Pictures 1961
Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction
Pictures
Objects
Animations
PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.
1949---- 1950---- 1951---- 1952---- 1953---- 1954---- 1955---- 1956---- 1957---- 1958---- 1959---- 1960---- 1961---- 1962---- 1963---- 1964---- 1965---- 1966---- 1967---- 1968---- 1969---- 1970---- 1971---- 1972---- 1973---- 1974---- 1975---- 1976---- 1977---- 1978---- 1979---- 1980---- 1981---- 1982---- 1983---- 1984---- 1985---- 1986---- 1987---- 1988---- 1989---- 1990---- 1991---- 1992---- 1993---- 1994---- 1995---- 1996---- 1997---- 1998---- 1999---- 2000---- 2001---- 2002---- 2003---- 2004---- 2005---- 2006---- 2007---- 2008---- 2009---- 2010---- 2011---- 2012---- 2013---- 2014---- 2015---- 2016---- 2017---- 2018---- 2019---- 2020---- 2021---- 2022---- 2023---- 2024---- 2025---- 2026----
Drain pipes swallow up the creek.
circa 1930. Drawing by Lillian Williamson
Drain pipes in suburbia swallow up the creek. Yabbies and frogs disappear.
EVENTS
1961. 2 January: Oral contraceptives are first sold in Australia.
17 Jan. President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military-industrial complex."
1961. 20 January to early March: Disastrous bushfires affect Western Australia, completely destroying a number of towns.
1961. 25 February: Last electric tram service runs in Sydney.
23 June: Australia signed the Antarctic Treaty.
12 April: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground.
June 16:Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to the West at Paris-Le Bourget Airport while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1961. 12 August: Richmond become the only team since 1922 to fail to score a goal in a VFL/AFL match.
1961. 31 October: Parkes radiotelescope officially opened by the Governor General
30 November: Ansett-ANA Flight 325, a Vickers Viscount aircraft, crashes into Botany Bay shortly after takeoff, killing all 15 on board.
Written by me, Lisa Roberts/Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill), on
20/04/2026
