Monuments

A monument does not necessarily equate to a monumental building.

Monuments are everywhere. Sometimes they are subtle, a rock or a bubbler, only distinguished by their bronze plaque. Sometimes they are gaudy and outlandish, a new Returned Service League (RSL) filled equal parts with memorabilia and pokies machines. Mostly inconspicuous, these types of monuments are so prolific that they appear invisible, or at least unnoticed.

In collaboration with mori and Monash Art, Design, and Architecture (MADA), this exhibition focuses on these particular building-monuments – on clubs, leagues, halls, and pools – to discern the multiple ways meaning and feeling is embedded in these places.

Located at the old Maribyrnong Park Bowls and Croquet Club, visitors are invited to experience the display from within the walls of the clubhouse, a building-monument in its own right. The walls are talking if we listen closely. This show is an attempt to better define monumentality in Australia through understanding the subtlety of how and what we tangibly remember.

Open for a limited time before things change.

Old Time Dance, Memorial Hall built in 1930, Falls Road, Fish Creek by Alan K. Jordan.

This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2026, an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.