By ALESHA CAPONE
SANDRA Allan likes the way art can show the beauty in all things.
As an artist, photographer and teacher, Ms Allan said much of her inspiration came from the natural world.
“I get a lot of inspiration from mainly Brimbank Park and also places around Keilor,” she said.
Some of Ms Allan’s photos have been on display at Brimbank City Council’s Keilor municipal office since last year, to celebrate the area’s 150th anniversary of local government.
One of the images captures a large rock edifice in Keilor, bathed in blue and red light at different times of day.
“I’m sure so many people have been through the park past the rocks but never really noticed them,” Ms Allan said.
Ms Allan said in addition to art, she was fascinated by the area’s history including the discovery of the ‘Keilor Skull’ in 1940.
Radiocarbon has dated the skull to 13,000 BP and later excavations at Keilor Terrace have uncovered extinct megafauna and stone tools.
“I like to enforce the idea that photography is a really important tool to document the history of time,” Ms Allan said.
Ms Allan said she hade tried many types of art including painting and sculpture, but her present passion is photography.
“For the last five years, I’ve been clicking away in landscapes and random places which look interesting to me,” she said.
As an art teacher at Kurunjang Secondary College in Melton and a founding member of the Western Region Arts Network, Ms Allan said she hoped her images captured Keilor’s past for future residents to appreciate.
“I wanted to present that because it’s really important for newcomers,” she said.
