Retro: Stories of Place
Mixed media collage 670H X 1000W
Cloudland Ballroom opened in 1940 and was the venue for balls, concerts, dances, civic events, school and university examinations and rock concerts. With its soaring vaulted arch, it dominated the Bowen Hills skyline until its tragic and illegal demolition in 1982.
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The Breakfast Creek Hotel was built 1889 to 1890 and designed in the French Renaissance architectural style. Along with the Spanish Garden steakhouse, it is a favourite Brisbane pub and restaurant.
Ford Falcon station wagons with tail fins were popular cars in the 1960’s. From 1960 the Ford Falcon was manufactured by Ford Australia until 2016.
A3 400mm x 500mm mixed media Acrylic and collage
The Indooroopilly Shoppingtown Playground was our idea of heaven in the seventies. Thanks to the moon landing and space race, lots of rocket ships appeared in Aussie playgrounds.
The Old Museum
Mixed media collage 740H x 950W
The Old Museum was designed in "progressive eclecticism” style. It had exhibition spaces and a concert hall. My favourite was a display of music boxes, a great brass wheel that played a tune or a pianola depending on which button you pressed. My husband loved Mephisto, the WW1 tank, that was captured in 1918 near Villers-Bretonneux.
Glow
400mm x 500mm Acrylic and collage
The image was created for the Shag Rock song Sun Bleached Girl and was inspired by the psychedelic designs of the sixties and seventies.
620mm x 410mm Acrylic and collage
Mr Fourex, a very Queensland icon, has gazed out from the Castlemaine Perkins Brewery, at Milton since the 1920’s. Also, Dad’s favourite beer.
400mm x 500mm Acrylic and collage
The Indooroopilly Shoppingtown Playground was our idea of heaven in the seventies. Thanks to the moon landing and space race, lots of rocket ships appeared in Aussie playgrounds
Fruit Tingles $120
300 x 290mm Gouache on paper -SOLD
Invented by Allens in Melbourne in the 1930’s they tingled nicely on the tongue-like Whizz Fizz sherbet in sold form.
290 x 290mm Gouache on paper
We practised smoking these as kids along with my favourite lollies, Big Boss Cigars.
Sunnyboy $120
290 x 290mm Original Gouache on paper-SOLD
A popular tuckshop choice because it took a long time to suck the orange colour out and crunch through last remaining icy triangle.
Original gouache 285 x 300 mm -SOLD
Always the last thing I ate from my Ekka Sample bags.
Original Gouache -290mm x290mm
Bertie Beetle $120
290 x 290mm Gouache on paper .
Simply the best show bag at the Ekka, Bertie Beetles were delicious until they started using compound chocolate.
The Festival Hall, originally known as Brisbane Stadium, was built in 1910. In 1958, the original venue was demolished and reopened as Festival Hall. The largest indoor public venue in Brisbane’s city it hosted hundreds of concerts over forty years. My first concert there was The Ramones in 1980.