NEWS DESK
Mental health support service opens A NEW mental health support facility has opened in the centre of Frankston. Frankston Mental Health and Wellbeing Local opened its doors on 9 November. Services at the centre are free and do not require a referral from a doctor. The mental health support centres are targeted towards people aged 26
and above. The facility will offer services by Wellways in partnership with Mentis Assist and Peninsula Health. It is part of the state government’s plans to tackle mental health. The new centre is now open on the ground floor of 454 Nepean Highway in Frankston. Walk-ins are welcome or people can call 1800 000 525 to access assistance.
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FRANKSTON Mental Health and Wellbeing Local general manager Cat Hunt (left) with representatives from the Department of Health. Picture: Supplied
PENINSULA Pearls on Peninsula Link. Picture: Supplied
Sculpture commission on offer WORK has begun to create a new sculpture to call Peninsula Link home. McClelland Gallery is accepting expressions of interest for its $300,000 “Southern Way McClelland Commission”. The successful applicant will create an artwork to be installed along Peninsula Link adjacent to the Skye Road bridge near the southbound Langwarrin exit ramp. The new sculpture will be installed in 2025. Peninsula Pearls by Manon Van Kouswijk was placed at the site in 2021. McClelland Gallery director Lisa Byrne is encouraging artists to “think expansively and creatively as to what may be possible for the Skye Road site.” “Don’t be swayed by what has previously been installed. Bring your own interpretation to this process. There is no other public sculpture commission in Australia like this,”
Byrne said. “By inviting artists to submit expressions of interest McClelland aims to deliver best practice, not requiring artists to submit full design briefs, engineering considerations, or detailed budgets. It’s the quality of the ideas and concept that counts. McClelland will work with the winning artist and Southern Way to turn the winning EOI into a reality.” The sculptures are rotated every four years as part of a partnership between Southern Way and McClelland Gallery. In the last month the Love Flower and Reflective Lullaby sculptures have been removed from their roadside sites to make way for new works (“Gnome no more by road” The Times 17/10/23). Expressions of interest for the Skye Road sculpture site close on 8 December, 2023. For more information visit mcclelland.org.au/pages/publicsculpture-commissions
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Frankston Times
14 November 2023
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