3 October 2017

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Polo’s exploration of art’s intention SYDNEY-BASED artist Tom Polo spent some time researching the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s collection before painting his impressions on the wall in the gallery’s foyer. His 13 metre painting includes works from the gallery’s collection and will be on display until 26 November, along with an exhibition of portraits from the gallery’s collection and the 2017 National Photographic Portrait Prize from the National Portrait Gallery. Polo says his work is as much about the process as it is the “finished” result. “I think it will ask questions about how our understanding of an artwork changes when we are privy to its process. Do we read the final work differently when we see its creation in increments? “I'll be hanging works from the MPRG collection within the wall painting as a way of exploring fluid relationships of time and space that exist between artworks and ideas.” The gallery’s 1600 works range from the 18th century to the present; old master prints and drawings; works by Arthur Boyd, Russell Drysdale and Charles Blackman; and contemporary works by established and emerging artists. Tom Polo was a finalist in the 2016 National Works on Paper, this year’s Sulman Prize and winner of the 2015 Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. A judge of the scholarship, Archibald Prize winner Fiona Lowry, said his work “illuminates anxieties and failures in a most beautiful way”. The gallery is in Civic Reserve, Dunns Rd, Mornington. Stephen Taylor Stages of creation: Artist Tom Polo’s mixed work on a wall at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornngton, provided the raw materials for this collage by photographer Gary Sissons

Shire eyes ‘port’ land Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au THE state government is being asked to explain the future use of hundreds of hectares of land set aside to cater for the demands of the now abandoned container port at Hastings.

The land around Western Port is now mostly used for agriculture at Hastings, Tyabb, Somerville and Crib Point. Facing a shortage of large industrial sites within 10 years, Mornington Peninsula Shire is about to ask the government to explain what type of development it wants on the swathes of “port-related” land.

The coming shortage of industrial land is outlined in one of two draft strategies presented to councillors last month. Planners believe the Mornington Peninsula has enough land zoned for commercial and retail uses for the next 20 years, but there will be a shortfall for industry.

Their estimate for retail and commercial land includes revitalising and consolidating town centres as well adding in the increasing number of retailers operating in light industrial areas. The planners say the shire has less industrial land - not including that warehoused for port-related purposes

- than neighbouring Frankston, Kingston, Casey and Greater Dandenong. Manufacturing and construction contribute 36 per cent of the shire’s economic output, although manufacturing has recently seen a decline in numbers of employed while the building industry has increased. Continued Page 12

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