Just as much at home riding a Harley motorcycle through the desert as he is mingling in a classy art gallery, Sailors Falls creative Michael Lelliott works with paint, drawing, photography, film, sculpture and sound to celebrate beauty where he finds it.
“Phillip Edwards, who has the Bullarto Gallery, and I are just back from a trip to the desert, the Mungo National Park, camping in swags. What I love about getting into that space is that the more you sit and wait, the more that’s revealed. You start to see the shift in colour and the shift in time, and the Mungo is on this amazing dune that’s constantly being pushed back revealing layers going back in time. We had a walking tour there with an Indigenous guide. And while we were there we also started painting under moonlight which was a really interesting experience.Last year I spent the six months discovering mark-making again. We went to the desert. Mutawintji and Bimbowrie. I think ‘space’ is the right word. The landscape gives you permission to be present.”
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After many years of paying her dues in the competitive world of professional video production, Bullarto’s Nadine Jade has reached the stage where she can finally choose which projects to accept.
It’s a position many in this hard-to-crack field would envy – but it’s been hard-earned. Nadine’s chosen path emerged early, while still at high school in Ballarat when she started studying photography and then video production. “When I was in year 10 I discovered the dark room. It was the mid-90s so it was still film and analogue VHS editing,” she says. “I found I loved capturing people. Then I discovered video and the Mount Clear High School at Ballarat was very well equipped with a TV studio and editing suite so I learnt how to properly produce videos from about the age of 16. Then I started to do pro shoots in crews and make music videos. When it went to digital I was in my early 20s and I taught myself digital editing...I love editing. Turning beautiful shots into a coherent story.”
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Brilliantly coloured images of rock and pop stars fill a book by Yandoit’s Dave Lewis.
They arose out of extreme trauma. He says if his wife had not heard a bump as their daughter Kate fell out of bed, she would be dead. It seemed that Kate, then 16, was having a fit. She was unable to speak. An ambulance took her first to Ballarat, then to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She was there for six months recovering from an aneurysm, During Kate’s time in the Royal Melbourne Dave lined her white walls with Texta drawings of music legends, from Bob Dylan to Patti Smith. Now, in his 136-page book are Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Blue Lines, Massive Attack, Kurt Vile, and Yo La Tengo, a famously noisy American alternative rock band formed in 1984, with their 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. Dave’s book was launched at Words in Winter in August. Read the full story at
Creswick Regional Park Walk II: St Georges Lake to Cosgrave Reservoir via the old koala park, Chinese plum orchard and Eaton’s Dam - 9km return.
Paddy H and I are in luck as Creswick artist and keen bushwalker Craig Barrett has kindly offered to guide us on one of his favourite walks. It will take in the old Creswick Koala Park, relics of the 1860s gold rush era, an old Chinese plum orchard and the notable stone walls of Eaton’s Dam. Craig explains that the walk starts from the St Georges Lake’s smaller, lesser-used south eastern car park, just out of Creswick, off the Melbourne Road. We are in the Creswick Regional Park, part of the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. In part, our walk ahead will follow a small snippet of the Goldfields Walking Track (Buninyong to Bendigo) and it also overlaps where Creswick’s new mountain bike track is being built. Gaining gentle elevation, striding through aromatic bushland for just under a kilometre, we soon arrive at the remnant boundary fence of the old koala park.
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Coomoora’s Patrice O’Shea has received an Order of Australia Medal in the General Division for services to the environment and secondary education in the King’s Birthday Honours list. Patrice has been secretary of the Friends of Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens since 2010 and was a teacher at Ballarat Grammar from 1982 to 2009. Patrice said the award was “affirming” but was keen to add that many people were just as worthy. “But it is a lovely thing that people have gone to considerable effort to make it happen and it is pretty affirming to know that. I think the vast majority of people in education work bloody hard and why do you single out one person, but having said that it was a profession that I certainly enjoyed enormously. It is hard work, there is no doubt about that, but the vast majority of people who do it are worthy of recognition.” Patrice said she entered teaching because she enjoyed being a student. “You would hope good teachers make a difference – that’s the plan, what’s supposed to happen and you would hope if you were in the (teaching) game you would be one of them.”
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Malmsbury artist Tia Alysse discovered her natural and considerable talent for art while still a school child.
From a very young age she was encouraged in her arts endeavour with praise from teachers. Her love of animals, however, would see her go on to study veterinary science at university before she ultimately resolved to dedicate herself to art. Tia has been selling her artwork commercially since late 2016 through galleries, interior design stores and her own studio, and now teaches painting classes as well. Commissions are also a big part of what she does. “Also in the past two years my Country Canvases art classes have been my bread and butter. I will also be doing spring-summer workshops where people choose a class by subject matter.” Her commisions are mostly cats and dogs, but there’s also been horses, the odd lizard. “There have been alpacas, rabbits, husbands...and occasionally people. I do like to enter the Archibald just for the fun of it.”
The Aurora Australis lit up the skies of Central Victoria in May Image: Brenda Johns
It’s the sense of tradition, history and occasion that Creswick’s Philip Greenbank most loves about his role as town crier.
As official town crier for Hepburn Shire since 2015, Philip belongs to the rather exclusive group of individuals in Australia and worldwide who continue to preserve a tradition dating back to at least 1066 and the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror. However, Biblical references suggest the time-honoured role of town crier as official public information bearer and announcement-maker goes back even further. “Town criers used to give you the news and information,” says Philip, who first became a town crier in 2014. He says he became a town crier “by accident” after he was invited to attend a town crier competition. After trying on the role himself he soon discovered an aptitude for it, swiftly taking out second place in the very first town crier competition in which he participated. Today he is president of the Australasian Guild of Town Criers.
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The experience of community members being talked over at an ageing conference was the spark that inspired the theme of a new short film shot in Clunes.
That film, Giving Voice to Ageing Well in a Small Community, has now gone on to become one of three made to help tell the story of a groundbreaking collaboration between Central Highlands Rural Health, Clunes Neighbourhood House and members of Attitude. The contemporary Clunes-based alternative to the senior citizens of yesteryear, Attitude is a community-led initiative providing ongoing social, cultural, creative and physical activities for retirees and folk aged 55 plus, with all ages welcome. The 12-month collaboration between Attitude, CHRH and Clunes Neighbourhood House has trialled a new approach to improving older folk’s physical and psychological well-being. Findings were the focus of a special event held before a packed house in Clunes in July at Attitude in the town’s Fraser Street. Read the full story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 310
Free places!
Creswick’s parkrun
Jubilee Lake
Mt Franklin Reserve
Thomas’ Lookout/Cornish Hill
Glenlyon Reserve
Daylesford Mill Market
Lake Daylesford (pictured)
Wombat Hill Botanic Garden
Trentham Rail Trail
Trentham Falls
Myriad mineral springs
Bush walks
Lerderderg Gorge
Glenlyon Falls
Sailors Falls waterfall/lookout
Markets...
Clunes Farmers Market
Castlemaine Artists Market
Kyneton Farmers Market
Ballan Farmers Market
Maldon Market
Trentham Farmers & Makers Markets
Glenlyon Farmers Market
Creswick Market
Leonards Hill Market
Talbot Farmers Market
Woodend Lions Market
Malmsbury Farmers Market
Daylesford Market
Trentham Station Market
Daylesford Railway Market
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Two Lakes Walk, Daylesford
“This would have to be the classic Daylesford walk,” enthuses Paddy H as we head off beneath an ominous sky to sample the Two Lakes 8km loop.
“You’re probably right,” I reply after we’ve exchanged pleasantries with a beaming couple and their well rugged-up Italian greyhound. Ahead, our walk will take us from Lake Daylesford to Jubilee Lake, and return, through some lovely remnant native bushland and past some notable physical remnants of Daylesford’s colourful 1800s past. We’re responsibly equipped with a printed walk description and map that I picked up from the Daylesford Visitor Information Centre much earlier in the year when the days were still warm. Now, heading out clockwise around Lake Daylesford, from the main car park off Bleakley Street, we reach the spillway, its guidewires festooned with lovelocks, poignant little emblems of personal commitment. The words “40 years married,” are etched onto the nearest lock on which my camera lens lands.
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Fern Hill’s Lauretta Hanson crossed the line in 22nd place in the women’s Road Race in Paris in the 2024 Olympics.
Teammate Grace Brown, who already had a gold from a previous event, crossed the line in 23rd place both five minutes behind the winner, while Australian Ruby Roseman-Gannon was caught up in a mid-race crash and finished 39th. The 157.2km epic race around the streets of Paris was won by American Kristen Faulkner in three hours, 59 minutes and 23 seconds. The course started and finished in the shadows of the Eiffel Tower and included a 110km loop which crossed Paris’ left bank and the Hauts-de-Seine, Yvelines and Essonne departments before returning to the city for an 18.5km loop which included the ascent up Montmartre. Lauretta described the race as an incredible experience. “Every time up Montmartre you could hardly hear yourself. The crowds were phenomenal, we went out there and gave it our best. We had a little bit of bad luck in the crash, but we tried and that’s all you can ask for.”
Image: AusCycling - Josh Chadwick
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Numbers you might need
Emergency – Fire, Police, Ambulance - 000
Daylesford Taxis – 5348 1111
Springs Medical Centre, Daylesford – 5348 2227
Daylesford Hospital – 5321 6500
Daylesford Police – 5348 2342
SES – 132 500
Daylesford Regional Visitor Information Centre – 5321 6123
Places you might need
Daylesford Post Office – 86 Vincent Street
ATMs in Daylesford:
Bendigo – 97 Vincent Street
Westpac – 45 Vincent Street
Commonwealth – 36-40 Vincent Street
ANZ - 52 Vincent Street
A secret you might like!
It’s not quite a secret but maybe you don’t know about it yet. Which television show is coming to Daylesford? It’s all about building and decorating and selling. It’s going to be a busy time in the old town - with lots of extra tradies wandering around. Will they be carrying cups of McDonald’s coffee? Or will they choose their beverages from the many on offer from local cafes? We hope the latter latte.
A300 to Mt Franklin 4km to Castlemaine 30km to Bendigo 68km
Jacksons Lookout Tower
SPRINGS
C316 to Glenlyon 9km to Malmsbury 27km to Kyneton 31km
to Malmsbury 27km to Kyneton 31km
View Hill Rd
Rosella Ln
C317 to Trentham 25km to Woodend 45km to Melbourne 113km via Calder Fwy
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Parker Trewhella
Frazer
Grenville
Stanhope
Stanley
Queensberry
Orford Daly
Camp
Duke
Vincent
Bridport
Harts Ln
Langdon Crt
Millar
West
Perrins
Fulcher
Tierneys Ln
Grenville
Lake Road
A300 to Blampied 8km to Newlyn 15km to Creswick 24km to Clunes 41km to Ballarat 39km
C141 to Sailors Falls 3km to Ballan 30km to Melbourne 109km via Western Fwy
