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Steve Nelson photos unmask Bayside’s magic Free photography exhibit runs Aug. 5 through 15 at Bayside Community Hall in Northport.
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NORTHPORT Bayside Arts presents a free exhibit of photographs by Steve Nelson in the gallery of the Bayside Community Hall, 813 Shore Road, Aug. 5 through 15. The gallery is open Thursdays through Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
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Regarding his photography, Nelson said, “It’s all too easy for me to get absorbed, sometimes overwhelmed, by my to-do lists. Being in the world with a camera, intentionally working at being present and attentive to mystery, sniffing for the emotional connections, restores my spirit.”
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Striking Arthur Boyd painting donated
Port Phillip Bay Evening by Arthur Boyd has been generously donated to the Bayside Arts and Heritage Collection.
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century.
Boyd’s work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both.
Port Phillip Bay, Evening is a striking nocturnal work that reduces the landscape of the bay to a minimalist and highly abstract composition. A moody palette of grey, brown and black is subtly punctuated by the distant lights of the Melbourne metropolis.
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History told through artefacts
Inside the Brighton Town Hall are rooms filled with photos, documents, art, costumes and other artefacts that tell the story of Bayside and its surrounds.
Run by volunteers from the Brighton Historical Society, the collection is curated during the year with exhibitions that change.
The society has enjoyed many milestones over nearly five decades, starting with the first public event in 1963 where locals brought their treasures for assessment by a local antique dealer.
This event delivered items from the estate of former councillor Thomas Wilson, which became the centre of its collection.
The Boon Wurrung people’s millennia long history in Bayside was highlighted in 2016 as the society formally repatriated a stone axe head to the Traditional Owners of the Bayside area.