The City of Banyule Art collection is displayed in a variety of venues throughout Banyule. Current exhibitions at Council's service centres celebrate the large body of works on paper held within the collection. The exhibitions reflect Council's new acquisition policy which was developed in conjunction with the Art Collection Working Group. The policy aims to collect works on paper by Australian artists or those who work in Australia. Most artists work at some time or another on paper - they draw, sketch, make calculations, studies, print or paint on it.
Paper is at once cheap, light, portable and requires little or no preparation to work on.
These works reflect Booth's most popular images of chaos and alienation of the human figure in a chaotic world. He sees both the joy and the futility of being alive. This introduces a new creative realm for the artist. By taking his own soft ground images and recreating them in a reduced scale via a digital process, Arnold is addressing new print technologies through a manipulation of the old. These works are softground etchings and were part of an exhibition of prints based on both the images of clothing and the very fabric of their construction.