The Scandalous Characters

2000 - Scandalous Characters From The Olympic Games

Now for a change of direction, but just as challenging, was The Doncaster Party room. Allen requested a series of ‘panels’ celebrating the coming Olympic games to Sydney. Knowing Peter Von’s sardonic side he wanted them funny, but authentic looking as if taken from old newspaper reports. Delving deep into his old engravings, Peter Von began to put together the set of ‘Scandalous Characters from the Olympic Games of Yesteryear’.

Thus twelve ‘fictitous’ characters from past games in other places in the world were photographically enlarged to fill the walls of the party room. Each was individually captioned, each situation more absurd than the rest but seemingly for real. Peter Von enhanced the silly old engravings with drawings, leaving the best fun for the printed captions, absolutely his forte because of his newspaper background and knowledge of language of the past. The complete set fitted the party room walls perfectly, apparently so successful during the actual games that it was decided to leave them up. They are still there to this day.