Beside the Yarra

From a riverbank in Mildura, to the streets of Melbourne, to the world’s most prestigious art galleries: this is the story of  artist Trevor...

At the start of the 20th century, Harry Houdini was the world’s most popular entertainer, and one of its most famous celebrities. In 1910, h...

When it opened in 1968, Melbourne’s National Gallery Victoria made a bold choice for its first exhibition; weird, curious, cutting edg...

At the tip of Point Nepean, south of Melbourne, is a sprawling reminder of a less advanced era; the city’s former Quarantine Station, w...

Stretched along the St Kilda foreshore, south west of the city, is something unlikely; a to-scale model of our entire Solar System. St ...

Sailor, artist, businessman and iconoclast, Wilbraham Liardet was one of early Melbourne’s most unique inhabitants. Read about him on...

Hi all, For anyone who has stumbled across this blog, a short note to say that I am re-locating to a new site, which you can find here: ...