THE HERITAGE HOTEL ROCKHAMPTON

15th August. We had the pleasure of having lunch today with a friend of ours, Matt Mullins at the recently renovated Heritage Hotel in Rockhampton. Matt and his business partners, have spent 6 months completely transforming the old place into a fantastic, modern new venue, we were very impressed. They have a great ability to make spaces that people want to be in, lots of wood and soft leather couches, interesting looking chairs, it is a huge place with a balcony right the way round the front, with views of the Fitzroy River. Matt, Andy, Tom and Doug have successfully completed four new pubs in Melbourne in the last five years and both of my exhibitions have been at their venues in Swan Street Richmond; Holliava and the Richmond Club Hotel. Matt’s brother Andy has played quite a part in the early stages of my art career. Jarra was pretty full on, climbing onto the billiard tables and grabbing the balls, grabbing the pool cues, climbing onto tables and jumping off, doing forward rolls on the carpet, he was quite feral really, although Matt was actively encouraging him……