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Artists go where the wild things are NATURAL history is a feature of the three exhibitions now running at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery. The Art of Science is a Museum Victoria touring exhibition showing the art produced during 300 years of exacting scientific observation and illustration. The exhibition shows the development of scientific art from the museum’s seldom seen collection of artworks and rare books as well as images produced with microscopes, macrolenses and computers. Vision Splendid: Landscapes of Phillip Island and Western Port features works by Eugene von GuÊrard, Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Walter Withers and Rick Amor, and is the first exhibition to consider artistic representations of this unique and varied stretch of coast and land. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Phillip Island and Western Port became a favourite destination for artists as they searched for views and vistas beyond the familiar confines of Melbourne and Port Phillip. Along with the treks of singular artists, Phillip Island and the shores of Western Port also played host to artists’ camps where drawings and paintings were made, and ideas formed and exchanged. The Call of the Coast shows work by Australian watercolourist Robert Wade who has travelled and painted across the globe, from the markets of Morocco to the canals of Venice. However, in this exhibition it is an outcrop of rock on the Mornington Peninsula that continues to capture his imagination. The exhibition has 15 studies of Pulpit Rock at Cape Schanck, which Wade donated to the gallery in 2007. Painted over many years, the works range from 1983 to 2007. Strange creatures: Peta Collings of MPRG with Albertus Seba’s 1734 book. Picture: Yanni
A load of rubbish By Mike Hast THE Mornington Park precinct was marred by rubbish after the hot weekend and looked like a Third World country, says resident Paul Smith. Mr Smith and former chamber of commerce president Scott Crowe are “citizen cleaners� who pick up rubbish in the precinct during regular morning and evening walks.
The pair has been calling for improved rubbish collection for several years. “At 8pm on Sunday I visited the precinct while walking my dog. The whole area was absolutely disgusting, littered with rubbish and picnic waste everywhere,� Mr Smith said. “Rubbish bins where overflowing in Mornington Park, the Mothers Beach picnic area, and the boat hire picnic area.�
Mr Smith complained to Briars Ward councillors Anne Shaw and Andrew Dixon in an email sent on Sunday. “Councillors, it is clearly obvious that the shire staff responsible for overseeing the placement of sufficient bins for the summers season have failed miserably (yet again), leaving our iconic tourist area to be destroyed visually by all those who visited the area on
Sunday in particularly and other days over the past two weeks,� he wrote. “The users of the area cannot be blamed if there is insufficient ‘waste capacity’. “Rubbish piled up against full bins obviously is a poor scenario at the best of times and with the stronger winds that prevailed during Sunday, this caused a particularly negative result.�
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Mr Smith said more bins were urgently needed and should be emptied more often. He said rubbish in public parks was not just confined to Mornington. “It is a problem right down the Port Phillip side of the peninsula,� he said. He called for better performances by shire officers and cleaning contractors. Continued Page 9