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[Scaled Drawing of the Museum Station Mural]
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Accession[UMA-AC-000000110] Preparatory materials for the Melbourne Central (Museum Station) Mural
IdentifierUMA-IT-000064693Extent1 artworkScope and ContentIn 1984 Geoff Hogg created the Museum Station (now Melbourne Central) Mural with two key collaborators, Ilma Jasper and Kay Douglas. Designed as a frieze, it covered the low north east wall of the main thoroughfare. The composition was created over months of onsite drawing and photography at workplaces around Melbourne. In his studio at Trades Hall he combined these images into a narrow composition reminiscent of a film strip. He composed the work so it would be viewed from many angles making use of columns, furniture, and other architectural features on site. The viewer seldom experienced the complete painting so the individual parts formed elements in themselves.
This was the last work he drew with charcoal on the wall entirely by hand using a grid and scaled cartoon. Each phase of the work comprised a particular artistic experience. The full size cartoon, transferred to the wall, was the largest charcoal drawing ever done as a single work. It often had an audience as we slowly created images on the wall, covering the whole surface with carefully hatched black and white shapes. When the time came to add paint I devised a system of light, dark and half tone, beginning with neutral underpainting and methodically building forms into a type of illusory low relief painted into shallow space on a single long picture plane. Source: Melbourne Central Station Melbourne (1984) https://geoffhogg.wordpress.com/selected-wall-paintings/melbourne-central-station-melbourne-1994/
​Scaled drawing of Museum Station mural. It is montage and print on paper. Measurements approximately Dimensions 6.0mx0.40mAccess StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeThis item is only available onlineUnitUMA-AC-110 Unit 0001Copyright StatusIn copyright - publication rights granted
IdentifierUMA-IT-000064693Extent1 artworkScope and ContentIn 1984 Geoff Hogg created the Museum Station (now Melbourne Central) Mural with two key collaborators, Ilma Jasper and Kay Douglas. Designed as a frieze, it covered the low north east wall of the main thoroughfare. The composition was created over months of onsite drawing and photography at workplaces around Melbourne. In his studio at Trades Hall he combined these images into a narrow composition reminiscent of a film strip. He composed the work so it would be viewed from many angles making use of columns, furniture, and other architectural features on site. The viewer seldom experienced the complete painting so the individual parts formed elements in themselves.This was the last work he drew with charcoal on the wall entirely by hand using a grid and scaled cartoon. Each phase of the work comprised a particular artistic experience. The full size cartoon, transferred to the wall, was the largest charcoal drawing ever done as a single work. It often had an audience as we slowly created images on the wall, covering the whole surface with carefully hatched black and white shapes. When the time came to add paint I devised a system of light, dark and half tone, beginning with neutral underpainting and methodically building forms into a type of illusory low relief painted into shallow space on a single long picture plane. Source: Melbourne Central Station Melbourne (1984) https://geoffhogg.wordpress.com/selected-wall-paintings/melbourne-central-station-melbourne-1994/
​Scaled drawing of Museum Station mural. It is montage and print on paper. Measurements approximately Dimensions 6.0mx0.40m
Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeThis item is only available onlineUnitUMA-AC-110 Unit 0001Copyright StatusIn copyright - publication rights grantedProvenance
CreatorHogg, GeoffreyRoleCreator
RoleCreatorContributor
ContributorIlma Jasper
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ContributorKay Douglas
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Date1984
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Source of DescriptionGeoff Hogg
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Hogg, Geoffrey, [Scaled Drawing of the Museum Station Mural] (1984), [UMA-IT-000064693]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 21/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/539554