Dream show
BENDIGO’S residential Strategy will be reviewed because of greater than expected growth.
The State Government has announced a grant of $50,000 to carry out the review.
The review is needed because, according to the State Government, 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
Regional Development Parliamentary Secretary Damian Drum made the announcement this morning.
Mr Drum said the Bendigo Residential Strategy Review would deliver greater community and investor certainty, helping the region grow.
“The Bendigo Residential Development Strategy was adopted in 2004 and is currently being audited because of the faster than anticipated growth that has occurred in Bendigo in recent years,” he said.
“Strong residential growth has many flow-on economic benefits and having a clear framework for future development will position Greater Bendigo City Council to undertake more detailed, place-based planning in the future.”
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said about 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
The Residential Strategy impacts directly on where and how property developments use “infill” parcels of land, range of housing styles and also on housing affordability.
“This project will review the strategy, assess current and estimated land supply and demand and consider various legislative and policy changes,” Mr Ryan said,
“It will also consider the latest demographic data and establish a new strategic framework to guide the long-term residential growth of Greater Bendigo.
“The project will result in a revised residential strategy that will give developers, the community and service providers greater surety and confidence about where land can be developed for residential purposes, and that sufficient land is available to accommodate the City of Greater Bendigo’s future growth.”
Mr Ryan said a contemporary strategic planning framework was essential to the economic development of a large regional centre like Bendigo.
“Clearly identifying future growth options and supporting infrastructure needs will enable the Greater Bendigo City Council and other infrastructure providers to plan their capital works programs well in advance,” he said.
“Identifying long-term growth areas will enable the council and other service authorities to start planning for the delivery of services, thereby minimising the lag time between when residential development occurs and when the services need to be in place.”
| Bendigo Weekly | 06-May-2011 1am
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Edward Weston, Nude, 1936
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When I heard American Dreams was coming to Bendigo Art Gallery I was a little shocked. In my own backyard, pictures from some of my all-time art heroes.
Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, Weegee, Harry Callaghan…The list doesn’t stop there. Give or take one or two, about every American photographer who has made a significant contribution to the evolution of photography as an art form, is part of this exhibition.
Over the years at various galleries I’ve been lucky enough to view photos by some of these photographers. But never all in one place, together.
My love affair with photography – particularly American – started young when I wrote an essay about Harry Callaghan, and how his love for wife Eleanor permeated his beautiful black and white pictures.
Later Diane Arbus captured my heart. Her glorious crazy-gaze medium-format pictures startled me into submission, equal-parts compassionate and dispassionate towards her subjects.
Then came Weegee’s grotesques, so funny I couldn’t look away. So here they all are, in Bendigo.
I’m not disappointed. Curator Tansy Curtin has done a very good job curating American Dreams.
She knows her stuff, including not only significant names but significant images as well.
As you might expect, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Nipoma, California (1936) is in it, alongside work from other Depression Era greats, Walker Evans among them.
There’s a great story about Evans’s photos being rejected by Fortune Magazine after being commissioned to document Alabama families during the 1930s.
His pictures were just too damn depressing. How dare he see things like struggle and poverty so clearly.
On the wall dedicated to “The Photograph As Social Document” you get the picture: clearly America was a tough place to live at that time.
The rest of the exhibition is also divided into themes: Abstraction and Experimentation (see Man Ray and Edward Weston’s erotic Peppers); Photography In Colour (Curtin fave William Eggelston gets a guernsey with Untitled from the series Graceland – an American flag embedded in a sea of flowers at Elvis’s Memphis palace – Eggelston being one of the giants of colour photography); The Contemporary Narrative (Mary-Ellen Mark’s abject street-gaze next to Nan Goldin’s profane visual diary). And on it goes.
American Dreams isn’t simply a roll call of American photography superstars; Curtin’s trump card is that she includes many lesser-known women photographers from this rich 20th century history – those who so often get overlooked for their male counterparts, often their partners and husbands as it turns out.
A number of names I hadn’t heard before, Imogen Cunningham being one.
“Women have played such an important role – and they have different interpretations of similar subjects,” Tansy explained.
“You look at the photos Cunningham took of the street – compared to say Gary Winogrand’s. With Winogrand you get the sense that he is on outside looking in.
“With Cunningham it’s the opposite; she’s on the inside looking out. It’s important to see that.”
One image stands out the most to me – one I had not seen before, but by a photographer whose work I love: Lee Friedlander.
Galax (1962) is the image of a distraught boy’s face on a TV set at the foot of a bed in a desolate hotel room.
It screams the power of photography.
American Dreams: 20th Century Photography From George Eastman House, until July 10 at Bendigo Art Gallery.
BENDIGO’S residential Strategy will be reviewed because of greater than expected growth.
The State Government has announced a grant of $50,000 to carry out the review.
The review is needed because, according to the State Government, 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
Regional Development Parliamentary Secretary Damian Drum made the announcement this morning.
Mr Drum said the Bendigo Residential Strategy Review would deliver greater community and investor certainty, helping the region grow.
“The Bendigo Residential Development Strategy was adopted in 2004 and is currently being audited because of the faster than anticipated growth that has occurred in Bendigo in recent years,” he said.
“Strong residential growth has many flow-on economic benefits and having a clear framework for future development will position Greater Bendigo City Council to undertake more detailed, place-based planning in the future.”
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan said about 40 per cent of the forecast growth between 2006 and 2031 had already been realised.
The Residential Strategy impacts directly on where and how property developments use “infill” parcels of land, range of housing styles and also on housing affordability.
“This project will review the strategy, assess current and estimated land supply and demand and consider various legislative and policy changes,” Mr Ryan said,
“It will also consider the latest demographic data and establish a new strategic framework to guide the long-term residential growth of Greater Bendigo.
“The project will result in a revised residential strategy that will give developers, the community and service providers greater surety and confidence about where land can be developed for residential purposes, and that sufficient land is available to accommodate the City of Greater Bendigo’s future growth.”
Mr Ryan said a contemporary strategic planning framework was essential to the economic development of a large regional centre like Bendigo.
“Clearly identifying future growth options and supporting infrastructure needs will enable the Greater Bendigo City Council and other infrastructure providers to plan their capital works programs well in advance,” he said.
“Identifying long-term growth areas will enable the council and other service authorities to start planning for the delivery of services, thereby minimising the lag time between when residential development occurs and when the services need to be in place.”
