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The Community Magazine for Boroondara, Monash & Whitehorse Cities Issue no. 126 Spring 2012 Teen Spirit on the Kokoda Trail What Inspires an Artist Snooker’s Lone Ranger Meet More of Burwood’s Birds! 25 Years for Neighbourhood House FREE Local Business Directory Lift-Out Plus 16 Pages of Local Happenings 6000 Copies Distributed Quarterly. Advertising Details Page 25 Cover photo: Local students embark on the This Issue Kokoda challenge SPRING 2012 Regulars Features 20 BULLETIN NOTICEBOARD 5 Artist Shares his Vision 22-3 BURWOOD VILLAGE TRADERS’ REPORT 24-5 BUSINESS & SMALL BUSINESS DIRECTORY 9 Wattle Park Primary Blooming 25 INFORMATION FOR ADVERTISERS 26 SCRIBE’S SCRIBBLES 10 Students Face Kokoda Challenge 30 COMMUNITY NOTICES INDEX 15 Burwood RSL in Snooker war 19 27 16 More Birds in Burwood 18 Cooking for Charity 19 Neighbourhood House Celebrates 18 4 21 Peridot: a Gem in the Theatre Scene 27 Museum Conducts History Lessons 30–46 Community Notices BULLETIN PEOPLE Issue 126 The Burwood Bulletin is produced by From the Editor volunteers who provide a range of talents Welcome to the Spring issue of the Burwood Bulletin. freely for the beneit of the community Our volunteer team has once again been working hard to President Bob Stensholt bring our readers stories about the interesting people and Vice President Kathy Clarkson events that make up our great community. The experience Treasurer Sue Tay of local students walking the Kokoda Trail, I think, is inspiring; Secretary [email protected] we have another instalment from Kathy Clarkson in our Birds Alan MacGavin ph 0408 325 325 in Burwood series; and I hope you enjoy Brooke’s Editor Chris Gray ph 9873 4797 [email protected] (“A Kid in Burwood”) contribution, now appearing as “Brooke’s Corner”. Advertising Robert Kay ph 9836 5520 Layout/Design Cheryl Grant Indeed, there are so many interesting stories and events Graphic Designers Laura Tynan in the district that we have had to push some stories back Jan Harrison Linda Hii (Kwik Kopy) to the next issue. Please keep letting us know all the great things that are going on in your part of the neighbourhood. Proofreaders Natalie Filmer Barrie Harding Susan Whitehead Printing BPA Print Group Burwood Bulletin Inc. ABN 90 904 070 125 Tom Markovski ph: 9808 6622 PO Box 87 Burwood 3125 Writing Team email [email protected] Rosemary Feneziani Jean Hadler www.burwoodbulletin.org Jeff Sargeant Susan Webster The Burwood Bulletin wishes to advise that the Margaret Warland Keith Smith views or remarks expressed in this publication are not necessarily the views of the Burwood MarJo Angelico Kathy Clarkson Bulletin editorial or production staff and no Zeynep Tahmazoglu Anna Douglas endorsement or service is implied by the listing of advertisers, sponsors or contributors. Associates Margaret Rockow Although every effort is made in reproducing Charles Hui Lavanya Kenneth and printing advertisements correctly, we can take no responsibility for errors. 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E N E Customers Are Really Everything T G N U A A R SERVICE & REPAIRS 9888 7000 21 Duffy Street, Burwood www.burwoodautomotiveandexhaust.com.au 4 BURWOOD BULLETIN September - November 2012 Michael Donnelly: Artist, Illustrator and Teacher Working in several ields of the arts, Ashburton resident but perceptive approach was very encouraging. Upon Michael Donnelly has since 1984 held several solo exhibitions, completing my post-grad course at VCA I was invited and participated in group shows in Australia and the USA. to take part in a new mentoring program and was paired Michael complements his art practice with work as a visiting with William (Bill) Kelly, a former dean of the College, teacher with the vision impaired and in the Support Skills who has a strong human rights/social justice bent to his Program at the Statewide Vision Resource Centre. work, but is a very gentle and thoughtful teacher. Deborah Blakeley, of Zoneone Arts, spoke with Michael. I was also fortunate in working alongside a number How would you of very generous and describe your style? committed artists in I have variously my post-grad course described my “style” as that led to ongoing and igurative, expressionist, encouraging friendships. surreal, narrative. I’m not What is your irst source of sure I particularly have inspiration? one: more that my work My faith and belief in a has elements of all that I God who is deeply and have mentioned. lovingly involved in his What art qualiications creation, is connected do you have? How did you to it, and connects all decide to become an artist? parts of it together. I have a degree in Art hose connections, the Education from what was relationship between all the Alexander Mackie things, provide me with or City Art Institute in the stuf of my work. Sydney from the early Scale is a really interesting ‘80s and a post-grad Hartwell Oval Land, 2008 and diicult topic. How do Diploma in Fine Art: you achieve a good scale? Painting from the VCA (Victorian College of the Arts) in I have always made pictures the size I thought they Melbourne from the mid-’90s. needed to be. As much as possible, though, I try to keep I spent much of my childhood drawing and making stuf one dimension to less than the four-foot width of my in and out of school. In the last years of primary school I Tarago’s back door. discovered that there were such things as artists and galleries, What do you love to do when you are not painting? and then in high school I had a couple of enthusiastic art Reading, bike riding, watching detective shows on the teachers who modelled a possible way forward. ABC and working with children who are blind, or have Looking back at your irst art, what painting knowledge do low vision, in my paid teaching work. you wish you had then? Do you have a favourite book that you return to for I actually came to painting fairly late on, after years inspiration? of focusing on my drawing practice. My introduction to he Bible, Joyce’s Ulysses, Dylan homas’s Under Milk painting in under-grad was marred, I feel, by lecturers Wood, Gerard Manly Hopkins’s and Les Murray’s poetry who insisted on painting meaning only one way of … and also music – jazz, opera, sacred and gospel, folk, operating and perceiving things, so I shifted across to rock, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Ravel, ceramics and printmaking disciplines where there seemed Donizetti – depends on when and what I am doing. to be more freedom in what you made and could explore, What are your favourite galleries in Melbourne, and despite the technical rules. By the end of my art ed course gallery/galleries in the world that you visit? I was particularly engrossed by the act of drawing, which In Melbourne: Heide Museum of Modern Art in pulled together some of my primary interests in form Bulleen, the McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, and iguration from ceramics and printmaking. Once I Langwarrin; and, in the past, Realities Gallery, Roar 2 realised that it was ine to paint the way I wished to paint, Studios, and the NGV before it was remodelled. Overseas: I started exploring it again. Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge with its celebration of early 20th Is there an artist who has inluenced you? century British art, Fondation Maeght near St-Paul-de- I have been inluenced by many artists over time. Vence, the Musée Picasso in Paris and the British Museum. hese include John Brack, Andrew Wyeth, Brett Whitely, My signature Zoneone Arts question – what are the most Donald Friend, Stanley Spencer, David Hockney, Lucien important design elements? Freud, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, William Robinson, Originally I would have said just line, tone, and to name a few. then form with my drawing work. Colour has become Do you have a mentor or have [you ever] had a mentor? increasingly important to me in my painting. In my art making, two “mentors” have been signiicant. How do you see your art evolving? In the late ‘80s/early ‘90s I often attended life drawing Very slowly, consolidating what has come before. through the National Gallery of Victoria Society, and the classes were tutored by Chris Dyson, whose laid-back • Read more arts interviews on www.zoneonearts.com.au September - November 2012 BURWOOD BULLETIN 5 ASHWOOD GREEN GROCERY A Fresh and Friendly Welcome & VARIETY STORE Fresh Fruit & Vegetables Confectionary & Cold Drinks Variety Children Clothing Household Items Wholesale Fruit & Vegetables L-R, Emily, Susan Webster, Evan and Weiqin Shi to cafe & restaurants n January 2011, Xiaomin Yu took over the Ashwood Greengrocer and Variety Store in Trading Hours I Warrigal Rd. Xiaomin came out from China with her Mon - Fri 7.30am - 6.00pm family in October 2009, and after arriving in Australia Sat 7.30am - 4.00pm decided to adopt the name “Emily”. She now lives in Hughesdale, and her son “Evan” is studying Sunday - CLOSED engineering at Monash University.