Sita Devi created Sohrai Ledra. A ‘ledra’ is a small quilt made by stitching straight into layers of recycled cotton saris – as if constructing a drawing. 

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Infinity Billboard was originally a site-specific photographic work displayed at Billboard Park, on the corner of Gertrude and Smith Streets in Fitzroy, as part of the 2004 Midsumma Festival Program. 

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This painting is part of John Kelly’s early iconic cow series which ranged from 1992 – 1995, and were inspired by the work of artist Sir William Dobell. 

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Created by artist Be Free, the Lennox Street Mural depicts a bamboo forest. 

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Leonid is true to Rona Green’s distinctive style of figurative artwork, using themes of anthropomorphism and subculture to create eclectic and endearing characters.

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Guitar displays Victor Rubin’s passion for mixed media and creating surfaces which become landscapes within themselves. 

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Gitmo Bay Souvenirs. Closing Down Sale, All Stock Must Go! is part of a series looking at ‘Gitmo Bay’. It is imagining how it might be if you were to go there as a tourist and take home a souvenir.

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This heritage-listed mural on Johnston Street in Collingwood was painted by the late New York artist Keith Haring in 1984.

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The Richmond Station Whale Mural Project was completed in early March 2013. The approximately 40 metre long mural took five days on site to paint.

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Mr Poetry depicts poet and music journalist Adrian Rawlins (1938 – 2001). 

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The Promised Land – Moving was photographed on the banks of the Yarra River. The visual metaphors of water, shore and an unfinished boat reference themes of migration and settlement.

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In the Chinese Restaurant Series, Bronek Kozka explore his own remembered moments of those family meals. Chinese Restaurant Series: The Chef - photograph – 95 x 95cm unframed (2011). 

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Hare ii, one of an ongoing series of animal drawings, examines the fragile relationship between the human race and other animal species, as well as exploring the endangered and vulnerable through the animal gaze.

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In 1889, Tom Roberts produced a ceremonial yet elegant portrait of Henry Walker, Mayor of Collingwood, which is now one of the most prized and celebrated works in Council’s Art & Heritage Collection.

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This triptych utilises domestic materials such as heritage coloured house paint, bitumen paint and domestic household bleach.

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Peter D. Cole ranked as one of Australia’s senior and most renowned contemporary sculptors. Cole was commissioned in 2009 to produce Untitled, which is located outside the Collingwood Leisure Centre.   

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Snail explores the notion of drawing with light, using the curved neon tube to create the shape of the snail. The snail is a motif used frequently in Euan Heng’s work. 

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We Love You Back appears to encircle the Abbotsford/Collingwood Maternal Health Care Centre with a crocheted baby blanket, representing the love and appreciation of generations of local families who have relied on maternal health nurses for practical advice and reassurance.

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This large scale image transforms a hand-coloured photocopy into a vision of Sister Muriel Peck, as a guardian spirit for the City of Yarra Maternal and Child Health Service.

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Maternal and Child Health Services provide a lifeline to first time mothers and fathers, supporting them when they first return home with their newborn baby and throughout the steep learning curve as they adapt to their new family unit. The simple line drawings of this work by Dennis, combines the imagery of babies, mothers breastfeeding, fathers playing with children and associated objects, to represent this bond.

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