Miss Prosser and The Albino 1998
Memory of a town by the sea
Oil on canvas
81 x 116.4 cm
Signed and dated ’98; also titled on reverse; inscribed (Memory of a town by the sea), 81 x 116, Jun-Jul ‘98
Provenance: Monica Maughan and Rowland Ball collection
Exhibited: Niagara Galleries, Richmond 1998;
Literature: Coastal Arts Discovery Trail Frankston, Produced by Frankston City Council 2006, page 21, illustrated
The setting for Miss Prosser and the albino (Memories of a town by the sea) 1998 is the heavily curtained Sanville House in Playne Street. Miss Prosser drove the bus for an orthopaedic institute in Mt Eliza, wore tweed, and had a somewhat mannish hair style. The albino guest house manager dressed as a male but was, in fact, a woman. In a scene looking west down Playne Street towards the Nepean Highway, the artist has combined these two characters in their assumed camouflaged identities.
Item #7465