Our Eltham — Nerina Lascelles

Eltham Cemetery and Victorian Christmas Bush

Eltham Trestle Bridge with Red Box

Election Day and Everlasting Daisy

Old Bridge in Lower Eltham and Silver Wattle

Shillinglaw Cottage and Cut-leaf Daisy

Pioneer Hut in Research and Pale Vanilla Lily

The Chapel, Montsalvat and Black She Oak

Watsons Hotel and Clematis aristata

Miniature Railway and Lomandra

Great Hall Montsalvat and Narrow-leaved Peppermint

Monash Bridge and Hedge Wattle

Eltham Primary School, Headmasters House and Hardenbergia

Rob Roy Hillclimb and Golden Wattle

Montsalvat Pool and Long-leaf Box

Mud Brick Making and Egg and Bacon

Gold Mining and Red Box Gum

Eltham Copper Butterfly, Sweet Bursaria and Sculpture in Alistair Knox Park

Dunmoochin and Rosella Spider Orchid

Edendale Farm and Poa

Diamond Creek Mine and Blue Pincushion

St Margaret’s Church and Chocolate Lily

Eltham Library and Prickly Tea-tree

Lyon Bros Garage and Early Nancy

Skipper House and Nodding Greenhood

Orchards and Bees

Eltham Barrel and Running Postman

Research Aqueduct with Hooded Caladenia Orchid

Horse Ploughing Field and Kangaroo Grass in Kangaroo Ground

Train Carriage and Red Ironbark

The Confluence, Scar Tree and Manna Gum

OUR ELTHAM – Artistic Recollections

From fire to flood, from gold mining to wheat harvesting, from the horse and buggy to the motor car and from Shillinglaw Cottage to the Eltham Library, ‘Our Eltham – Artistic Recollections’ is a celebration of life in our Shire since the opening of the Eltham Cemetery more than 150 years ago.

Eltham, a leafy suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne is where Nerina has spent most of her life. Depicting scenes of life in and around Eltham this collection offers us a deeper connection to our area through a series of visual narratives of our past, our environment and our community. Historic photographs ignite an impression of what our forefathers may have witnessed during their lifetimes as pioneers before, us while indigenous flowers and plants symbolically connect us to life and nature in our local area.

The Eltham Cemetery Trust commissioned this project as part of its ongoing vision to offer our community a fresh and unique relationship to the Cemetery.

Our Eltham is a collection of 31 panels that were collaboratively created by artist Nerina Lascelles and ceramicist Linda Detoma. The associated landscape was designed and constructed by Leigh Wykes with ironwork by Neil Carter. All contributors to this installation are residents of the Eltham area.

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