Home

East Melbourne Historical Society

Drop-down menu

  • People
    • Notable Women
    • WW1 soldiers and nurses
    • WW1 nurses
  • History
    • Milestones
    • Buildings
    • Community
    • People
  • Gallery
    • Maps
    • MMBW plans
    • Abortion battles
    • Bishopscourt
    • Bishopscourt garden
    • Bomb shelter
    • Buildings
    • Cairns Memorial Church
    • Early Melbourne
    • Football
    • Jean Campbell
    • Lanes
    • Margaret McLean
      • Family and home
      • Female suffrage
      • Clippings - Australia
      • Clippings - Britain
      • Clippings - USA
    • Personalities
    • Yarra Park
      • History
      • Desecration
    • Yarra River
  • Catalogue
    • Browse and Search
    • Catalogue table view
    • Site images
  • Society
    • Activities
    • Newsletters
    • Tributes
      • John Barrie Wykes
      • Wynne McGrath
    • News archive
    • Image collection
    • Publications
    • About
Home
    • Home
    • Search
    • Forum
    • Contact

A Tear in the Glass: Nina Stanton's life journey through the fine and decorative arts

Presenter(s): 
Mary Ryllis Clark
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Jun 2019 - 8:00pm
Finish: 
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 - 10:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Nina Stanton was director and curator of local house museum, The Johnston Collection 2000-2008.  When she died in 2009 she left behind an incomplete memoir with a request to writer and close friend, Mary Ryllis Clark, to complete the work.  It was a complicated project.  Nina had written her story in two streams, one followed the events of her life, in the other she selected objects from The Johnston Collection, using them as examples to teach the history of the decorative arts, but at the same time as triggers or prompts to her memory, linking the objects with the events in her life. Nina had completed a rough draft of her life, and she had selected the objects, but their stories were not finished nor had the links between the objects and her life been established. It has taken Mary several years to accomplish her task but she has now brought it to a magnificent conclusion.  The result is ‘a raw depiction of a painful childhood, a troubled life and finally entry to a world in which she found her passion not only for beautiful objects but a capacity to educate others’.

AttachmentSize
2019_jun_mary_ryllis_clark_flyer.pdf754.08 KB
Location map:
Javascript is required to view this map.
  • 689 reads
  • Share this
  • PrintPrint
  • EmailEmail

User login

  • Join EMHS
  • Request new password
  • Privacy
  • Membership
  • About
  • Contact
  • Guidelines