WAYOUT_blp_Online_Object_Register

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2	#	DRAWN?	Returned?	Object Image	Lender's description	From Aboriginal Country	From Colonial place name	From post code	Lender's name	Lender's surname	QR code	Lender's story of the object / object's human aura / provenance /
3	1	√	√		Lamp - upcycled, shabby chic	Wiradjuri	Kandos	2848	Leanne	Wicks		I painted it my fav colour and added lace, buttons, beads to add a calm ambience to loungeroom during DV and family court
4	2	√	√		woven basket	Wiradjuri	Ilford	2850	Christine	Hassall		This object was brought back from PNG by mum from visiting missionaries. Her husband had just died on an aircraft carrier, and I had just been to indigenous weaving workshop. The object is on display in the bedroom from the time when Dad died.
5	3	poem	√		ceramic fairy	Wiradjuri	Rylstone	2849	Mikaela	Murphy		This is a ceramic fairy that holds meaning to Mikaela in connection to Kandos/Rylstone for 20 years.
6	4	√	√		playing cards	Wiradjuri	Kandos	2848	Faith	Cauchi		I play Patience every morning - it is a relaxing way to start the day. My original pack got worn and so I bought a new one.
7	5	√	√		Tall Wooden fish	Wiradjuri	Kandos	2848	Fleur	McDonald		I have a connection with fish, they are my next project. I will talk more about it during the show.
8	6	√	√		Bedside cane table	Wiradjuri	Kandos	2848	Ann	Finegan		I have a house rule - no new furniture. This table was in the house when I bought Kandos Projects.
9	7	√	√		fossil	Dharug and Gundungurra	Katoomba	2780	Jenny	Brown		Deep time has always fascinated me and this fossil captured some of its complexity when I found it in 1982 on Wiradjuri land set to be made into a road.
10	8	v	nas		wooden tray	Eora Nation	Annandale	2038	Diane	Losche		This wooden tray is my coffee table top for breakfast. I have several trays for this purpose so can do without this one for a while.
11	9	v	nas		handbag	Eora Nation	Darlinghurst	2010	Christine	Ackers		This object was bought from the Salvation Army some time ago, admired for its functionality: it appears like an innocent dress-bag but actually functions to carry a lot of work gear, so I called it Auntie May's kit bag.
12	10	√TB	nas		folding table legs	Eora Nation	Balmain	2041	Ella	Dreyfus		These are the decorated table legs from my late mother's special table. When properly installed, it has a circular glass top whose weight holds the legs in place.
13	11	√	nas		Lyrebird tail feather	Darug	Glenorie	2157	Gary	Warner		This is the outer tail feather of a lyrebird that I found on the ground in the bush in Glenorie, near where I live.
14	12	√			Silver lamp shade	Wiradjuri	Dubbo	2880	Kris	Long		Kris is the eternal decorator: The lamp shade is significant to Kris as she is constantly reimagining her living space. She redecorates and changes her furniture, lamps and cushions regularly.
15	13	√	nas		small amber bottle	Wiradjuri	Dubbo	2880	Jude	Crawford		This is an empty small amber bottle that has contained various flower essences in the past. The presence of the essences seem to remain even though invisible.
16	14	v	nas		circular object with yellow	Eora	Darlinghurst		Joe	Frost		I live with this object at work in Darlinghurst. I thought it was left behind by Lynne Eastaway, but she has no memory of it, so I dont know how it came to be there
17	15	√	nas		Kodak Brownie 127 Camera	Wiradjuri	Dubbo	2880	Jude	Morrell		I am a photographer, and this is a camera that is the same model as the first camera I ever used.
18	16	KATE4 DEACOCK	nas		chrome kettle with black handle	Eora Nation	Mona Vale NSW	2103	Margaret	Seymour		A kettle I used a lot, but though I do not use it anymore it is still working and too good a design to discard.
19	17	MC				Eora	Sydney	2000	John	Stanfield		mum's carry bag that she used on her walker before she died.
20	18	MC	nas		Ethiopian basket lid	Eora	Clovelly NSW	2031		Mabu		From all the objects I live with, I chose the lid of an Ethiopian bread basket for this exhibition. It is handwoven from partially dyed grass and palm leaves. Why does it have this peculiar shape? So you can lift it with one hand. Why do I value it? Because it helps maintain a balance of moisture that keeps the inside of the bread soft and its exterior crusty. Thus my bread stays fresher, longer. But most of all because it brings back memories of my Ethiopian family, of women weaving palm straw in a thousand year old tradition, of grinding flour, of baking and breaking bread.
21	19	√	nas		blue plate	Eora	Leichhardt	2040	Marghanita	da Cruz		The object is a plate brought to Australia by my mother when our family migrated.
22	20	√	nas		red poncho	Eora	Balmain	2041	David	Chemke		The red poncho was a gift to Ella from Sarah Goffman, and which I now live with and occasionally wear for the camera.
23	21	v	nas		sociology text book	Eora	Leichhardt NSW	2040	Denise	Thompson		This book is a text book I read for my undergraduate Sociology degree in the early 1970s. At the time, I wasn’t too sure how I felt about it, but now I’ve come to realise that it is absolute rubbish, largely because it shows no awareness of what ‘society’ might be and how it operates. And at least one entry is thoroughly pernicious. That’s the Kinsey Report entry. That report presented their research as ‘value-free’, with the consequence that it was driven, shaped and structured by ravening unconscious values, those oughts and ought nots that give meaning to social arrangements. Social reality is never without values, conscious or not, and the more they are denied, the greater their influence. . . .
24	22	√ mc	nas		The Yeomans Merlin Gauntlet	Illawarra	Bulli NSw	2516	Lucas	Ihlein		The Yeomans Merlin Gauntlet is a particular Yoemans Plough Tip, and part of a body of agricultural machinery that Yoemans invented for farming methods that stop global warming. This Yeomans Merlin Gauntlet was given to me by Yeomans' son, who turned Yeomans' inventions into a commercial venture.
25	23	√	nas		Stovetop coffee maker	Jinibar	Woodford NSW	2778	Beata	Geyer		This is a vev-vigano Kontessa stovetop coffee maker from Katoomba op shop, being lent because I have had coffee everyday of my life since age 18. This coffee maker cost $6—I like second hand objects.
26	24	√VD	√		objects from ancestors	Dharug and Gundungurra	North Katoomba	2780	Vivienne	Dadour		These are objects taken from my ancester's graves while they were being maintained by my aunts.
27	25	√	√		Pottery head	Wiradjuri	Kandos NSw	2848	David	Hitchenson		This is my first pottery object that I finished in a community pottery class I attended.
28	26	√	nas		colour cube	Eora	Marrickville NSW	2204	Chelsea	Lehmann		This is a CMY (Cyan Magenta Yellow) cube that I use in painting
29	27	√ SC	nas		LAMY propelling pencil	Eora		2000	Annelies	Jahn		This is one of the many LAMY propelling pencils that Annelies uses daily, this one .5mm lead 4B.
30	28	√	(√)		Green doll's house	Tharawal	Sutton Forest NSW	2577	Toni	Warburton		This green doll's house was loaned to Toni by Ann Finegan when Toni was in Kandos. So while it belongs in Kandos Toni has been living with it in Sutton Forrest for some time. To consult with Ann re its being drawn, photographed, listed in on line record etc etc. To be returned to Ann on completion of WAYOUT_blp.
31	29	√SC	nas		glass kiwi	Eora	Darlinghurst NSW	2010	Juanita Hyde; Apeksha Halasagi; Kate Stitt.	NAS People & Culture Team		The NAS People and Culture team would like to lend our little glass kiwi to WAYOUT_blp. It was a gift from my sister 20 years ago and as Kate is also a Kiwi, I bought it into our office to bring good luck. Apeksha has been to New Zealand and loves the country and is happy for the Kiwi to come from our team as she is part of our whanau too! Juanita Hyde.
32	30	√	nas		toy rat	Eora	Sydney NSW	2000	Jaime	Tsai		It’s a toy rat that my two cats love – they are indoor cats and occasionally we will find the rat in different places around the house which is always a cute surprise. Also they like to bring it to us (Harley and I) if they are hungry by way of an offering.
33	31	√ JI	nas		red table top	Eora	Glebe NSW	2037	Vsevelod	Vlaskine		A red table top (without its legs), that Seva and James live with in Glebe.
34	32	√	nas		cubby house door	Eora	Maroubra NSW 2035	2035	Luna	Gui		This is the door of a cubby house belonging to my daughter, Ella, who is 6. The door stands in for the whole cubby house which would have been too big to transport itself.
35	33	√	√		tin with conical lid	Eora	Balmain	2041	Sue	Callanan		I imagine this object is for spreading chickenfeed. I have had it in my shed for a very long time. In fact, I think it came with the house. I have, one occasion for an artwork, installed candles in the holes, which explains the melted wax inside.
36	34	√	nas		teddy bear	Wiradjuri	Dubbo NSW	2880	Karen-Lea	Delaney		The bear is mine. That is baby oaty bear. He has parents. I have had him for about 20 years. I live in an old heritage home and he fits right in. He has been living on an old stately chair with his parents except for the odd visit outside when my sneaky husky steals him away. He loves Oaty as much as I do.
37	35	x	√		Object (Found and Kept)	Dharug and Gundungurra	Katoomba NSW	2780	Kate	Deacock		An object I cherish, which I call Object (Found and Kept)
38	36	√	√		Yoga spike	Dharug Country	Blackheath NSW	2785	Susan	Andrews
39	37	√	√		toy car	Eora	Newtown NSW	2042	Linden	Braye		The object was a gift from our teenager neighbour Tony in Wollongong when I was aged 3, and came with us to Sydney but disappeared there to be later dug up from the back yard by my father.
40	38		√		jar of ocean water	Dharug and Gundungurra	Katoomba NSW	2780	Karen	Banks		With place difficult to define when there is no fixed address or attachment to any particular geographical location, I looked for a space that offered as welcoming. (Terra Firma did not qualify in any real, meaningful sense.) But the ocean water offers as a welcoming space, feels personal because questions about belonging dont need to even be considered/addressed. An ephemeral space but offering free passage and untroubled access. The object of a sample jar of the ocean water at a northern NSW beach - where I have swum for decades - represents my version of place.
41	39	√	nas		Pop art candlestick	Eora	Earlwood NSW	2206	Moira	Thompson		This candle stick was from the National Art Gallery gift shop in Canberra for the pop art exhibition a couple of years ago or so. I was looking for items to use with candles due to their purifying qualities and loved the look of this one. It has a variety of different coloured shapes that can be placed where the blue cube is which appealed to me for some reason (I have mislaid the other shapes unfortunately). It all comes apart and is held together with a centre screw, unfortunately the glass shield on top broke due to being knocked over in a move. Still looks good and works as a candle stick.
42	40	√	nas		transitive verb	Gundungurra	Robertson	2577	Chantal	Grech		This transitive verb came into my life in the Sydney Biennale of 1998, titled Everyday. It lay on the floor of Pier 2/3 amongst a number of other ordinary objects arranged in a square, the area bounded by a rope about waist high. Spectators were invited to fish an object out of the enclosure and were free to take it home. Having rested for two decades It now re-enters its ceremonial/art life and sits amongst other objects in another prescribed space, waiting.
43	41	√	nas		Library stool wheel	Eora	Darlinghurst	2010	Lea	Simpson
44	42	√	nas		mysterious wooden object	Eora	Marrickville	2204	Charles	Cooper		The object was given to me by a friend who I shared a studio with in Marrickville and she thought there was something about the aesthetic of this piece that might appeal to me given that I was working on shaped canvases. I have had it ever since. I have no idea what its original ourpose was or why it was made, but I like the shape of it. I think she made a good choice in giving it to me. It's like a talisman in whatever studio I am in.
45	43	√	nas		vintage blender	Eora	Padstow Heights	2211	Glenn	Locklee		This 1950s food blender has always been in the family, possibly a wedding gift to our parents, but none of the 4 siblings can ever remember it being used, despite what the fraying on the plug might suggest. It is an Anglo object for making milkshakes, and I grew up in a second generation Chinese family where most of our food was Asian. It is a cross cultural record of my Chinese-combined upbringing, unique as part of my history.
46	44	√	nas		Brehms Tierleben	Eora	Redfern NSW	2016	Anke	Stäcker		My object is one set of 6 volumes of Brehms Tierleben [The Life of Animals]. These books belonged to my grandfather in Hamburg, Germany, in the 1920s, and somehow my mother inherited them, and somehow I inherited them from her before I came to Australia, and have carried them around with me wherever I have lived, and am now donating them to WAYOUT-blp.
47	45	√	nas		Tibetan carpet	Eora	Hunters Hill NSW	2110	Lesley	Giovanelli		This is a carpet I wove in Dharamsalain in 1973, taught by Tibetan girls.
48	46	√	nas		sanded wood shape	Darug	Glenorie NSW	2157	Lynne	Eastaway		I found the object on a beach long ago. It is a man-made shape softened by a life in the sea, without any sharp edges or shiny surfaces, beautifully weathered by nature. I did make one small abstract picture of the shape years ago but have always kept the object with me ever since. I could never do it justice in replicating the shape in my own work. It was neither a parallelogram nor an organic shape. Just lovely in itself.
49	47	√	nas		kitchen scales	Eora Nation	Sydney	2000	Rolande	Souliere		Like many people, I live with a set of kitchen scales.
50	48		nas		candleholder	Eora Nation	Five Dock NSW 2046	2046	Alan	Spackman		I like this candelebra as a (potential) light-work.
51	49	√	√		metal turtle	Gumbaynggirr	Glenreagh NSW 2450	2450	Kate	Mackay		I was given this turtle by my sister over 30 years ago. It was glitzy and shiny and it went into the garden of my share house in Clovelly amongst the flowers ...It was forgotten about and left in the garden when I moved. Some 20 years later I saw the house listed for sale and went for a sticky beak. The turtle was still in the garden. It was corroded, full of cigarette butts and had lost a leg and I was so surprised to see it. I considered just taking it, when my ex-neighbour suggested I could ask the tenant could I have it back? (Much more civilised). And now it sits among my pot plants in the mid north coast of NSW.
52	50	√	nas		petrified wood	Eora	Campsie NSW 2194	2194	Robert	Daley		I think I found this piece of petrified wood as a child, probably in the NSW New England area, and have kept it ever since.
53	51	√AB	nas		wine bottle stand	Eora	Campsie NSW 2194	2194	Max	Daley		I like this object for its weird shape and use it as centerpiece in dinner parties—to hold bottles of wine.
54	52	√	nas		cigar box guitar	Eora	Leichhardt NSW	2040	Don	Graham		I made this cigar box guitar in acknowledgement of the handmade instruments originally crafted by Afro/American blues musicians
55	53	√	nas		bootmakers last	Eora	Leichhardt NSW	2040	Clare	Graham		We have kept this last as a legacy of a bygone era when families including ours repaired their own shoes.
56	54	√	nas		studio object	Eora	Surry Hills NSW 2010	2010	Madeleine	Preston		An object Madeleine always loved when she was alive, and had hanging in her studio, lent by her partner Anthony Bautovich.
57	55	√FM,LC2	nas		reflex hammer	Eora	Surry Hills NSW 2010	2010	Anthony	/Ngarigo Country		The reflex hammer is something I use when seeing a client for the first time as an osteopath & chiropractor.
58	56	√	nas		Mexican maraca	Eora	Newtown NSW 2042	2042	Aude	Parichot		A friend of mine brought this maraca from Mexico as a gift for me. I have had it for 7 years, it is one of my favourite objects, sound in movement, shifts the energy in the room, great instrument to share nice moments with friends in intimate settings.
59	57	√	nas		tasselled pillow	Eora	St Peters NSW	2044	Maryanne	Coutts		Very soft pillow embroidered by Maryanne in a stag pattern, and with tassels made by Joe's mother
60	58	√ JH	nas		Tardis - small Doctor Who Police Box	Darkinjung Country	Saratoga NSW	2251	Stephanie	Houghten		This Dr Who Police box (Tardis) held 3 Dr Who videos that contained the 14 part epic adventure “The Trial of the Time Lord.” This boxed set was produced in 1993 to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Dr Who, a BBC television series that first aired in 1963. These videos were kept and still avidly watched by my family.
61	59	√	nas		leather satchel	Dharug Country	Blackheath NSW	2785	Anthony	Cahill		I bought this bag long ago in Amsterdam and used it everyday for many years in London to carry too much in, and now it can't be used because its strap is broken, but I keep it with me here neverthless.
62	60	√	nas		triangular stone	Dharug Country	Dundas Valley	2117	Elke	Wohlfahrt		A triangular stone from the site of a famous site-specific artwork that Peter and I visited.
63	61	√	nas		roundish stone	Dharug Country	Dundas Valley 2117	2117	Peter	Wohlfahrt		A roundish stone from the site of a different famous site-specific artwork that Elke and I visited.
64	62	√TB			Instamatic camera	Eora	Sydney	2000	Damian	Dillon		This is a photographer's first camera, a Kodak Instamatic 233 camera, made in the 1960s - it's a real cutie . . . you can get film for it again also.
65	63	√	√		hair brushes and mirror set	Wiradjuri	Borenore NSW	2800	Jenny	Beach		This hair brush and mirror set has always been with me through 4 homes, since I was about 5 years old.
66	64	√MR	√		Aboriginal design lamp	Dabee Wiradjuri	Kandos	2848	Emma	Syme		This Aboriginal design lamp was a gift from my niece and now lives in my loungeroom.
67	65	√ LWG,AM	nas		coffee percolator	Gadigal and Muru-Ora-Dial Country	Maroubra? NSW	2035	Vilma	Bader		I bought the coffee percolator from a shop on Anzac Parade in Maroubra Junction. There was an article in the local paper about a new shop owner and his little shop full of curiosities. I was intrigued by the ‘larger than life character’ described and his ‘curiosity shop’. After using the percolator once, I decided it was on the tinny side and not exactly a Falcon enamel one which it uncannily resembles. It was relegated to the back of a kitchen cupboard. After I found out that the shop did not survive Covid, I fished it out of the cupboard and thought of using it as a vase or a pot plant. I placed it on a shelf in my studio where it sat waiting for a new life. The rest is history - the road trip to Kandos and a feature in Margaret’s art work.
68	66	√MR	√		blue and orange rug	Dharug and Gundungurra	Glenbrook NSW	2773	Kate	Swadling		This blue and orange rug belonged to my mother and I inherited it. She liked the Llama motifs.I keep it with me even through my recent downsizing.
69	67	√MR	√		relic carpet	Dharug and Gundungurra	Linden, NSW	2778	Ian	Milliss		My object is a worn-out moth-eaten Persian rug. It has enormous personal meaning to me because it was given to me by my friend Liz Fell, who was a really important feminist from the 1970s onwards. In the late 1970s when her father died, I heIped her clean out his house, and she gave me the carpet out of his study. She didnt want it because it reminded her of him. It was very worn out even then. Her father was also an accountant, and the Fell company had connections to shale mining in Nunes and possibly Kandos. So it's got a strange connection to Kandos, as Liz would always tell me when I was doing something in Kandos in recent years, that she would spend her school holidays up in a farm near Kandos that had some connection to her parents. Over the years it got even more worn from being used on the floor and moth-eaten from being stored in a cupboard.
70	68	√KS	√		blue brick	Wiradjuri	Lithgow	2790	Suzanne	Bartos		This blue brick is something I have always coveted.
71	69	√MR	√		crowbar	Wiradjuri	Lithgow	2790	Phil	Spark		A crowbar is an essential item for an engineer like me, and I can do without this one for these few months as I also have a second one.
72	70	√MR/RB	√		white vase	Wiradjuri	Lithgow NSW	2790	Leahlani	Johnson		This is a white vase from an op-shop I found about 4 years ago, that I always look at at home as the form is quite unusual and has inspired some of my artworks, which also often involve flowers.
73	71	√JB			McCabe ruler	Wiradjuri	Lithgow NSW	2790	Jan	Johnson		The object is a McCabe ruler that I inherited from my mother, who would use it when she attended night art classes, when she was not looking after her six children. I am passing it on to my artist-daughter.
74	72	√	√		Tihuana blanket	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Kandos NSW	2848	Alex	Wisser		My object is a Tihuana blanket, the last object remaining from that stage of my life on another continent, and now living with me in Kandos.
75	73	√	√		mixmaster	Wiradjuri	Napoleon's Reef	2795	Nic	Mason		Nic's mixmaster was gifted to her by her mother-in-law Annie, and was a useful member of the cooking crew until its demise when the metal mixers contorted. Not intent to join others in landfill the mixmaster then found itself in Nic’s studio painted into paintings within paintings with its kitchenalia cohort. See it in her paintings on http://www.nicmasonartist.com/
76	74	√TB	nas		railway sleeper pieces	Dharug	Kurrajong NSW	2758	Elia	Bosshard		This is Hawkesbury timber from a retaining wall in my parent's garden in Kurrajong. They have been replacing the wall. I want to salvage them and use them for an art project myself, and have brought to Kandos with Mimi Kind to lend to WAYOUT_blp.
77	75	√	√		keys	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Kandos NSW	2848	John	Cauchi		These are lent because we have a thing for keys in our house.
78	76	√	√		cedar pattern	Eora	Queenscliff	2096	Julia	Davis		This cedar pattern was found and collected at the Sydney Railway yards in 1983 when I first arrived in Sydney. I always appreciated the way it was made, the tree it was shaped from and its forgotten use. (Such wooden “patterns” of machine parts were popular among artists in Sydney in the 1980s. They were made by carpenters for machinists to then cast them in iron or brass etc, and then assemble into machines.)
79	77	√	nas		candle snuffer	Biripi	Wauchope NSW	2446	Finola	Moorhead		This object is for when the lights go out - me being cryptic about energy - wondering will the lights stay on? Or up on Herland I only had candles. The object itself was a present, and I have never used it because I pinch candles out. So its useless but handsome. I don't collect trinkets yet I keep presents.
80	78	√	√		pile of childhood books	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Kandos 2848	2848	Leanne	Wicks		These books have been kept since childhood because of the association they have with feeling safe in childhood.
81	79	√	√		polaroid camera	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Steve Sven	Rogers		My object is a polaroid land camera. It is a gift from a photographer and close friend of mine who lives in Maroubra in Sydney. It's a treasured object. I have loved having this in my studio. It has also been used as a prop for themed life drawing events as well. I just love analogue photography and the immediacy of being able to point and shoot at something and being able to get a print straight away. It's a classic piece and I love it.
82	80	√	√		piano accordian	Wiradjuri	BAthurst NSW	2795	Tracey	Callinan		My object is my Italian accordian I bought back in the 1980s. I had been living in Jerusalam and playing in a musical duo and we came back to England to work for a while and decided I would buy an accordian and learn to play that. So I spent the winter learning how to play accordian and then went back to Jerusalem and started performing and ended up going back to Greece, and Germany and The Netherlands, and England and performed all over those places then came back to Australia and ended up playing in a band with my accordian as well. And then the partner who I played with disappeared and I packed up my acordian and didnt touch it for 15 years. And then some years ago I pulled out my accordians again and started playing them again—in Bathurst.
83	81	√	√		ceramic lampstand	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Peter	Simmons		My object is a heavy pottery lamp stand made by my mother. She like others in the 1960s, did evening classes for pottery. She loved it. This actually the last piece I have of her pottery. I like the look of it. It is going to be the home for my mother's ashes. She passed away last year sadly, and I am going to find a way to use this as a home for mum's ashes into the future, and so she will always be there on the sideboard close at hand, watching over us.
84	82	√	√		handmade grass basket	Wiradjuri	Bathurst	2795	Cate	McCarthy		I believe this woven basket was made by the Arrernte women in the Central Desert and I got it because it belonged to my friend Suzie Lyons who lived at Alice Springs and worked with the Arrernte women quite a lot. I drove out there in June 2021 as she was very ill and I wanted to see her before she died. I got there the afternoon of the day she died. She had already died in the morning. It was sad to have missed seeing her but we had had a great life together with wonderful experiences and adventures and it was lovely to meet her friends out there. She didnt want a funeral so we all met in the bush for a get together afterwards. In the next few weeks, her son and friends put her possessions out for her friends to take what they wanted, and this grass basket was the object I chose.
85	83	√	√		highchair-ironing board transformer	Wiradjuri	Bathurst	2795	Vianne	Tourle		I am contributing a piece of what I call domestic art, that I know nothing about. It is a child's high chair that transforms into an ironing board. It is a very handy thing to have in the house, and its been made by someone, I think in a shed somewhere. It was retrieved from the Junction in Bathurst. It does work as an ironing board really well. I think its very dangerous as a children's high chair. It's anonymous but I do like domestic art, which is what I collect, or save, I bring it home to my place. Normally it's fabrics and fibres but I do have some bits of metal and timber and other bits that people have made and played with.
86	84	√	√		book & glasses	Wiradjuri	Bathurst	2795	Jane	Patterson		Quite a few years ago, we found these fancy ‘on the nose’ reading glasses on a rough track near Oberon Dam. Not being residents of Oberon and realising that their owner would be missing them, we handed them in to the local police. They were never claimed so were returned to us in due course - very kindly by Oberon police …. in a police vehicle…. to our home in Bathurst. Caused quite a stir in our quiet cul de sac!! (If you recognise them as yours please reclaim them!) We have many books in our home and I now need reading glasses…… I chose this one to represent them. The Lost Art of Gratitude by Alexander McCall Smith, is set in Edinburgh and it reminds me of time spent there as a child. I remember some of the places mentioned and some street names. He has written many books and every one I’ve read has reminded me that people matter and that everyday life is intriguing!
87	85	√	√		remnant yarn	Wiradjuri	Billywillinga	2795	Wendy	Alexander		The object I have chosen is a container holding the remnant yarn that I've been producing as I struggle with a newfound other object, a knitting machine, which I purchased 12 months ago thinking that I would be able to produce a lot of items from this knitting machine. But it is a bit of a battle between the machine and me, and this object is special, in that somehow by accident it holds the evidence which I have been trying to work out with this machine, and by chance it has some sort of aesthetic quality not related to the plastic container, but somehow the yarn showing through this clear, quite awful container, produces something interesting.
88	86	√	√		winkle picker shoes	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Megan	Rawlings		The winklepicker shoes belonged to my dad and he wore them while he dated my mum and wore them to dances in the late 50s and 60s. He wore them for many years until I acquired them, not sure how, in the early 80s, and they were part of my Dracula outfit, with cape and all. I used to dress up ocasionally for no reason except my own pleasure, and maybe that was inspired by my nan,who when I was really young, about 5, used to take me to see B-grade horror films at the Malachi Gilmore Hall in Oberon.
89	87	√	√		Vest with piggy buttons	Wiradjuri	Bathurst	2795	Tiff	Mason		My object stems back to when I was very young being taken to zoos and wildlife parks by my parents in England and I became obsessed with peccaries, which are small south American pigs. That became a broader childhood obsession with all things piggy, or at least that's what everyone thought, and I would often get piggy things as a kid. When I was about 14 my best friend at high school made me a paisley waistcoat which I actually tried on this afternoon and it still fits, amazingly and instead of ordinary buttons they were buttons shaped as pigs, and that was the piggy reference and its just before i turned 15 when my family and I moved out to Australia. So its one of the few things that connects me to England, in terms of possessions anyway.
90	88	√	√		Mass Kit	Wiradjuri	Bathurst	2795	Steve	Sinn		I am a Jesuit Priest and this object is my Mass kit, a globite luggage case. Some might be familiar with it from school days when we took our books and lunch in a globite bag. It's still very useful and I use it to put all my things that I need to celebrate mass in people's homes, or when I am going to celebrate funerals or other places. There is bread and wine, the fundamentals, and the scripture and the ritual prayers. There's also vestments, candle and lighter, matches, and all of them have a significance for me. They have often come from friends and there is a chalice that is used by Jewish friends at the chabbat celebration they have on Fridays. Every object in this kit has a significance for me.
91	89	√	√		Crocheted internal organs in bag	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Tracey	Sorensen		This object is a bag of crocheted internal organs which I completed between diagnosis and surgery in 2014. I had primary peritoneal cancer which is closely related to ovarian cancer, and at the time I wasn't quite sure where all my internal organs were in my body. I couldn't have told you where the spleen was exactly, or where th pancreas was placed. So just crocheting all these organs gave me a sense of where they sat and their basic shapes and it was also a very calm, quiet distracting yet pertinent activity that I could do while I was going through chemotherapy and awaiting quite massive surgery. In the end I had a few of these internal organs removed entirely, others were nipped and tucked, so not all of these organs that are represented here are still alive, some have gone but the whole assemblance of the organism, otherwise known as me, is still here as a whole, so the whole story has a happy ending,
92	90	no	√		Dalek	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Yvonne	Sorensen		This dalik object was made by my grandson, Max, when he was 10 years old and during the time I taught art at adult education. I am lending the dalik because seeing anyone being creative gives me great joy.
93	91	√	√		green/gold circular 'box'	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Mish	Stockwell		My object is a box, even though it's a circle, a little green and gold trinket with a lid and a hole in the bottom. So I think at some point it was probably—if it is an antique which I dont think it is because of the cheap paint, but it might be a copy of an antique— where they would have put opium balls inside because it is not useful for anything, other than a little bit of decoration. It was given to me by a very good friend of mine called Andy in London when I lived there, and he and I had a very funny relationship, all I ever did was laugh with him. So telling the story of my little box would have made him laugh as well. But he gave it to me as a farewell gift and it has always appeared in every home, and there are many of them, just sits there, and is much loved by me because it was a gift from him, and whenever anyone picks it up it always makes me laugh like he did because the first thing they do is pull the lid off and stick their finger in it which always makes me laugh, cause its like a dirty joke, and that's what Andy and I had together, a lot of little cheeky dirty jokes.
94	92	√	√		Empty metal trunk	Wiradjuri	Bathurst NSW	2795	Daryl & Kara	Dinger KIng		This object is an empty metal trunk lent by Daryl Dinger and Kara King. It is one of many metal trunks they have inherited, the other 7 or so are not empty but contain huge amounts of mostly everyday historical material inherited from Daryl's family, an historians minefield.
95	93	√	√		cream brick	Wiradjuri	Bathurst	2795	Jock	Alexander		My object is a cream coloured house brick from Bathurst Bricks, who have been making bricks in Bathurst since the town began. There is only one white clay brick pit in Bathurst. Its over the back of Mt Panorama Wahluu, and I re-discovered this through a bit of daring-do, and realised that this brick is made from white clay which the Wiradjuri call ochre. So the cream brick houses you see around Bathurst are made from white ochre, the sacred ochre of the Wiradjuri.
96	94	√	√		jar of bread tags		Bathurst NSW	2795	June	Golland		My object is a jar full of bread tags which began when I first moved out of home and ate my first loaf of bread and I guess I didnt really know what to do with the bread tags so i put it into a jar and then the jar has followed me through all the homes I have lived in and continued to acquire bread tags during that time.
97	95	√	√		Woman ashtray	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Kandos NSW	2848	Georgina	Pollard		I have had this ashtray since a child when my great aunt gave it to me. Though the moving leg has been lost, it has important associations because it seemed at the time to be given with much needed mutual understanding, even though now I see that that may not have been intended.
98	96	√	√		flowers candelabra	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Kandos NSW	2848	Robyn	Webster		I set up the Botanical Room in my Hanami Place in Kandos because a botanical context is very important to me, and this flowers-candelabra belongs there.
99	97	√	nas		Blue rope	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Portland NSW	2847	Harrie	Fasher		This blue rope is always with me, used for walking our dogs Bird, Mate and Dodge on one lead, or for tieing on random loads.
100	98	no	√		Garlic	Dabee, Wiradjuri	Bogee	2849	Ian	Leonard		Autumn at Dingo Ridge