
- Art appreciation group visited the highly popular exhibition of Yayoi Kasame at the NGV
- Our theatre enthusiasts attended the musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, at the Princess Theatre. Some members had even been to the original production in the 1970s!
- The wine tasters traded their usual wine tasting evening in March, for a road trip to Rutherglen to enjoy a number of wineries. I daresay plenty of wine was tasted!!
- Members travelled to New Gisborne via train to enjoy a Sunday Roast at Baringo Food and Wine.




Over coffee, at the NGV Café, six lovers of design and fashion reflected on the stunning garments designed by Martin Grant. Much to our surprise we previously had known little about his work; probably because as a young designer he left Australia in the late 1970’s for Paris. However, it was more likely the price tags. What impressed us most was that his garments could be worn today. Whilst they are timeless and have endured the test of time the same cannot be said for us. We did reminisce on how we all could have once worn them.
Design sketches, information about each garment (type of fabrics, beading etc), photography, press clippings and runway footage provided background information as to how these works of ART were created.
A beautiful and stunning exhibition that is well worth seeing.
Next: Excursion: FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM @ 11 am 14th July NGV International








Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most celebrated living artists. Her polka-dotted pumpkin and flower sculptures are recognised globally, and her infinity mirror rooms are pivotal to the twenty-first century’s turn towards art as an immersive experience.









Pinnacle of the exercise was of course the four giant boring machines. Each is 120m long, equal to three big trams end-to-end, and weighing 1100 tonnes. The cutter head is 7.3m diameter. The borer creeps it way at about 10m per day, sealing the tube as it goes and pumping out the dirt to the surface after converting it to a slurry.
We learnt that for the UK-France tunnel project, the giant borers were too awkward to recover when their job was done, so they were buried deep for eternity. Below: Member Jim dons his virtual reality 4D mask.

Afterwards, many of us trooped to coffee at Dymocks, our heads bursting with arcane knowledge about Melbourne’s underground low-jinks.

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