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Like you, I had an inordinate number of plans cancelled last year: trips interstate and overseas, family reunions and all sorts of other fun events. One main thing 2020 taught me was to be a little more relaxed, and to live in the moment. Our Olympians had even more reason to be frustrated with cancellations last year, having worked for four years with one ambition: to compete.

While we don’t yet know if Tokyo will go ahead this year, our cover star Morgan Mitchell is taking it all in her stride. It was a pleasure getting to know her in Peter Barrett’s story. ●

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egendary Australian artist Ken Done still paints with plenty of child-like wonder at the age of 80 and sees no reason to alter what’s worked for the past 40 years.

Best known for capturing a cheery Australia in the 1980s, Done liked to paint a sun-kissed Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Great Barrier Reef and our flora and fauna in pastel-hued abundance.

This month Done joins First Nations artist Reko Rennie and Beci Orpin to judge The Design Files Art

Kids Award presented by Honan.

Aimed at those aged between five and 16, the award asks the next generation of artists what Australia means to them.

“Anytime you see children’s drawings, it tells you a great deal about their attitude to the world, their parents and their experience of living in Australia. They create the most enthusiastic drawings,” Done says. “It’s those early years when you make your mark with incredible freedom. It’s something I would

always desire to have and to think there’s something childlike in what I do every day.”

Done worked in advertising in Sydney, New York and London long before he became a full-time artist.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was behind advertising campaigns for clients like Bacardi Rum – a commercial filmed underwater in the Caribbean was his idea.

His Campari ad won the Best Cinema Commercial Award at Cannes in 1969 – working with Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor before they became The Goodies. He also worked on The Beatles’ White Album campaign during his time in London.

Done became a full-time artist in 1980, aged 40, with his first solo exhibition. It was thanks to a phone conversation with racing car driver Peter Brock while Done was in Vanuatu in the late 1960s that inspired him to swap his executive career for one as an artist instead.

“Peter was passionate about racing, and that’s when I realised I don’t wake up wanting to do advertising. I took a flight to Sydney and quit the next day,” he says.

Done took the beige out of Australia and opened our eyes to colour – a compliment he plays down.

“The colour was always there. It’s there in every marigold, gerbera and poinsettia. People respond to colour ... I always loved it. I still do, and it’s the best way to communicate how you feel about something,” Done says.

His entrepreneurial skill was ahead of its time; moving into merchandise, clothing and homewares, he took his art to the masses in ways beyond the gallery space. From doona covers to T-shirts and mugs, you could barely turn a corner or enter a souvenir store without spotting a Ken Done.

“The ’80s were one of the most optimistic times in this country; we won the America’s Cup and had a lot of commercials extolling the virtues of Australia, we [had] the World Series Cricket, the Aussie movies doing well overseas – all of these

things combined made us feel very confident as Australia and our place in the world,” he says.

“The merchandise we did in Australia should always be thought of as design. We made duvet covers, bedspreads, board shorts. These design pieces reached a wide audience, and it was all thanks to the wide distribution. I worked with some well-known companies, and people were responding to it. It all had to do with timing.”

Age has not wearied him – in fact, Done says he’s painting his best work yet. His morning ritual includes

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Artist Ken Done, left, will be a judge for The Design Files Art Kids Award presented by Honan.

feeding the magpies and rainbow lorikeets before a quick stroll to his studio to see yesterday’s paintings in a new light. That’s followed by a beach walk and swim that keeps him in good health.

“Mornings are the most productive for me in the studio,” he says.

“What I do is selfish in a sense. I only paint what pleases me. At 80, I am a better painter than I was at 40.

People are very interested in finding and collecting those early works from that first exhibition, but it’s the later stuff that really reflects where I’m at.

“I hope I have another 10 to 15 years in me yet.” ● ● tdfkidsartawards.com

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RACING for SUCCESS COVER STORY Despite a whole lot more

attention, Morgan Mitchell is taking Olympic preparation in her stride.

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espite everything, Morgan Mitchell is feeling calm. When the Tokyo Olympics were postponed last year, the 800-metre runner “got sad for about three days”, then put things in perspective, spent precious time with her family and refocused her goals.

Now, with the Olympics tantalisingly close but uncertainty still circling due to the pandemic, she is prepared for whatever happens. “It’s one of those things where you’ll just have to wait and see,” she says. “If they do go ahead, great, we’ll go with all guns blazing. If not, we’ll just have to go to plan B and have other goals for this year with the 800.”

Mitchell, who grew up in Werribee, became an Olympian at 21 when she represented Australia in the 400 metres and 4x400-metre relay at Rio in 2016. In 2019, she switched to the 800 metres and has rapidly improved – and is now more than a good chance to represent Australia in that event if Tokyo does go ahead as planned.

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“No two sessions are the same, so you do get a lot of variety,” she says. “Some days, they’ll focus just on strength, other days cardio, some days, it’s a full mix. And it’s the fact that you get to do it with other like-minded people, which I really enjoy.”

For Mitchell, training is a daily menu of running, boxing, gym and Pilates. About a month from a big race, she begins easing off (which for her means running six to eight kilometres in a day instead of 12) in order to rest her body and, hopefully, “slingshot” her way to a personal best.

The day of the race is a different affair. She likes to wake up, go out for coffee with her mates and have a huge breakfast. “Honestly, I’ll order everything on the menu,” she laughs. After some time sitting in the sun or playing basketball, she’ll eat lunch and then take a nap around 3pm. Then she’ll put on a movie – Kill Bill and Rush Hour are among her favourites – and get ready for the bus trip to the stadium while the film plays in the

“You can see people tanning, playing beach volleyball. I usually grab a coffee from Rock Paper Scissors and just get on my way, listening to music.

Honestly, I’m a very simple person. That makes me so happy; just a half-hour walk along the esplanade.”

Living in Port Melbourne is, in some ways, a return to her childhood. “I’ve always wanted to live there,” she says. “[My sisters and I] spent most of our time in Port Melbourne as kids because we went to school around the corner at Galilee [Regional Catholic Primary School].” Mitchell’s mum (and “ultimate hero”) Lois used to work nearby at a luxury car dealership, and, after school, the girls were trusted to walk there by themselves and help out cleaning cars until mum was finished work. As a single parent, Lois would also drive her three daughters across Victoria to various sporting commitments and encourage their interests. “She didn’t have a lot of resources to make it happen, but somehow, she just made it happen,” says Mitchell.

“At the end of the day, while the training is getting done when it’s scheduled, nothing else really matters.”

But her success hasn’t been limited to the track.

Now 26, chances are you already know her from The Game Changers, a 2019 Netflix documentary produced by James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger (among many other big Hollywood names) about athletes who eat strictly plant-based diets.

You’ll also find Mitchell’s face and name on social media endorsing a swag of top-name brands, including Tissot, Clinique, Maybelline, Ford Ranger and Jaggad, a Melbourne sportswear company about to release a dedicated line of clothing.

In March, she became the first Olympic athlete ambassador for F45 Training, an Australian fitness company that started in Sydney and now has more than 2000 studios in more than 60 countries.

Mitchell, who began going to the 45-minute video-presented fitness workouts with her sister, loves the system’s intensity and versatility.

background. “It’s very relaxed,” says Mitchell. “I get nervous [before the race], but I try to be in the moment because it’s like, what’s the point in being nervous when you’re not even at the track yet?”

Her ability to conjure calm is no accident, though.

A few years ago, Mitchell had to navigate some personal mental health challenges. She sought professional help from a mindfulness coach and was able to turn her situation around. Her advice for others battling mental health issues is to seek out a professional and stick with the program.

“I found that meditation and slowing down helps a lot. I meditate every single day. And just being in the moment has helped me a lot.”

When she’s not on the training track in Newport, you might find Mitchell at her favourite cafe, Au.79 Cafe in Abbotsford (“the best coffee and their food is incredible”) or walking along the beach on a sunny day in Port Melbourne, where she lives.

“I look up to her a lot. Honestly, [she’s] a 10-outof-10 woman.”

But despite her increasing public profile and being recognised from time to time on the street, Mitchell draws on advice from her mum (“be true to yourself”) as well as her manager and isn’t fazed by the extra attention.

“I think I’m just so relaxed, and I don’t really notice it anyway,” she says. “At the end of the day, while the training is getting done when it’s scheduled, nothing else really matters.

“If it does ramp up and things do get hectic, I’ll probably have to sit down and sort a few things out.

But for the time being, my life is very much normal.

It’s quite nice.” ●

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A sweet slice of comfort Natalie Paull’s Beatrix bakery feeds both body and soul.

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en years ago baker Natalie Paull took a risk, signing the lease to a petite corner shop in North Melbourne. On her first day she made three cakes, 10 sandwiches and some star-shaped cocoa biscuits. Selling the treats were herself and a friend, sharing a pair of tongs between them.

“Being so risk-averse, I only bought one pair of tongs,” says Paull. “My friends filled the store and were buying cake, but then all of these other people started coming down and my friend Sharon was like, “We don’t know these people, I think they are real customers,’ and my friends had to hightail it out.”

By the end of the first day it was obvious: Paull had to buy some more tongs.

That little cake shop on the corner today needs no introduction. It’s Beatrix, and this year marks its 10th birthday. Over the years, it has grown from a neighbourhood secret to one of Melbourne’s most beloved bakehouses.

On their open days, the daily cake and sandwich list is published on Instagram and shortly after lunch almost everything is sold. When Paull increases the production of cakes to keep up with demand, they continue to sell out. There seems to be no accurate formula to keep up with just how many loyal Beatrix fans are out there.

“It is wildly exhilarating to hear that a slice of cake can bring so much joy.”

“There was a beautiful slow growth to the business, which I liked because nothing was ever forced,” Paull says. “My business mantra has always been, we’re on a corner in North Melbourne and if you like what we do please come visit us because we really like what we do.”

There are now 15 in the Beatrix family, and the bakehouse has also grown to encompass an off-site commercial kitchen a short stroll up the road.

Paull says she made her first buttercake when she was seven, and knew then that this was what she wanted to do for the rest of her life.

As a child, she’d regularly bake from the Women’s Weekly cookbooks, including a favourite Violet

Crumble cheesecake. Leaving school, she was quick to find footing in commercial kitchens, then cofounded a wholesale baking business, which she ran for five years before taking a break from cooking.

Two years passed, and “my husband and I knew I had to give it another shot and find a way to make food that makes me happy in the world”.

It ended up being cake and community that made Paull happy. A slice of Beatrix cake becomes more than just that when her customers tell her it’s offered comfort in the ups and downs of life.

“I can’t believe what it means to people. It is wildly exhilarating to hear that a slice of cake can bring so much joy.” ●

The demand for Beatrix cakes is insatiable.

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hen Hugh van Cuylenburg wowed the Mentone Grammar community in 2016 with his presentations about the power of The Resilience Project, it invited a natural next step for the school’s wellbeing focus, which was already underpinned by Yale University’s RULER Program up to the end of year 9.

“We looked at our year 10 and VCE students and felt they needed something different,” Mentone Grammar’s director of student wellbeing, Cameron Lancaster, says. “The Resilience Project fitted with what we were looking to do – it’s tenets of gratitude, empathy and mindfulness fitted with the direction we wanted to go.”

Van Cuylenburg’s inspiration for The Resilience Project was time spent in northern India, living

The simple art of connecting alongside people who had little yet were gloriously happy. At Mentone Grammar, the connection it fosters as part of the curriculum – through groups of 16-17 students engaging with their mentors in roll call each morning, taking part in activities with mindfulness and gratitude built in, and through longer weekly sessions for deeper exploration – has been powerful at a disjointed time.

“During COVID, the connections our staff and students had with each other were a reason we feel we coped with remote learning as well as we did,” Lancaster says. “It was those touch bases‚ the conversations, little things like, ‘We’re going to have a pizza lunch’, and everyone was online cooking their own pizza. We had‚ ‘Red Day’, ‘Funny Hat Day’, all sorts of things.

“They might sound simple, but if you can get the students buying into them, they see that others are still doing the same things they’re doing. When students feel like they’re acting in isolation or are literally on their own, that’s when we worry more about their mental health. When they’re checking in and maintaining that sense of connection, that was very, very important for us last year.”

Rupert Saunders, a senior clinical advisor with Headspace, says the simple act of connecting can be

a powerful tool in trying to calm the upheaval caused by the pandemic and the uncertainty it has created about the future.

“Have conversations, frank and open, about how they’re feeling,” he suggests, an approach that can combat anxiety both at home and in the classroom.

“You might get shut down, but you need to say, ‘That’s cool. I’ll come back to you when you’re feeling more comfortable. I’m here for you.’ Give that message of love and support.”

At Methodist Ladies’ College, teaching hope and optimism at such a time is helped by concentrating on the everyday things that can be controlled and steering students away from uncertainty.

MLC’s director of student wellbeing, Lisa Gatliff, highlights the importance of creating certainty where possible‚ in building a routine around healthy

“It was really pleasing to see how many students took up their own individual ways of helping others in the community.”

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eating, exercise and that vital act of connection‚ and finding positivity and happiness in helping others.

“We have a strong community service focus, on doing something beyond yourself,” she says. “It was really pleasing [in 2020] to see how many students took up their own individual ways of helping others in the community, doing things like knitting blankets for disadvantaged children in South Africa, or doing artworks for residents in aged care.

“For many of them, that sense of focusing outward was something they could do and be in control of.”

Recognising that visual contact between teachers and students was important for learning and wellbeing, every MLC student had a designated teacher to oversee their wellbeing. The school worked hard on maintaining these one-on-one catch-ups last year and has continued it since the return to face-to-face learning.

The idea that every student has multiple support networks around them – classroom and wellbeing teachers, counsellors, co-ordinators, nurses – is strongly promoted. Gatliff sees young people who have engaged with these networks like never before and is optimistic about the resilience that such engagement has helped build. “I think that’s a message of hope for the future,” she says. ●

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EDUCATION & INNOVATION Engaging in co-curricular activities and clubs has a multitude of benefits.

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he late British educationist and creativity expert, Sir Ken Robinson, defined in his book The Element a particular point at which natural talent meets personal passion, leading in turn to achievement at the highest levels.

“It’s a fantastic book that talks about how finding your passion really helps you find yourself,” says Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School’s head of senior school and deputy principal Davina McClure.

“I think students do find their element when they have that choice of being involved in a cocurricular activity.”

At Ivanhoe, there are more than 30 clubs and activities available to students, in addition to performing arts groups and sports teams.

“We have more than 20 ensembles that include choirs, chamber groups, orchestras and bands,” McClure says.

As part of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV), Ivanhoe’s students have the opportunity to compete in weekday inter-school sports that include softball, badminton, volleyball, indoor cricket and hockey, with the school also offering its own sports program, which takes in different experiences like circuit training, aerobics and fencing. Those who might not be athletically inclined also have a range of other options, from areas as diverse as coding and chess, to gardening and knitting.

“Co-curricular activities are significant for enriching students on an emotional, cognitive, physical and social level,” says Megan Fritsch.

As president of the Career Industry Council of Australia, Fritsch knows the value of such activities when it comes time for students to enter the workforce.

“The rewards of co-curricular activities in schools have been researched pretty well and it is now ascertained that students who participate in these activities show better academic results, stronger relationships in schools and are more likely to lead a healthy and active lifestyle,” she says.

“Experiences and skills acquired through these cocurricular activities make students proactive and prepared for their future endeavours,” she adds, which is why they are so appealing to employers when they see them on CVs. For former Wesley College student Caity Price, this was certainly her experience. Now 24, she is working at the Australian Securities and Investments

Beyond the classroom Commission as a market surveillance analyst, having graduated with arts/law degrees and been admitted as a solicitor by the Supreme Court of Victoria. While attending Wesley from kindergarten through to year 12, she played violin in the orchestra and was on the school’s softball and skiing teams.

“In some ways, I think being involved in cocurricular things took some pressure off doing well purely in academics at school,” she reflects.

“It was nice to get away from studying and get involved in school in a capacity that wasn’t just about class work.”

Discovering a passion for these sports, she also joined clubs outside of school, which opened up further social and travel opportunities. It also helped her transition into tertiary education.

“Especially at uni, I played a lot of softball, and went to UniGames, which enabled me to get involved in campus life in ways I otherwise wouldn’t have,” she says. This included founding a softball club, which led to an ANU Sport board membership.

Looking back now, she can see so many other benefits that set her up for success. Not only did playing sports teach her about “hard work, diligence and empathy in understanding people from different backgrounds”, she says she also acquired a suite of professional skills such as “managing people, following through with a strategic purpose, creating both long and short term direction of an entity, managing logistics and finances”.

“Without a doubt, I could not have gone without this on my resume when applying for grad jobs.” ●

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Navigating the real world STEM subjects provide opportunities for critical thinking and problem solving.

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icah Wilkins doesn’t remember the acronym STEM being used in his school days, which ended in the early 2000s, around the time it was popularised. Now, as head of digital learning and innovation at Camberwell Girls Grammar School, the catch-all term for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics is part of his everyday world.

Yet for all of the advances made in how science and technology is taught in the classroom, the principle behind STEM learning remains the same as when Wilkins took on an elective called electronics in year 9 and used a soldering iron, among other tools, to construct a small recording device. (He laughs, recalling that his never actually worked, while another classmate’s exploded.)

“The thinking then is not dissimilar to what we’re trying to get our students to do now,” he says. “We’re working with real-world problems; we’re using tools of the trade; we are asking big questions and being curious with our learning.

“It’s that whole process of problem-solving, tinkering, playing, taking risks and trying different things to see if they work. That’s the essence of what we’re trying to do in STEM programs at school.”

Dean Pearman, head of digital learning and practice at Wesley College, agrees that for all of the wonderful learning environments that school Makerspaces and STEM laboratories now offer students, to see them as purely the domain of the technologically minded is to miss a crucial part of the picture.

At Wesley, digital technology studies sit under the holistic-approach-to-learning umbrella that envelops every class and subject, from prep to year 12. It recognises the importance of technology in the life of the community and is used not simply to design and build amazing things but to embed the necessary skills in cyber safety and in digital privacy and wellbeing that will help young people thrive after walking out through the school gate for the last time.

“There are misconceptions around STEM and what it means,” Pearman says. “When you start to

“Yes, you will learn some of those techy skills that are important. But underpinning that is a way of seeing and navigating the world that is more important.” MICAH WILKINS suggest that you have to be innately good at technology to be involved in STEM spaces and labs, you’re missing a whole range of other avenues in which students can work in that very same space.

“Our approach is, ‘You’re a maker’‚ you can be a baker, a fashion designer, an interior designer. It’s not just pigeonholing students to use technology; it’s how they think and solve problems that we’re most interested in.”

At CGGS, a fleet of robots, including NAO, DASH, EV3 and SPHERO models, help students learn coding, which Wilkins simplifies as “the language that sits behind all the web interfaces we see, all the apps we use and many of the games we play”. Yet behind the otherworldliness of the “bots” are much broader learning opportunities.

“Through robotics we ask, ‘How are we developing those important transferable skills such as critical thinking and creativity? How are we developing teamwork and organisation?’

“Doing STEM for us is, yes, you will learn some of those techy skills that are important. But underpinning that is a way of seeing and navigating the world that is more important,” says Wilkins.

“Many schools can talk about their laser cutters and 3D printers, their NAO bots and SPHEROs, but on the ground, what does it actually look like, and what does it mean for learning? For us, it’s about developing the thinking of our students.”

At Wesley, the remote learning experience of 2020 underscored for Pearman that technology at its core is a building material, and that young people will find meaningful ways to use it no matter what hurdles appear in their path. The broader benefits make the STEM experience all the more compelling.

“When you have been through our Makerspace or STEM lab during your educational journey at Wesley‚ to solve problems and be exposed to a design-thinking process will set our students up for when they go into the workforce,” Pearman says. ●

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The Ascot Vale-Travancore area has come along in leaps and bounds, and this contemporary townhouse by Architecton is a fine example of the residential reasons why. Airy, admirably appointed and well thought-out, it’s a life-styler fashioned to appeal to investors, forward-thinking single/couples and families alike. There’s a double garage on the lower-ground floor. The ground floor comprises a bathroom, main bedroom with en suite and two minors opening to a terrace. A powder room and open-plan hub adjoining a balcony make up the first floor. Ascend again to a sunny roof terrace affording broad vistas. Executive inhabitants will benefit from easy access to the city and airports. Suits and everyone else can get in on the cafes, bike tracks and community gardens. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: Jellis Craig, Rob Elsom 0411 889 660 Price: $1.1 million-$1.2 million Expressions of interest: close 4pm, April 28

MELBOURNE \ 74/485-489 ST KILDA ROAD 1

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Here’s an opportunity that’ll knock your bobby socks off. This 1950s apartment hits the market in original condition other than a pre-sale spit and polish, so wannabe renovators pretty much get free rein. The Sheridan Gardens complex is the works of architect and one-time lord mayor Bernard Evans. Its mews-style facade and common garden lend it landmark status. Take the stairs or lift to the third and top floor, where you’ll find a bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and spacious lounge. Long windows in the bedroom and lounge make the most of available light.

There’s a car space and storage cage included. It’s an easy walk from the CBD, and Fawkner Park is just through the back gate. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: William Batters, Philippe Batters 0418 992 103 Price: $465,000

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One of a kind in an exclusive address opposite Princes Park, this rejuvenated Victorian (c.1877) will inspire for another 100 years.

Exemplifying quality and thoughtful design, the award-winning living spaces blend harmoniously with a distinguished past for the ultimate executive residence. Extras include C-bus lighting/ security/music, slab and hydronic heating, a/c, ducted vacuum, residential lift, wine room and car lift.

Expressions of Interest Inspect John Morello Lucas Mills Kensington

Tue 04 May 5.00pm As advertised or by appointment 0412 088 757 0410 037 682 8378 0500

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This Landmark Boom-style Victorian property that is rich in period charm and comfort. On a 1077sqm approx. garden allotment in a coveted address, “Rosherville” (c.1888) has an inner beauty far beyond its majestic facade. Surrounded by lawns and gardens ready to be enjoyed this classic home has it all. Consisting of large versatile living spaces, chic kitchen, home office within the grounds, ROW access, hydronic heating, wine cellar and cctv security.

Auction Inspect Land John Morello Erin Smith Kensington

Sat 01 May 2.00pm As advertised or by appointment 1078.0sqm approx 0412 088 757 0422 151 357 8378 0500

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