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Re-imagining Bottle Alley

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TitleRe-imagining Bottle AlleyDate Created2022CreatorIpswich City CouncilPublisherIpswich City CouncilAcknowledgementIpswich City Council

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DescriptionExpressions of interest opened on 1 February 2022 and closed on 22nd March 2022. Applications were shortlisted and tenders opened on 26th April. Tenders closed on 17th May and evaluation occurred from 18th to 21st May. Contracts were issued and granted in late 2022 and the successful artists provided final designs in early 2023. Bottle Alley was closed from the 18th to 31st March to allow the artists to undertake work on the mural.

The artists were Sydney-based, Sharon Billinge and Karla Hayes from Dharwal land.

EXPLANATION OF DESIGN:
When considering the theme ‘Lost Buildings of Ipswich’ we immediately thought of the layers of development, longing, memory, fleeting personal histories and half-forgotten stories that colour cities, particularly the vibrant central business district that surrounds Bottle Alley.

As evocative as memories of Ipswich's lost buildings are, these recollections rarely occur in high-definition clarity. Instead, we recall fragments of buildings and faces, collages of light, sound and fading moments in days past.

Our painted depiction of Ipswich's built environment aims to be a dreamlike recollection, blurring foreground and background and creating transitions between buildings, streets and moments in time that swell and bloom. We constructed a narrative around the lost buildings that had momentum and flow despite the narrative subject being a seemingly static and inert built environment.

We wanted to give viewers a sense of immediate history. Not far from the mural site, they could stand where the buildings featured in the mural once stood.

The design features five historical buildings that were close to Bottle Alley but are now no more. We’ve provided a mix of different sketches that use the same key locations:

* Whitehouse Cafe
* Street scene showing the Nicholas St covered entrance to Bottle Alley and
the Central Hotel
* Rockman building, formerly Fleischmanns
* Waltons Building, formerly the Beirne building
* Street scene showing a view of Nicholas St in the 1950s including the
Bottle Alley side of Nicholas Street and the Central Chambers building
* Hoopers Store

These buildings were significant fixtures of Ipswich’s city culture and commercial history. Our historical research was completed through Picture Ipswich.

We have included large native flora and fauna to create visual interest and give viewers a break from the angular elements. We included local Ipswich flora and fauna including Plunkett Mallee, Black-necked Stork and a Ficus.

References (online)Behind-the-scenes of Bottle Alley's new mural 'Lost Buildings of Ipswich Central'. [YouTube - Accessed 28.03.2025]Re-imagining Bottle Alley: Lost Buildings of Ipswich Central [YouTube - Accessed 28.03.2025]Shape Your Ipswich - Re-imagining Bottle Alley

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	Ipswich City Council Bottle Alley History TROVE[...]on Mr and Mrs John Fleischmann and family came to Ipswich in Nicholas Street, Ipswich, postcard, c.1906.[...]o public thoroughfare (writes “Red Gum”). Ipswich.qld.gov.au
	[...]an esteemed lady resident of Nicholas Ipswich, and who was responsible for the erection[...]so owned the property opposite to The Ipswich City Council and the Railway Department what is n[...]ers, he having established in associated with the Ipswich HospitalIpswich, which occurred on the 4th of July 1859, and was named the ‘Ipswich Herald’, merging eventually into the ‘[...]
	PICTURE IPSWICH IMAGES Images of the lost buildings of Ipswich can be found on the Picture Ipswich website. Photographs of lower Nicholas street (th[...]Postcard of signal box at railway station, Ipswich, c.1914. Whitehouse Whitehouse’s Café, Ipswich, 1920s. In 1863, F W Whitehouse came to[...]ground. Dalton Bros shop and T C Beirne building Ipswich and obtained jobs with several IpswichIpswich in 1868. The bakery Ipswich’ that reads ‘Any person caught riding a bicyc[...], in Nicholas Street, Clerk’. Source: Picture Ipswich, reference no: qips-2013-3-14-0001 (near the Ipswich Railway Station), as a caterer and baker. Refere[...]icholas street towards Brisbane street, postcard, Ipswich, 1930s. Now the Ipswich Mall (2015), view looking towards Brisbane street. Corner Union and Nicholas Streets, Ipswich early 1960s. Whitehouse Shops on right inc[...]ce No: qips-2011-02-01-0023p Nicholas Street Ipswich procession, between 1925-1935. Procession in Nic[...]may have been of the Prince of Wales who visited Ipswich in 1920. Reference No: qips-2008-06-16-0005
	[...]Nicholas street looking towards Brisbane street, Ipswich 1985.[...]revitalisation of the Ipswich CBD, it would form part of the Ipswich[...]as street, looking South towards Brisbane street, Ipswich 1956.[...]ding); Rockmans; Saba Bros.; The City Silk Store; Ipswich Hardware; and Berry. The buildings were demolished in 1987 as part of the revitalisation of the Ipswich CBD. Saba’s is the only building remaining, cur[...]Nicholas street, Ipswich, postcard 1930s.[...]0007 Nicholas street towards Brisbane street, Ipswich, 1959. Nicholas street, looking south to B[...]mercial Bank of Australia, O’Sullivan Brothers, Ipswich Estate Agency, City Silk Store, Ipswich Hardware (Agent for Lowes Drycleaners, West Moret[...]Nicholas street from corner Union street, Ipswich 1985. This area was[...]lished as part of the 1980s revitalisation of the Ipswich CBD and is now the Ipswich Mall. Reference No: qips-2009-09-16-0105
	Nicholas street looking south towards Union street, Ipswich, c.1985. This area of Nicholas street woul[...]988 and 1987 as part of the revitalisation of the Ipswich T. C. Beirne building and staff, 1920. CBD, to form part of the Ipswich Mall, which would open in August Reference[...]Waltons Department Store (formerly T. C. Beirne); Ipswich Centre; hotel; Coles; and Chandlers. The Trades H[...]o: qips-2009-04-22-0011 T. C. Beirne building, Ipswich 1954. Irish retailer T.C. (Tom) Beirne started a[...]lt in 1902. (Information taken from: R. Buchanan, Ipswich in the 20th century; celebrating 100 years as a c[...]e sold in 1987 and demolished to form part of the Ipswich CBD redevelopment. Reference No: WHD-014-NEG-1005[...]Nicholas street, towards Union street, Ipswich 1985. This part of[...]Nicholas street would form part of the Ipswich Mall. Chandlers, Coles,[...]
	[...]North Australian Hotel, 1 Nicholas street, Ipswich c.1980. The original[...]022 Penney’s Department Store, Nicholas street, Ipswich, 1956. Penney’s opened in Nicholas stree[...]Old North Australian Hotel, 1 Nicholas street, Ipswich c.1980.[...]001 Nicholas street, towards Brisbane street, Ipswich 1985. From bottom left: Miser Jones (thought to h[...]Taylor’s Service Station, Ipswich 1985. Garage at the river end of[...]icholas street, this would become the site of the Ipswich Mall and[...]nwealth Bank temporary premises, Nicholas street, Ipswich, late 1960s. The Commonwealth Banking Corpo[...]
	[...]Ipswich Railway Station, late 1960s. Buildings on corner of Bremer and Nicholas streets, Ipswich early Reference No: qips-2011-02-01-0021[...]e demolished as part of the revitalisation of the Ipswich CBD in 1987. Reference No: qips-2014-07-02-0034[...]The Hooper family have been part of Ipswich businesses since the[...]7-0017p Reid’s Drive-In Hardware, Bell street, Ipswich ca.1985. Uncle Tom’s Pet Cabin is next door. Th[...]6p Postcard of Railway Station, Union street, Ipswich ca. 1906? Reference No: qips-2009-11-13-0013p
	IPSWICH BATHS Ipswich swimming pool (known as “baths”) was opened i[...]wo or three times a week. (Information taken from Ipswich in the Twentieth Century by Robyn Buchanan, 2004:66) Ipswich Baths, 1920s. Ref: whd-004-gpl-0147p Ipswich Baths, 1920s. Ref: whd-003-gpl-0118p Ipswich Baths, 1935. Ref: 1ips-2008-06-16-0002p NORTH[...]f the day and the home Garowie on Whitehill Road, Ipswich. Shenton was Mayor of Ipswich in 1871 and 1889 and was a councillor over a numb[...]hed in 1986, as part of the revitalisation of the Ipswich CBD. North Star Hotel, Brisbane Street, Ipswich, 1890s. Ref: qips-2010-11-11-0008p
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Ipswich City Council
Ipswich City Council
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Ipswich, Queensland
[...]When considering the theme ‘Lost Buildings of Ipswich’ we immediately thought of the layers of develo[...]unds Bottle Alley. As evocative as memories of Ipswich's lost buildings are, these recollections rarely[...]moments in days past. Our painted depiction of Ipswich's built environment aims to be a dreamlike recoll[...]e These buildings were significant fixtures of Ipswich’s city culture and commercial history. Our historical research was completed through Picture Ipswich. We have included large native flora an[...]reak from the angular elements. We included local Ipswich flora and fauna including Plunkett Mallee,[...]
[...]es of Bottle Alley's new mural 'Lost Buildings of Ipswich Central'. [YouTube - Accessed 28.03.2025]
[...]0jWY Re-imagining Bottle Alley: Lost Buildings of Ipswich Central [YouTube - Accessed 28.03.2025]
https://www.shapeyouripswich.com.au/ipswich-central/reimagining-bottle-alley Shape Your Ipswich - Re-imagining Bottle Alley
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