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Prime Ministers Avenue, Ballarat

Almost by accident I got a job to do the Bob Hawke bust in the Ballarat Prime Ministers Aveneue. Five more commissions followed. I had no pre-conception about what the heads should look like – except they were to be serious, not funny.

Hawke

Howard

Keating

Rudd

Fraser

Gillard

Mungo MacCallum tells the story of the Prime Ministers Avenue in the introduction to his amusing and pithy book “The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely”. Read it here

My half-figure portrait of Robert Clarke (1841 – 1883); popular trade unionist and politician, holding a copy of The Courier, the Ballarat paper of which he was co-founder and owner.