3 matches for flags, themes: 'built environment','creative life'
Diverse state (8) Aboriginal culture (1) Built environment (1) Creative life (2) Gold rush (1) Immigrants and emigrants (1) Kelly country (1) Land and ecology (2) Local stories (2)-
Kylie's Costumes
... Blue cotton double-breasted jacket and shorts with Australian Flag motif designed by Nicole Bonython [Australia]. Gift of Kylie Minogue, 1991 ...From Neighbours character, Charlene, to international pop sensation, Kylie Minogue’s costumes chart her rise, her style, and her creative energy.
The Kylie Costume Collection at the Arts Centre, Melbourne, shows the range and development of Kylie's persona through costume, and her collaborations with international and national designers.
As Kylie donates her costumes to the Arts Centre directly, curators are able to keep an extensive, chronological and very complete material record of Kylie's career, across her tours, album cover shoots, music videos, and red carpet and special events.
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Murray Darling Palimpsest #6
... Vic Waclawik 'Palaeochannel' Bamboo, fabric Artist’s Statement: "A line of blue flags represents the channel connecting Lake Mungo and Lake Leaghur. A stream may have existed here thousands of years ago, indicating the natural variation ...In 2006, Mildura Palimpsest became the Murray Darling Palimpsest, emphatically underscoring the identity of the region and its environmental interdependence.
The Murray Darling Palimpsest, staged in locations throughout the Murray Darling Basin, continues Palimpsest’s direct engagement with issues of environmental and social sustainability. With land and water use no longer in the background, Palimpsest is remarkable in its recognition that art affects attitudes, and reflects the engagement and connection many contemporary artists have to the environment; perhaps the most pressing issue we now face.
In 2006, Palimpsest brought together artists, scientists, environmentalists and other academics and commentators with the future of the Murray Darling Basin firmly in sight.
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History Teachers' Association of Victoria / Royal Historical Society of Victoria
MacRobertson's Confectionery Factory
... Kangaroos’ and ‘March of the Tommy Browns'. The final verse of 'Australian Kangaroos goes: Good-bye, Good-bye! Dear land of the Golden Wattle Our flag shall fly when in the crash of battle. Wives have cried, and sweethearts sighed, Comrades calling ...MacRobertson Steam Confectionery Works was a confectionery company founded in 1880 by Macpherson Robertson and operated by his family in Fitzroy, Melbourne until 1967 when it was sold to Cadbury.
This story accompanies the 'Nail Can to Knighthood: the life of Sir Macpherson Robertson KBE' exhibition which took place at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in 2015.