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 2,425,529 OPERATING RESULT Surplus/(Deficit) 0 OPERATING RESULT Surplus/(Deficit) 0 52 1413 1514 15